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‘I Always Wanted to Help People’
Nearing Age 60, Jane Marozzi Finally Has Her BSN in Hand
“I said to my husband, ‘why am I doing this? I’m 59.’ And he said, ‘you wanted this. Keep going.’ So there were professional reasons, but a lot of personal ones too.”
When Jane Marozzi says she’s been looking forward to earning a bachelor of science in
nursing degree for a long time, she means
Because in her case, the BSN isn’t just the cul- mination of four years of college, but a highlight of a career that has spanned almost four decades.
Still, like other, more traditional graduates of area programs, her interest in a nursing career started early.
“I have a picture of me with a stethoscope at Christmas time when I was little,” Marozzi recalled. “I felt a natural draw to the field.”
So, after high school, she enrolled in a three-year diploma program at St. Francis Hospital School of Nursing in Hartford, Conn. and started her nursing career at its affiliate hospital, now operated by Trinity Health Of New England, in 1985.
Thirty-eight years later, she is celebrating earning her BSN at Bay Path University.
“I always wanted to help people,” she said of her long career, spent exclusively at St. Francis, first on the cardiac floor and then in maternity.
“Throughout that time, I got married and had chil- dren,” she said, but throughout her career, “I always wanted to get my BSN. After my parents had passed in 2018, I said, ‘I’m going to do it.’ Bay Path gave me such great flexibility, to be able to do it online five
Even after many fulfilling years in nursing, Jane Marozzi’s dream was to earn a BSN, so she did.
it.
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