Bowling Green, Ky. -A celebration of nursing will be held May 4 at Western Kentucky University.

The first “Nurses Living History Tea” will begin at 5 p.m. at the Downing University Center South Lawn. The event is free and open to past, present and future nurses.

Living history characters will include Florence Nightingale, who founded the nursing profession; Mary Breckenridge, a Kentucky native who founded professional education for midwifery; Virginia Henderson, a nurse theorist; Ora Porter, Bowling Green’s first registered nurse; and Emma Mildred Watts, a Kentucky nurse missionary to Nigeria.

The event, which will help kick off National Nurses Week May 6-12, is sponsored by WKU’s Department of Nursing and WKU’s Associate Degree of Nursing Program.

The “Nurses Living History Tea” also will help celebrate WKU’s Centennial, the 100th anniversary of the Kentucky Nurses Association and the 40th anniversary of WKU’s associate degree program in nursing.

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For information, contact Mary Kovar at (270) 745-8768.

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