CHARLESTON - Lakeview College of Nursing recently held a ceremony to recognize students who achieved the transition into clinical practice within their bachelor’s degree nursing program.
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CHARLESTON - Lakeview College of Nursing recently held a ceremony to recognize students who achieved the transition into clinical practice within their bachelor’s degree nursing program. Among the students who received a white coat during the celebration was Delaney Lockard of Mendota, who attends Lakeview’s Charleston Campus.
Lockard was one of over 30 students from Lakeview’s Charleston and Danville campuses who participated in the event at the I-Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign. A large number of family members and friends also attended.
The college’s faculty, also wearing white coats, cloaked the students with their new garments. Lanette Stuckey, Dean of Nursing at Lakeview College of Nursing, spoke about the symbolism that the white coat represents during the event. She explained that the white color of the coat represents compassionate caring and the student’s receipt of the jacket demonstrates a commitment to this compassionate and humanistic care.
“Historically, the white coat ceremony has been reserved for a college of medicine as a way of welcoming new physicians into professional practice,” Stuckey said. “The new physicians would receive their white lab coats upon graduation in recognition of their accomplishment.”
Within the nursing community, the right of passage into professional practice has traditionally been symbolized by graduates receiving their college’s official nursing pin. Although this tradition continues, the nursing profession, as well as overall healthcare, has changed, she explained.
Members of Lakeview’s Student Government Association led the Nightingale Nursing Pledge and the White Coat Oath. Students recited verses that call for practicing the profession to the best of their ability as well as to promote, advocate and strive to protect the health, safety, and rights of the patient.
Lakeview College of Nursing offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. It is a single-purpose, private institution that has specialized in nursing education in the Danville area since 1894. Lakeview began offering a cooperative program with Eastern Illinois University in Charleston in the fall of 2001.
