{"id":35944,"date":"2010-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/01\/21\/nursing-students-get-white-coats-at-nightingale-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2010-01-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T06:00:00","slug":"nursing-students-get-white-coats-at-nightingale-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2010\/01\/21\/nursing-students-get-white-coats-at-nightingale-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing students get white coats at Nightingale ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><TABLE border=\"0\" width=\"250\" cellspacing=\"10\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Nightengale110.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"picture disc.\"><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:7pt; line-height:150%;\">Rebecca Keating-Lefler, Ph.D., back row fifth from left, and nursing dean Virginia Tilden, D.N.Sc., back row far right, with the &#8220;non-traditional&#8221; students of this year&#8217;s first-year nursing class.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE>Nearly 50 first-year UNMC College of Nursing students were inducted into the nursing program on Friday evening at the Nightingale White Coat Ceremony in Omaha.<\/p>\n<p>The event, sponsored by UNMC Alumni Relations and Gammi Pi at-large chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, drew a large crowd that nearly filled one of the 220 seat amphitheaters in the Sorrell Center.<\/p>\n<p>The students received white coats, took the Florence Nightingale Pledge and heard from:<br \/>\n<UL><LI>Virginia Tilden, D.N.Sc., dean of UNMC College of Nursing;<br \/>\n<LI>Rebecca Keating-Lefler, Ph.D., president of the college&#8217;s alumni association;<br \/>\n<LI>Connie Miller, Ph.D., 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