White Coat Ceremony

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My sister-in-law is currently enrolled in a DNP program and I have been invited to attend her White Coat Ceremony. I've never attended one, and I need suggestions for an appropriate gift for her. Any ideas?

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We had a capping ceremony at the start of our junior year of college (when we started clinicals) ... and a pinning ceremony just before graduation. The pinning ceremony was separate from the actual graduation because the graduation was university-wide.

There is usually a hooding ceremony for PhD's (in many disciplines) in which the graduate receives his/her hood that is added to the academic robes. I always regretted that I had to miss my hooding ceremony.

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When I went to orientation for my BSN to PhD program several days were "general" orientation for all the students going into the graduate school of biomedical sciences which included all kinds of lab sciences, MDs, medical humanities (didn't know this was a degree before then), and Nursing PhDs. We heard that the medical students would be having a "white coat" ceremony which sounded cool but I assumed it was an MD exclusive thing.

Fast forward to this year and my husband is starting an NP program (MSN). Turns out they have a white coat ceremony so, interesting.

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On 7/29/2019 at 4:58 PM, juan de la cruz said:

Well, I'm old enough to know that we nurses had our own traditions that predated the White Coat Ceremony for decades...pinning and capping ceremonies anyone?

Still have those too ?

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