On 3rd
July, at the closing ceremony of the Licentiate Degree Courses, the Nursing
School of Coimbra (ESEnfC) celebrated the graduation of 305 new nurses. This
ceremony was full of emotion, both because of the end of a four-year training
period and the beginning of a new journey: integration into the labour market.
Also present in this ceremony were teachers, non-teaching staff members of the ESEnfC and closest friends and relatives.
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After the celebration of a mass –
with a strong collaboration of the students of the ESEnfC (chants, readings,
offertory…) –, which filled the New Cathedral in Coimbra, the official closing
ceremony took place in the Pavilhão
Multidesportos, made available by the City Hall of Coimbra.
During her speech, the president of
the Directing Board of the ESEnfC, Professora Maria da Conceição Bento, stated
that the newly graduates will continue to contribute to the confirmation of the
School in the national and international scene, as a centre for quality in
education, research and innovation in health care and Nursing.
The president of the Student
Association, André Patrício, also referred to the ESEnfC has an institution
which trains “the best nurses in the world” and he also said that the motto now
is “fight” for a job.
Another important message of
Professora Conceição Bento was that “in a time of financial constraint, we all
want cheaper health care”. However, “there will be no quality in health if
citizens are not provided with the necessary health care to meet their basic
health needs”.
The president of the Directing Board
of the ESEnfC mentioned that she hopes that we don’t waist one of the greatest
goods available in our society with regards to the health area: its qualified
human resources, and that it gives them the opportunity to prove their acquired
professional skills.
During this ceremony, the Nursing graduates swore to perform with competence, dignity and humanitarian sense the Nursing care, respecting the ethical and deontological principles of the profession. Assume the compromise of being nurses. And congratulations. We wish them a great future.
