CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Claremont resident Daniel Croteau, who graduated with a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Boston College on May 20, was named by the Boston College Chronicle as one of six “Seniors to Remember,” out of a graduating class of some 2,200 students.
Croteau is a 2015 graduate of Stevens High School in Claremont.
An aspiring registered nurse, Croteau completed clinical placements at Boston’s top hospitals, including Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston’s Children’s Hospital. He also took part in a community health nursing rotation in the Dominican Republic.
He spent a semester abroad at the University of Bergen in Norway where he directed aproject for his environmental psychology class on how a patient’s hospital environment — the lighting, what’s on the walls, the windows — affects his or her healing process and mental state.
During his time at Boston College, Croteau helped fellow classmates and prospective students, serving as a peer advisor in the Connell School of Nursing first-year seminar, a leader in the sophomore retreat for nursing students, and a tour guide for the Office of Undergraduate Admission.
He also helped people beyond the BC campus. For two years, he devoted his spring vacation to volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity, at sites in Tennessee and New Jersey.
This summer, he will take the nursing licensure exam (NCLEX) and plans to work at a hospital.
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