Do you have a graduation AND a pinning?

[krenee]

I'm not graduating for awhile, but still curious . . . our school has graduation and pinning ceremony. I don't see the need to go to two ceremonies. I was wondering if this is common? I think I'll go to the pinning but not the graduation. Especially with dragging the families out for these events, I don't really get it.

Anyone else?

Kelly

[KyPinkRN]

I am graduating from a small (300 students) Catholic college that was originally a hospital run program. We will have both a pinning and a graduation ceremony on the same day. Our pinning will be at breakfast time with a meal being served, with just students and faculty, and the graduation ceremony is held at a Catholic church for all our families to attend. Only 7 more days!!!:balloons:

[suejara]

Lincoln Tech New Britain: July 2007 eve graduation

We had to wear white scrubs. We almost had to buy our pins (they had to be the same, school chose an expensive kind) ... but our objections were heard. They never reheorificed who was standing in line first second last etc, or whether we were going to say the nurse pledge in unison. The whole graduation lasted a little over an hour (they book multiple graduations the same day, in the same room, no refreshments provided).

Hope your graduation goes better.

[StudentNurseAbby]

Yes. We have pinning Friday after noon and graduation is Saturday morning.

[elizabells, BSN, RN]

Ours was a little different, as it was a direct-entry grad program. We had a "white coat" ceremony, not to be confused with the med-school type. Since NPs wear white coats, we were given them to signify the start of our graduate studies after completing the BSN portion of the program. We didn't receive pins - you only get those if you finish the MSN portion, which I have decided not to do. I think we could have gone to the university commencement if we chose, but I don't really remember hearing anything about it. The medical campus of my school is 50 blocks from the main campus anyway, so we weren't really part of the same school, in a way.

[Reno1978, BSN, RN]

My nursing school convocation / pinning is on Friday and my university graduation is on Saturday.

[BeeSN]

We have both, and so far, I'm planning on going only to the pinning, unless we are forced to go to graduation. Or my parents or the school make me. I know some schools, but I'm not sure about mine, won't give you your diploma unless you attend graduation. It all depends on your Nursing instructors, your school, and your family preferences.