We were told yesterday that we're required to wear white scrubs for our 45 minute pinning ceremony.
As students, we are required to buy and wear ceil blue scrubs.
They want us to buy a set of white scrubs to wear for this short, silly ceremony.
I, being the way I am, questioned this idiocy and pointed out that a lot of the students in my class can barely afford to go to school and still feed their kids and pay their bills, and firmly averred my deep disdain for making us buy these "wear once" scrubs. On top of $1300 tuition + books this semester, $50 "pinning fee", $139 BON application fee, $50 HESI fee, $20ish fingerprint fee, $200+ NCLEX fee.....I've had enough.
Am I just being a fartknocker about this, or do any of you see this as stupid, pointless, and lacking concern or awareness about the financial woes of nursing students? I'm in a better position to afford this than most of my classmates because I had savings from past employment and my wife has a good-paying nursing job.
Some of my classmates, I have had to buy their meals at the stupid "end of semester clinical group gathering at the most expensive restaurant we can find, where we give the employed instructor the gift we managed to scrounge up $10/ea to buy" because some kissass, or often, the instructor, picks PF Changs instead of Shoneys.
It wouldn't be so bad if any of the hospitals here allowed whites (most of them have color-enforced dress codes), but to add ONE MORE expense, to be used for one stupid ceremony...well, it aggravated me.
The instructor, more used to meek and mild students who don't question the status quo, blinked about 10 times and then informed me I should start a petition to be given to the director of our program.
Perhaps for people who enter the nursing profession because of a lifelong dream of becoming a nurse, the pinning ceremony would be a poignant moment in their academic lives. It marks the realization of their dreams. But people who enter nursing for other reasons would see this event as insignificant. I think it's safe to assume that most, if not all nursing schools hold this ceremony as part of the nursing program so this is an expense that we should all factor into our overall expense, no matter how frivolous we think it is. Then maybe this is something one should also consider when choosing a nursing school.
As they say in the Philippines (loses a lot in translation): if you want something, you'll find all the means to get it. If you hate something, you'll find all the reasons to avoid it.
We were told yesterday that we're required to wear white scrubs for our 45 minute pinning ceremony.
As students, we are required to buy and wear ceil blue scrubs.
They want us to buy a set of white scrubs to wear for this short, silly ceremony.
I, being the way I am, questioned this idiocy and pointed out that a lot of the students in my class can barely afford to go to school and still feed their kids and pay their bills, and firmly averred my deep disdain for making us buy these "wear once" scrubs. On top of $1300 tuition + books this semester, $50 "pinning fee", $139 BON application fee, $50 HESI fee, $20ish fingerprint fee, $200+ NCLEX fee.....I've had enough.
Am I just being a fartknocker about this, or do any of you see this as stupid, pointless, and lacking concern or awareness about the financial woes of nursing students? I'm in a better position to afford this than most of my classmates because I had savings from past employment and my wife has a good-paying nursing job.
Some of my classmates, I have had to buy their meals at the stupid "end of semester clinical group gathering at the most expensive restaurant we can find, where we give the employed instructor the gift we managed to scrounge up $10/ea to buy" because some kissass, or often, the instructor, picks PF Changs instead of Shoneys.
It wouldn't be so bad if any of the hospitals here allowed whites (most of them have color-enforced dress codes), but to add ONE MORE expense, to be used for one stupid ceremony...well, it aggravated me.
The instructor, more used to meek and mild students who don't question the status quo, blinked about 10 times and then informed me I should start a petition to be given to the director of our program.
Get out of my wallet, damn you. *shakes fist*
I'm so sorry that you are looking at the effort that the nursing program is going to in order to provide you with a ceremony to mark the occasion of completing your studies, in such a negative light.
It's not a stupid ceremony...it means a great deal to some of us, in fact, most of us.
Why don't you petition the school to allow you to skip the ceremony? That way you won't to ruin it for everyone else that wants a nice one.
Then why don't you petition the school and tell them that wearing a robe and a mortarboard at graduation is just a waste.
It would be a sad, pitiful, world if every tradition at every school that had been practiced for many, many years was simply, done away with.
Why don't schools just ditch homecoming games during football season, New York just stop the parades on Thanksgiving and New Year's Day...why don't we get rid of the silly inauguration hoopla, can't they just swear him in, in the oval office in private...why the public affair?
Oh, and let's ditch that long white gown at weddings..hardly anyone is a virgin anymore anyway and that style of wearing a long dress is left over from the Victorian era...aren't we way past that? Let's do away with birthday parties and singing that silly song...after 100 years, it starts to get old.
I guess I'm a person that tries to live my life looking for what makes it BEAUTIFUL than trying to find the pain in every corner.
I think the school should change the ceil blue scrubs to the same scrubs they use on pinning
I really dont think there is even an issue. my school forced us to buy from dove apparel, i spent about 95 dollars for my scrubs
I work as a SECRETARY making secretary ..not even salary ...wage
I pay about 700 dollars in utilities alone every month (doesnt count mortgage, long island taxes) ...and I make "too much" to qualify for aid
If my school said we all need to wear leopard print scrubs on pinning day because its tradition I am all for it ..it beats me having to buy a new outfit for the ceremony anyway. Did you want to wear your ceil blue scrubs? You are probably going to wear your pinning scrubs to work anyway ..every facility has a preference on color
Can I ask why YOU wanted to be a nurse?
You pretty much nickle and dimed every expense including the NCLEX which I LOL'ed to
Dude dont contribute to the class collection for the professor
I wouldve been with you (along with everyone else) if it was something like that
I don't think it's right to criticize the OP for his opinions.
Honestly, sometimes nursing school does things that seem like a waste of cash, and as someone who loves nursing and has been wanting it for years, I find the pinning ceremony to be a little over the top.
I like a little tradition, but why does it matter what you wear? I think it's good to question things and challenge the system if you disagree with it. The nursing program should serve the students, not blindly make rules that don't serve their best interests. He has a right to his opinion.
To question his love or longing to be a nurse based on the fact that he is questioning the pinning ceremony seems really presumptuous to me.
I'll say again, it's not the ceremony itself that I have a problem with. I can take it or leave it, but I don't hate it or anything.
My problem is solely with the expectation/requirement to wear a set of scrubs that are:
1. Different than our regularly required uniform.
2. Only going to be used ONCE for a 45 minute ceremony. Hospitals in the area don't allow white scrubs for nurses.
3. A waste of money, especially for poor students and especially in these hard economic times, added to all the other exorbitant expenses associated with college and graduating and sitting for license.
4. An unnecessary expense being pushed under the guise of "tradition".
Bortaz - I thought the pinning ceremony was too expensive and - to be honest - a little cheesy at my school. Wilted carnations, graduation robes, sappy music and mandatory pins I know I will NEVER wear again. Because it wasn't mandatory for graduation, I skipped it.
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I am sorry I thought you said they were silly and asinine.