I'll be graduating from my ADN program in May 2005, and need advice on our class pins. I'm the class president, and the officers get to decide what our fundraising money is spent on (we have about $1400). We're required to buy our own pins, and the cost is between $50 and $75. Maybe I'm about to be a blasphemer, but I don't see what the big deal is about the pin; it has the year our program was founded on it, not our graduating year, and i've never seen a single nurse wearing his or her class pin. we have a lot of students who are stretched financially, and I'd rather see them be able to put that money toward NCLEX-RN fees or something. We're considering subsidizing the cost of the pins (or part of the cost) with a good chunk of the money. What do you all think? And should we push the issue about being required to have them? A few students have complained to me about it.
I won't even get into the brouhaha over white dresses and caps for the ceremony.
