Went to a pinning ceremony...I was disgusted...

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We raise funds throughout our 2 years and give what is left over to the next class.

luvmy3kids

675 Posts

Not everyone cares about pinning.

I am not a sentimental type. If I could have, I would have totally skipped our pinning. I did, in fact, skip my LPN pinning and graduation. As I did for my four year graduation (other degree).

Does having no regard for a pinning ceremony make me value my education and hard work any less? No. I graduated at the top of my class. I worked very hard for my RN, personally, professionally, and academically. Honestly, my reward is just doing it and being done. I don't need cheesy music, cookies, full-of-themselves professors and fellow students making pat speeches full of cliches and silliness. I certainly don't need to make some stupid pledge to lead a life of purity, assist the physician in his work, yada, yada, yada, excuse me while I barf blood out my eyeballs.

If you want to have a nice pinning ceremony, fine. Do it. Organize it, raise or donate money for it, and carry it off with a bang. But don't expect everyone to think that is grand. Don't require us all to attend, or fund it. Not all of us need or want the pat on the back. Don't think just because we don't go for that sort of thing means that we don't have any regard for our career or ourselves. I paid cash for my schooling, worked full time, was a mother and wife, and slept very little for the last year. I have a lot of regard for myself and career. I have very little regard for ceremony. I would rather spend that time with my family, not with faculty and classmates, eating cookies, listening to badly written speeches, and walking down the aisle to terrible music. Yuck.

Sorry, not trying to rain on your parade--just trying to give another perspective. Not all of us live for nurisng school. It wasn't the best/most difficulty/most rewarding time of my life. It just was a time.

I'm happy to be done, but I'd rather celebrate privately than publicly. Maybe that's what bothers me; I'm a very private person, and public displays such as this make me so uncomfortable. That I am expected to participate and enjoy it makes it even worse for me.

I don't see why this post is really necessary. If you don't care about it, fine, then don't go. But if you decided to go, you should be respectful enough, to the students, staff, school and nursing program to at least dress up and look nice. There is nothing wrong with being proud of your accomplishment and wanting to show a little pride by celebrating in style.

And commenting on the food issue, I don't think anyone expects food, but some crummy Walmart cookies probably isn't the only thing they could have come up with. Even a nice cake and punch is not very expensive. I hope you have a nicer ceremony with it comes your time Hopefull. Good luck.

Jen

MySimplePlan

547 Posts

I don't see why this post is really necessary. If you don't care about it, fine, then don't go. But if you decided to go, you should be respectful enough, to the students, staff, school and nursing program to at least dress up and look nice.

The post was her opinion, and though it may not be the most popular view, it's still her opinion, and still valid. She stated her points very succinctly, and it gave me something to think about, another view. Everyone has something valuable to contribute, and she wrote a very thoughtful post.

I don't feel she was disrespectful, or that her post indicated she was attending looking less than her best. Something tells me she wouldn't do that. And wasn't her attendance at the ceremony mandatory?

Anyway, different opinions are there to make us think, to consider other ideas than our own. For me, it's good to hear another side, because I can get wrapped up in my own pretty quickly.

PN143

21 Posts

I just graduated from LPN school. Our pinning ceremony was very nice. We elected class officers during our second semester of school. We, as a class decided that each student would pay class dues of $10 a month and put it into a bank account which the class treasurer was in charge of. By the end of our 16 month program we had plenty of money for our pinning ceremony, gifts for our instructors, class t-shirts, etc.

Specializes in Ortho, Neuro, Detox, Tele.

As far as I'm aware..it's not the idea..but the extra cost that sometimes brings us down....I mean to buy a special white uniform for it (120 bucks), candles for lamp lighting(25 bucks), graduation petitions(30 bucks), etc. etc....I'd be happier if I could just wear something professional and similar to it. But for us guys, our instructors are weird...can't wear a tie for LPN(LPN pinning is similar...professional clothes.), as you wouldn't wear a tie as a nurse....can't have black slacks cause black looks "dirty", etc...I dunno. I just want out already!!!!

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