Pinning ceremonies...

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Hi - quick question about guys and pinning ceremonies. Don't mean to offend anyone, but pinning ceremonies (pins, Nightingale lamps, etc.) don't seem very oriented towards the male gender. Do male grads feel goofy at these ceremonies? How silly will I look? My wife is already busting my chops about carrying a lamp, etc...

Our pinning ceremony was the lamest thing I've ever sat through. All it was was a ceremony worshipping Flo Nightingale. Look, that was 150 years ago, nursing is completely different now. I really don't like Flo.

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I am just starting Rn school in Jan. When I took my CNA pre-req we had to go to CNA graduation. The 4 cna classes had to show up; about 100 people. We had to wear scrubs and get our pin on stage. I was told the graduation ceremony was required hours for our certification and I must show (I should have checked with the state first)!The lame things...we had to show up at 8am and "graduation" wasn't until 11:00. It's not as if you need practice walking across a stage.:banghead:

Each class had a valavictorian who had to read a poem at the podium. They were about aging and maturing throughout womanhood.

...and I thought pre-school graduations have gotten over the top. That is just too much...

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The next year everyone must wear anything comfortable,

receive a gift card to a hardware store

and listen to our theme song, "Big Balls" by AC/DC.

:roll :roll

The next year everyone must wear white scrubs or "orderlies uniform"

receive a box of ABD pads and paper tape (for treating that half chewed a**)

and listen to our theme song, "Wild Wild Life" by Talking Heads

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Is it a real pin, with backing optional? Just wondering so maybe the other men (2) in my class and myself can ceremoniously punch it into each other's chests (i.e. awards earned, blood stripes in the Marine Corps) and add a little flavor to the ceremony. Candles and Roses any significance or just for show? So called "traditions" at schools change because some are outdated and offensive. I vote cigars ( Arturo Fuente) song ( Heading out to the Highway, Judas Priest (want to travel)) and some 20 year old single malt. Congrats to all who are geting pinned. Semper Fi

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Specializes in LTC, hospital, office.

I get pinned on the 22 of December and I am really looking forward to it, I have been chosen to be the speaker on behalf of my class, so I am now trying to write me speech. I know the ceremony will be a little cheesy, but I am so excited for myself and my classmates that we made it!

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I have been chosen to be the speaker on behalf of my class, so I am now trying to write me speech.

I hope you proof read your speech first, unless you are going for the popeye thing.:lol2:

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Specializes in LTC, hospital, office.

Hahahaha...thanks :)

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Specializes in Critical Care.

I skipped my 'required' pinning ceremony - and never regretted it.

I knew that requiring the guys to attend a girlie event was just a form of schadenfreudic humiliation. I didn't play.

And the lamp thing: please. The Ivory Tower is SOOOOO enamored with the icon of Florence that they can't even decontruct her reality from a carefully created image. Florence would be APPALLED that the lady with the lamp stint is the lasting image so many people allegedly devoted to her vision put forth. She almost always shunned publicity about her Crimean days and there is considerable evidence that she was even embarrassed by it, having asked for an investigation that, to her horror, whitewashed the whole deal.

Florence would NOT approve. Indeed, she didn't approve of that image, even in her own lifetime.

~faith,

Timothy.

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Yes, the pinning thing is def. dumb and uncalled for. I will probably be there, but i think it should be less in tune with the female gender. Then again, our uniforms (all white with fregin pleats in the back?) and all white shoes...the whole nursing profession needs to recognize that NURSE does not equal FEMALE anymore. I realize the tradition, but females in the military do not have to shave their heads. Yes, they do wear the camo with no make-up, but still...I feel my nursing program is very old-fashioned, and not progressive. But i'm almost done, so who cares. The pinning ceremony is insane. I am going to a college, not some hospital school of nursing where the girls are dormed up and not allowed contact by the opposite sex. I don't see physical therapists or any other fregin medical field that goes to a university having to "raise money" for a pinning ceremony. I personally could care less if I get "pinned", and believe it or not, some of the females feel the same way. Those pins are overpriced anyways, and I don't want one. Just my opinion.

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Specializes in I got 2 actual delivery cases..

i am already done with my pinning ceremony and im so glad i only got a pin and a lamp, not a cap. lol.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Cardiac.

I've still got 1.5 years to go, but reading this great thread got me thinking ahead.

I sure won't enjoy all the "girlie" things, but I will enjoy being with my classmates and sharing one last happy time together.

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My wife says the whole thing reminds her of the Girl Scout ceremonies she had to do. Asked me if we get a sash to put our pins on...

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