Pinning Ceremony Speech

[jgoforth2017]

I have attached my speech for pinning ceremony Thursday September 14th and was wondering if anyone would review it and leave some constructive criticism. Thank you all in advance!

Good evening everyone, I would like to thank you all for coming to here tonight to celebrate in this milestone with us. The past two years have been the best and worst of our lives and without you all we would not be where we are today.

Nursing School… They say it is hard and that no one knows what it's like unless they have been there, and for the most part this is true. No one can understands how your mind completely changes the way it thinks. You begin to think critically and use the Nursing process for everything. It becomes second nature. No one understand how excited you get when you successfully get that first IV and how you feel you could bust when you pack a wound for the first time. No one gets excited when you tell them you got to suction a trach. That is no one but your nursing school friends.

What they don't tell you is your family will understand. Your family understands they don't need their blood pressure checked a thousand times a day and they are tired of having their hearts and lungs assessed for the millionth time this month. They understand they have no clue what you are talking about when they ask what you're studying. They also understand you don't ask a nursing student how their clinical day went while eating supper. But most importantly they understand you are not getting your associate's degree in Nursing, you just got your associate's degree in Nutcase.

On behalf of my class, I would like to thank Dr. Rager, Ms. Dorris, Ms. Everly, Ms. Johnston, Ms. Pape, Ms. Iliohan, and Ms. Ewing for teaching us the building blocks of becoming a nurse. Without you, we would have no clue what autonomic dysreflexia is or how to treat it. We would not have learned how to regulate a heparin drip. With your help we learned the difference between a calcium channel blocker and a beta blocker. From learning about birthing babies to learning how to communicate with patients; all these skills are what have formed us and prepared us to become nurses. And to Ms. Robin, thank you for being you. For being a smiling face with a friendly hello� when we step through the doors. For having the answer to all of our questions or finding what the answer is. Thank you for listening and always being here for us. The instructors and Ms. Robin deserve a huge thank you, for believing in us and pushing us further than we ever thought possible; and for being our support system through some of the hardest times we have yet to encounter.

To our families and friends, thank you for being there, or not being there, when we needed to study and had to lock ourselves away. Thank you for being our patients and letting us practice our skills or communication techniques on you. Lastly, thank you for believing in us and standing behind us through this journey and being a shoulder to cry on when we needed it most.

The ladies behind me are not my class mates. They are some of the best friends I have encountered. They know what you mean when you think you cannot go any further. We have laughed together, cried together, studied together, and had many mental break downs together. Above all, we have had each other for encouragement and support when we each needed it most.

Ladies… WE MADE IT!! We are one step away from having two powerful and very meaningful Letters behind our names. R.N. I wish you the best of luck as the journey continues.

[RestingNurseFace]

jgoforth2017 said:

But most importantly they understand you are not getting your associate's degree in Nursing, you just got your associate's degree in Nutcase.

PLEASE rethink this. You are an aspiring healthcare professional, and mental health is a component of our jobs.

[CardiacDork, MSN, RN]

You need to ask Obama for advise, bro.

JK.

I think your speech is generic and acceptable, minus the nutcase part.

Other than that, yeah it's alright.

[amoLucia]

Thank you to both PPs. I too was a bit miffed at the Nutcase reference.

It diminishes the value of the degree - and I was a grad of an Assoc degree program. Not funny.

It also makes a dig at pts with mental health issues. NOT FUNNY.

OP - I think you meant to put a little humor into your speech, but your approach was hitting low. NOT funny.

Generic (good word) and adequately satisfactory speech.

And since this is social media, any readers who recognize your school's staff will know who you are. So your anonymity for AN is pretty much pfft.