Pinning HELP!!

[LUVtxNursing]

Ok, my school does not have a pinning ceremony, which I think is terrible, but we cannot do anything about it now. I am one of the class officers and we decided to buy the pins and pin everyone right before we take our class photo on Wednesday. We have also put the Nightengale pledge on cards to hand out to everyone. Now, the pins we bought are the gold "RN" lapel pins. My question is, can we actually wear those just to take a picture since we are not technically RN's yet? We just kinda threw this together in the last 2 weeks and we don't want to do anything majorly wrong. Any input would be greatly appreciated!!

:yeah::yeah:CONGRATS TO ALL THOSE GRADUATING!!!:yeah:

[futurecnm]

My pin has my school's emblem on it and we were given the option of adding RN or BSN attached to it by a tiny chain. We had to buy our own pins and they were 40 something dollars for the cheapest ones.

Wow, 40 is a lot. Ours were also pretty expensive 20 something for the cheapest all the way up to hundreds. Someone in our class also designed her own and a few of us bought that one as well it was only about $15 and really cute.

[nursegreen]

My pinning was on May 1st and graduation on May 3rd. The pin I was pinned with said RN. These were the pins that the college provided to us. We did have the option to purchase our school pin but the cheapest was in the $40's all the way up over $200. Many of us could not afford that at this time especially with boards in the future ($405) in Florida. Maybe later we can go back and purchase the school pin since it is a nursing tradition. The college I attended still provides the pinning ceremony for us which is nice considering a lot of schools are doing away with it. I personally feel that the pinning ceremony is more personal, traditional, and they should not do away with it. To me it symbolizes a Right of Passage for nurses.

[nightie-night nurse]

i just graduated:), and my school forbade from doing a pinning ceremony. the winter graduates are allowed to do one and participate in the graduation ceremony in the spring. but the spring graduates were informed that under no circumstances were we to plan a pinning ceremony because we had a district sanctioned graduation ceremony. our instructors told us that if we did have a pinning ceremony without the approval of the school, no instructors would be allowed to show up.

they held the pins that we paid for until after hesi, and then many of us had an instructor pin us in the hallway that say after the test.

it's rotten!!

[suanna]

You can wear a pin that says "King of the World" if you want to. Just don't try to practice as a RN until you are one- and don't wear the pin in a health care setting. Schools that have pinning ceremonies hold them before the graduates pass boards and become officialy RNs. You aren't doing anything different.