What does your school have you wear to the Pinning Ceremony?

[KathyVandy]

Hi Everyone!

I'm the Co-President for our SNA here at American River College in Sacramento, CA. I'm trying to research what each School of Nursing has the students wear for their Pinning Ceremony and how much you have to pay for it. What do you guys wear to your pinning? Right now we wear our clinical scrubs to pinning. The same ones we've been in clinical in for the past 2 years. :-/ We are trying to change that but need to do a bit of research.

I'd love it if some recent grads from any Northern California nursing schools could respond! :) Sacramento City College, Sierra College, Delta Community College, Yuba College, De Anza College, Cabrillo College, Chabot College, Sacramento State, Chico State, Stanislaus State... we would love to get your input! Thanks!

[BuckyBadgerRN, ASN, RN]

I think fewer and fewer do, but keep in mind I did not graduate yesterday!

White scrubs to clinical? I did not think any schools did that anymore.

[LDAthleteNurse, BSN, RN]

Our attire is dressy. I have a beautiful dress picked out for the occasion. Perfect reason to get all dolled up and purrrdy 😗😗

[mrsboots87]

I am in AZ, but my school requires we wear whites to pinning. Another school in the same community college district required solid navy scrubs. I like the solid navy better because many hospitals in the area have moved to uniform colors for nurses, of which most are navy. And then for those without dress code the navy can still be worn. While white can be worn again, it is not the most practical color to wear in this profession.

[muirite]

Depend on where you work. Where I work we must wear the uniforms that they issue to us.

[Tenebrae, BSN, RN]

Formal dress, graduation robes and trencher

[Graduation2016]

My school's first class to graduate this past summer had someone made scrubs for everyone, they were all the same. The only thing is that they were pants and a top and most of them wore their hair down. I always liked the classical white scrub dress with the white stockings and the bun. We finish this December but pinning is not until June so we still haven't decided what were doing yet.

[nursephillyphil, BSN, RN]

we just dressed up, slacks and shirt for the guys and dresses for the girls. and this was just in 2013

[Nature_walker, ASN, BSN, RN]

We will wear our school uniforms for pinning. Black scrub pants and our white scrub tops. I'll graduate in May and I can't wait to get my pin!

[sailornurse]

This is in New Mexico. The LPN program I recently taught at required white pant scrubs. They also do a capping (which I think is archaic) & the only problem is that most wear the hair, long/down and that is NOT how you wear a cap in reality if anyone still wears one (wore mine one year, 1979-80). The hair down reminds me of the Halloween sexy nurse costumes, IMO. The BSN program I taught at for 10 years used to allow dresses but many would show up in cocktail/revealing/too short, wearing flip-flops, tattoos showing on arms, backs, and other inappropriate clothing, they now wear the graduation gown, no mortarboards. No matter how we instructed student on the dress, "what you would wear to a wedding" & explaining it is a formal/professional attire, & even with dress rehearsals the day before to evaluate the clothing, 1 or 2 would show up with teeny little dresses, plus they might sit on a stage facing the audience!

[JessRN89]

In my program here in so cal we had to wear white scrub dress and white tights with all white shoes and hair up with the our nursing caps. We all had to purchase everything separate on our own. The avg price of the dresses for us were $20-30. Luckily a lot of the previous graduating classes donate their dresses...they're only worn once. The men just wore their white uniform that we had to wear for clinical throughout the program.

[07courtney1993]

At my school in NV, they make us wear all white dresses with white lab coats. It looks very classy, unlike the scrubs you've worn all throughout clinical.

[JJ1994]

We're wearing white dresses with the tights and cap. I think it looks so much more professional and commands more respect than scrubs and I'm really excited to get to wear it.