Who pays for your pin?

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Specializes in Emergency; med-surg; mat-child.

We're having a debate about who should pay for pins. Do students? The school? A nursing club? How does it work at your school?

I know there are lots of threads about the actual ceremony and where to get the pins, but I didn't see much on who buys. I only did a quick search, though, sorry if there's already one out there!

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Specializes in Cath Lab & Interventional Radiology.

I think that at my school the pins are included in the extra fees that are lumped into the tuition. Bottom line is that the student pays.

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

We had to pay for our own, if we wanted one.

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In LPN school, the pin was included in with books, tuition, and supplies. Essentially, the student paid for the pin. In RN school, we are told up front that the student must purchase their own pin, so I'm using the one I received when I became an LPN. I don't even use this pin. It sits in a box in my closet. I will never purchase another pin!

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Specializes in Emergency; med-surg; mat-child.

So if you could have your pin paid for by being a member of an organiztion and doing a few hours of volunteer work a semester (maybe 10), would you do it? No fees, just attending 2-3 meetings and doing the volunteering. Would that be worth it to you, if you wanted a pin or to go to pinning?

Thanks, guys, this is really helpful.

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I think it would be worth it. We had to pay "dues" of $5 a month starting second semester. Most people didn't pay their dues monthly. When they had $$ they just turned it in to the treasurer. By the end it was enough to cover everyones $60 pin. We had to order ours through the university book store and it came out of the class account...

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Considering that my pin has been sitting in a box for the last 3 years, it wouldn't be worth it to me to have to spend time outside of school working towards it. But I think that other students who want the pin and intend to attend the ceremony would like the idea of volunteering/attending meetings to acquire it.

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Specializes in Cath Lab & Interventional Radiology.

I do not think that the time commitment is worth it. I would rather just pay for the pin myself. We have a nursing club at my school, and participation is very low. We have hundreds of members, but hardly anybody shows up for anything (even free food!). It is just very hard with varying clinical, class and work schedules.

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We had to pay for our own... however we could borrow one from the program for the ceremony if we didn't want to shell out $60

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

Let's face it. The students are going to pay one way or the other -- either directly in cash, or indirectly through student fees. Might as well make it as easy and straightforward as possible.

I like the way Turd Ferguson's school does it. People can go through the ceremony without having to pay if it is a piece of jewelry they don't want to purchase.

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So if you could have your pin paid for by being a member of an organiztion and doing a few hours of volunteer work a semester (maybe 10), would you do it? No fees, just attending 2-3 meetings and doing the volunteering. Would that be worth it to you, if you wanted a pin or to go to pinning?

Thanks, guys, this is really helpful.

No, I wouldn't do that, because I don't have the time to volunteer and the pins most of us students bought only cost $5 with the name of the school on it and everything. There was someone else who was trying to get us to buy pins that are $50 and up, but that really wasn't worth it to me.

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Specializes in Psychiatry.

Our pin=we pay for it.

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