I'm graduating in May and I'm trying to decide who to ask. My class has decided to have a person of their choice pin each student. I would like to ask one of my nurse mentors to pin me, however, it seems like a lot of my classmates are having their family pin them. It's pretty important to me to have another nurse welcome me into the profession. But, I don't want to hurt my family's feelings if it's more traditional to for a family member to do it.
It seems a little odd to me to not have an RN, whether it's a friend, family member or faculty pin you. Our class can choose anyone to pin us, the only stipulation is that he or she must be an RN.
It seems a little odd to me to not have an RN, whether it's a friend, family member or faculty pin you. Our class can choose anyone to pin us, the only stipulation is that he or she must be an RN.
What? Someone who pins you, has to be an RN? I've heard that it has to be a nurse who welcomes the graduating student to the nursing field. But how will the school know for sure that the person who pins the student is an actual RN? Will the school check for credentials?
Our school didn't (and still doesn't) let you decide. The nurses who taught classes and clinicals were the ones who pinned us. We weren't even able to pick which of the nurses pinned us. I was hoping one particular instructor did pin me and I was lucky enough to have her pin me.
Our school didn't (and still doesn't) let you decide. The nurses who taught classes and clinicals were the ones who pinned us. We weren't even able to pick which of the nurses pinned us. I was hoping one particular instructor did pin me and I was lucky enough to have her pin me.
In pinning ceremonies, all the teaching nursing instructors show up in them? I thought, only the ones who do the pinning, were required to show up? And how does that work? When you apply for graduation, and you go through all the necessary paperwok, I suppose the instructors divide the students alphabetically to do the pinning? Or in the ceremony, they just stand by sections and go by whoever student pass by them? How do they determine which student to pin?
Our school didn't (and still doesn't) let you decide. The nurses who taught classes and clinicals were the ones who pinned us. We weren't even able to pick which of the nurses pinned us. I was hoping one particular instructor did pin me and I was lucky enough to have her pin me.
In pinning ceremonies, all the teaching nursing instructors show up in them? I thought, only the ones who do the pinning, were required to show up? And how does that work? When you apply for graduation, and you go through all the necessary paperwok, I suppose the instructors divide the students alphabetically to do the pinning? Or in the ceremony, they just stand by sections and go by whoever student pass by them? How do they determine which student to pin?
I went to a private LPN school. The instructors were RN's and not a whole lot of them, almost all of our instructors attended our graduation. Our class was seated alphabetically and as they called our name, we walked on stage, to the end of the line of the instructors and were pinned by whomever the instuctor was that was closest to the end of the line and had no student they were pinning.
Im graduating May 12th and my school also lets you choose who you want to pin you, RN or not. Most schools now-a-days, I've noticed are very untraditional. I really don't like that, I think the whole point of being "pinned" is like others have said here, is to have another nurse "welcome" you into the profession. But standards change and things become outdated, which is sad. I don't have anyone in my family that's a nurse, and even though my husband and kids have really been there for me and I'm doing this for them, it's not the same and they wouldn't understand the significance of the "pin". Good thing though, is I had great clinical instructors, so deciding on "one" was difficult, but I did choose one that really challenged me in clinicals without having to "embrass" me while doing it but helped me become a better "critical thinking nurse" as she would say!
I had my mom pin me. She's not an RN...not even in the medical field. However, it is because of her that I am an RN now. She motivated me, encouraged me, and never doubted me even when I had doubts in myself. It is because of her that I am where I am at in my life.
I understand the whole thing with an RN welcoming you into the nursing field, but it meant soo much for my mom to do it. That's just my feelings about it. It was sort of like her giving her blessing for me into the nursing field and her saying she was proud of me, and in return I felt like I was saying "thank you, I am able to go in the nursing field because of all your support and love."
How many of us are still going to have a relationship with a clinical instructor or director of nursing or faculty member who pinned us after graduation? I would guess not impossible, but very few. I'll always remember who pinned me!
Our dean pinned us, she was a witchy hag and a horrendous teacher..I wish we could have chosen. I would have chosen some of my fellow classmates, we grew close like family and I would not have survived my acc-bsn program without them!
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It seems a little odd to me to not have an RN, whether it's a friend, family member or faculty pin you. Our class can choose anyone to pin us, the only stipulation is that he or she must be an RN.