Nightingale Pledge
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The Nightingale Pledge, named in honour of Florence Nightingale, is a modified version of the Hippocratic Oath. Lystra Gretter and a Committee for the Farrand Training School Grace for Nurses in Detro
The Nightingale Pledge
Pinning ceremony (nursing)
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A pinning ceremony is a symbolic welcoming of newly graduated or soon-to-be graduated nurses into the nursing profession.
Nightingale Pledge
…advancement of "human welfare"—an expansion of nurses' bedside focus to an approach that encompassed public health. US nurses have recited the pledge at pinning ceremonies for decades. In recent years, many US nursing schools have made changes to the original or 1935 versions, often removing the "loyalty to physicians…
Pinning ceremony at S.C.T.C. Professional School of Nursing, Somerset, Pennsylvania, 2012
A nursing school graduate receives a nurse's pin at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, circa 1954. Head nurse Schwester Selma is second from the left.
Pinning ceremony at Nazareth College, New York, 2015
A nursing pin from California State University, Sacramento