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.
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
Florence Nightingale
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Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean
Pinning ceremony (nursing)
…nurses into the nursing profession. The history of the ceremony dates back to the Crusades in the 12th century, and later, when Queen Victoria awarded Florence Nightingale the Royal Red Cross for her service as a military nurse during the Crimean War. By 1916, pinning ceremonies had become an established tradition in both…
Nightingale, c. 1860
Embley Park in Hampshire, now a school, one of the family homes of William Nightingale, seen in 2007
Young Florence Nightingale
Painting of Nightingale by Augustus Egg, c. 1840s