May
09
SMWC’s Nursing Pinning Ceremony will take place on Friday, May 9.
For the pinning, the pin recipients each chose family members and friends to accompany them and place their pin on them. The pin adorns a lamp, symbolizing the lit lamp used by Florence Nightingale while caring for injured soldiers during the Crimean War. It reiterates the meaning of nursing with care and hope. The nursing pin and the ceremonial pinning tradition originated in the late 1800s.