Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania celebrated 104 graduating nursing students May 7, with a nursing pinning ceremony in Haas Center for the Arts on campus.
Briana Machinski of Warminster and Jessica Weber of Feasterville were among the 104 students “pinned.”
Nursing students receive their pin through a “pinning ceremony,” which is a way to celebrate their accomplishments as well as a way to look forward to their future as professional nurses.
The first nursing pin or “badge” in the United States was presented to the Class of 1880. This badge was created by the first Nightingale School of Nursing at Bellevue Hospital. It symbolized vigilance, mercy, and relief of suffering. The distinctive nursing pin of BU was designed by the students of the class of 1979, the first graduates of the nursing program.
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