Initiation in the dark
In this photo, Mary and one other nursing student lead their cohort in a recitation of the Nightingale Pledge. (Mary is on the left.)
This (near-) nurses’ “pinning” ceremony was held on Monday, in the dark: IUSB abruptly lost electricity. Audience members illumined the proceedings with their cell phones. (You can see, in the photo, one bigwig doing this.)
You also can see the huge screen that automatically lowered itself when the power went out. It crushed a few of the initiates.
Despite these misfortunes, each person was adequately recognized. Mary wore two tassels, and her name was printed in the bulletin four or five times for various honors.
She’d been studying to become a nurse since 2015.
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| Photo credit: Stephen |
This (near-) nurses’ “pinning” ceremony was held on Monday, in the dark: IUSB abruptly lost electricity. Audience members illumined the proceedings with their cell phones. (You can see, in the photo, one bigwig doing this.)
You also can see the huge screen that automatically lowered itself when the power went out. It crushed a few of the initiates.
Despite these misfortunes, each person was adequately recognized. Mary wore two tassels, and her name was printed in the bulletin four or five times for various honors.
She’d been studying to become a nurse since 2015.