NW-SCC to hold drive-through nursing program pinning ceremony on May 15

   MUSCLE SHOALS-In accordance with Governor Kay Ivey’s Safer at Home order, Northwest-Shoals Community College (NW-SCC) will host its first drive-through nursing program pinning ceremony on the Shoals Campus Friday, May 15, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. The event will be held in the parking lot of Building 120, NW-SCC Shoals campus; 800 George Wallace Blvd., Muscle Shoals, AL 35661.

The ceremony will feature the pinning of 102 NW-SCC Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) and Practical Nursing (PN) graduates. Nursing graduates will hear brief remarks from NW-SCC President Dr. Glenda Colagross, Director of Nursing Education Brittney Humphres, and graduating representatives from the 2020 ADN and PN class.

 The annual NW-SCC Nursing Program Pinning Ceremony is a symbolic tradition of the ceremonial pinning that originated in the 1860s at the Nightingale School of Nursing Hospital in London. The nursing pin received by graduates is a type of badge, awarded by the program’s faculty as a symbolic welcome into the profession. Remarks and the Nightingale Pledge will be followed by the presentation of the pins in a car drive-through format.