Chelsey (Poisson) Simoni ’18, M.S.N. ’22 has met with congressmen, spoken before a senate committee and met with President Biden and the First Lady at the White House. You might say she’s a soldier on a mission.
Rhode Island College offers more than 90 undergraduate and 30 graduate programs, including a wide range of programs in business, education, nursing, social work, and the arts and sciences. Our Schools Our nationally recognized academic programs are offered through our five schools and our Professional Studies and Continuing Education.
The pinning ceremony is a time-honored nursing school tradition and an important milestone.
It is a symbolic welcoming, an induction into professional nursing.
The ceremony dates to the 1860s, when Florence Nightingale was awarded the Red Cross of St. George in recognition for her tireless service to the injured during the Crimean War. To share the honor, she in turn presented a medal of excellence to her brightest graduates. By 1916, the practice of pinning new graduates was standard throughout the U.S.