Nightingale Pledge - Your Contemporary Version

(Massachusetts)

We used your contemporary version of the Nightingale Pledge at the Pinning Ceremony for our nursing graduates on May 25, 2011. I prefaced the recitation of the pledge with an explanation that the original pledge reflected nursing practice and the role of the nurse at the time it was written, but language that was suitable in 1893 is outdated for contemporary nursing practice. Your version more accurately reflects contemporary nursing practice while still maintaining the underlying principles valued by Florence Nightingale.

Thank you for allowing us to use your version in our ceremony. The graduates were pleased to be able to recite something that more accurately reflected how they felt about nursing.

Katherine Gehly
Assistant Dean for Nursing
Middlesex Community College

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Nightingale Pledge - Your Contemporary Version

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May 28, 2011

Nightingale Pledge
by: Anonymous

I am so honored.

This is the first recognition of my contemporary version the the nightingale pledge being used by a graduating class.

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