The Nightingale pledge: a Hippocratic Oath for nurses During their graduation and/or pinning ceremonies, new nurses may be invited to recite the following: I solemnly pledge myself before God and in the presence of this assembly to pass my life in purity and to practice my profession faithfully.
US nurses have recited the pledge at pinning ceremonies for decades. In recent years, many US nursing schools have made changes to the original or 1935 versions,
