Millien E. Acanto and Honeylen S. Sarmiento with PAMCO
The West Visayas State University College of Nursing (CON) Class of 2024, Batch Zephyr, conducted their Capping and Candlelighting Ceremony at the University Cultural Center last August 30, 2022,
The ceremony honored second-year students as they started their program’s hospital training. The cap is a badge of distinction representing knowledge, experience, and expertise. The pinning ceremony is a historical practice connoting that “nursing is a vocation or a “calling,” while the lamp represents the desire for life, health, love, and understanding. Nurses and nursing students are expected to serve like Florence Nightingale, renowned for her heroic service and care for soldiers in field hospitals in the 19th century.
A total of 131 student nurses participated in the capping and candle lighting ceremonial tradition.
WVSU President Joselito Villaruz gave his welcome address and emphasized, “I trust that you will triumph over life’s uncertainties because you are not just trained well but trained for excellence with compassion, commitment, and courage.”
The guest speaker for the ceremony, LTC. Jose Romulo Dilag, PAF (GSC) said, “Pursue your dreams, aim for excellence, stay relevant, and be brave and courageous for the challenges ahead. Soar on to wings like eagles.”
After the nurse’s pledge and prayer, Batch Zephyr sang their batch song, To The Sky.
