The perfect gift for professional nurses and graduating nursing students. To nurses, and health care professionals in general, the registered nurse symbol stands as a symbol of accomplishment for completing school. Caduceus is a term used for the symbolic image of two serpents wrapped around a staff. The nurse symbol has letters R and N placed on either side of the staff, and those letters are an abbreviation for the title ”Registered Nurse’. The caduceus is a representation of the accomplishment that the students have made by completing school, which is a difficult task that requires much dedication. The symbol is usually imprinted on uniforms or used in signs and logos and has come to be commonly known as the registered nurse symbol. 14K-18K Gold, White Rose Gold available.