[aimeee]

Never had one and I am sure that it would be really a pain to keep on my head, what with straight short hair.

[nightingale]

Nah....

For a very long time I longed to have a cap. I graduated 4 years ago and we received a pin only. Then, I worked in the real world and the fantasies changed.

Wearing a hat would be SO impracticle. I could just see me getting tangled up in all kinds of things!

I saw, in an antique store, a 30-50's white uniform with sewn on red cross, blue cape, and a nurse hat (selling for $ 70.00). Now maybe for Halloween or something... but not in todays' work like aoggo, rush around like a maniac, and charting charting charting environment... nah...

B.

[futrnurse]

We had to wear nursing caps all the way through nursing school and I just graduated in May......The new class now doesn't have to wear them but we have a very dorky white uniform with the ugliest green apron you ever saw.....STUPID looking we looked very dumb compared to all the other colleges... i would not wear a hat

[JAYNE :DANCE:]

I just graduated from a catholic nursing program and I had to wear a hat for graduation, and the amount of trouble I had putting it on then and keeping it on......nah, I could never imagine having to wear one all day, and everyday that I will be working.........

[night owl]

Well the pole is closed, so I can't vote. BUT, would I wear a cap if it looked decent? A definate "NO WAY!" Hate hats of any kind.
<--- Me without a cap!

[nu one]

Had to wear one during college in our clinicals. And had to wear one again on my first job. Wearing caps can give you that dignified feeling. However, it is just not practical...Just think of all those istances when your cap gets snagged on an IV line or on an O2 line. And imagine having your cap fall off your head just when you are wiping a patient's b**t!!!! So, NO I won't ever wear cap again...

[mark_LD_RN]

hell no! not ever. why would anyone want to wear one?

[RNConnieF]

I had one for LPN but my RN stressed the "college grad" thing and not only didn't have a cap we didn't have a pinning ceramony! I can deal without the cap, but not to pin a new nurse? Get with it.

[RyanRN]

Absolutely, positively, unequivacally, with a doubt NO!

[adrienurse]

Never had a cap, not even at graduation. I wouldn't be going around wearing my mortarboard either. I refuse to do things just because they are traditional.

The history of that cap was the fact that the nurse was there to serve without question (idea was related to the millitary as well as the practice of making "the help" wear caps in order do signify their rank and position). This has little or nothing to do with what nursing is today.