[biker nurse]

I'm in a RN program and it is required for us to wear our caps.
We hate it What do you think?
Did you have to wear one? and What year was it?

[gauge14iv]

In the US?

[all4schwa]

NO WAY!! i cant hardly believe that one!!

[gauge14iv]

yeah Im thinking this is not real LOL

[RNKittyKat]

I'm surprised you guys can wear your caps to hospital clinical. They're considered an infection control issue.

[JentheRN05]

If this is real - we had ONE girl who would insist on wearing her cap in clinicals. She had been in nursing school for 5 years and her mom and grandma were both nurses so she was carrying on the tradition. She thought it was important to wear her cap. I think she just liked the attention it got her. I think she was a little ADHD.

[gauge14iv]

We pointed and laughed at...
uhm...nah I should be nice

[PANurseRN1]

Mature, really mature. Those of you who are fairly young in the profession should learn a little bit about basic respect. There still are programs that have caps. That doesn't mean that the instructors and students are stupid. Just because it may not be the norm for your program doesn't mean it's wrong/bad for another program. I'd be willing to bet there are people currently waitlisted who would slap a coffee filter on their heads if it got them a spot in a program.

The last thing I would do is ridicule someone for deciding to wear a cap. BFHD (Big Fat Hairy Deal). There are a lot more important issues to get bent out of shape over.

Taking someone's decision to wear a cap and extrapolating that to a diagnosis of ADHD...now that's ridiculous.

[Daytonite]

I was in RN school from 1972 to 1975 and, yes, we had to wear caps. As we finished a semester we got to add a stripe to our caps. That is how we identified where we were in the program when we ran into other student nurses in the hospital. Because our stripes were also a distinctive color, we also could identify nurses who worked in the hospital (employee nurses of the hospital were also required to wear caps while on duty at that time) that were graduates from our school of nursing. It is kind of a sisterhood thing. When we were allowed to stop wearing caps during the 80s we had our school pins to help us identify ourselves. Today I see people losing all pride in their schools of nursing. I think that is sad and a poor commentary of the respect people have for their education. Try learning all this nursing stuff on your own with no guidance--can't do it.

[PANurseRN1]

As well as a sad commentary on the lack of respect some have for their fellow nurses.

Well put, Daytonite.