Any nurses out there still wearing a cap?

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Specializes in Telemetry, Med-Surg, ED, Psych.

Hello. I saw a nurse the other day in the parking lot wearing the traditional white nurse cap. I ran over to her and asked why on earth she was wearing that. It turns out she is from the "Old School" era of nurses (1970's) and has never worked a nursing job without her cap ...as she put it "I worked for this cap and nobody but myself will remove it". So, here is the question : Have you ever, or are you currently working with a nurse who wears the cap? ANy insights would be appreciated

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

I've seen one, she works in the ED/Trauma center where I used to work. Excellent nurse, teaches at a local college, great person in general. I've never asked, but I think she's got the same mindset as the nurse you talked about.

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I haven't seen a nurse in a cap (other than the occasional Naughty Nurse Halloween costume :down:) since the very early 90's. I worked a LTC as a CNA and the required dress code for everyone (CNA and nurses) was white head to toe, and the nurses wore their caps.

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Specializes in ED, Flight.

When I got into nursing school, the crew and bosses at my flight job got me a cap as a joke. They had trouble even finding a real one!

I think what you described is pretty cool. Clearly a woman with some pride, and not afraid to what she wants or thinks is right.

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Specializes in orthopaedics.

one of the nurses on my floor wears her cap and all white when she works. (bless her heart) the thing is she really needs a new cap. this one looks like its on its last leg.

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Specializes in ICU/ER.

I have never seen a real nurse wear a real nursing cap in real life ever...and no I am not 21... I am 38. :nurse:

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

My Aunt retired within the last couple of years. She wore all white and a cap every day to work. Her sister continues to work at the same facility and also wears white and her cap.

I LOVE caps...although I would never wear one, 1. because I couldn't keep it on and 2. we didn't get caps at graduation.

I do, however, wear my nursing pin from school. Gotta show the pride somehow!

I grew up with nurses on both sides of the family, and watched my Mom go off to work in her whites and cap when I was little----to me, that's what a nurse looks like! (Sorry Mom, but I just can't wear all white all the time )

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Or maybe she's covering the bald spot created from all those years of having pins tugging her hair. ;)

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I am in the ADN program at a community college and we have to wear all white and caps to clinicals.:nurse:

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I have only seen a cap once, it was at a nursing home and she was the director of nursing, and get this it had .............DON on her cap. :haha:

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The last time I saw a nurse who wore a cap was about two years ago. I was behind her in line at the store. She had on a white polyester uniform dress (a little yellow!) and, while the cap was not actually on her head at the time, it was obvious to me she had just removed it (she had "cap" hair, LOL).

I became a CNA in 1988 and the nurses at the LTC all wore their caps (except for my favorite LPN, who was a "rebel" and flat-out refused because "I look like a damn clown in it!").

There was also the large nurse, who was shaped like a pear, who wore her itty-bitty little pointy cap. She looked like one of those kiddie punching bags that kids knock down and they BLOOP! pop right back up again. (Sorry, I did not like her and often visualized myself making her go BLOOP!)

By the time I left LTC in 1999, only two were wearing their caps, and one was slowly phasing hers out.

Alas, I know those "old school" nurses are still out there SOMEWHERE but they are a dying breed.

Kinda sad.

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they are silly looking

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