Anyone HAVE to wear a cap?

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I have been visiting a facility around here recently where the nurses MUST wear a cap. It is strange. I was told another facility around here also mandates them. I was really taken aback! The facility is beautiful. The population is elderly, and that may be okay, as that era was used to caps, but ... geez, I don't think I could do it.

Do they make the men wear caps also?

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(Most)Men don't wear tiaras either!!!!!!!

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RESPECT! That's IT! A poll won't tell anything except that alot of people grew up in sweats and jeans and don't know HOW to dress UP.

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Specializes in Telemetry, Case Management.

Not to argue the point. BUT. Whites do not make me look professional. White shows blood, betadine, spilled Dilantin, etc. It is heck to get out and you look like a slob while at work. To me the thought of nurses wearing white is as dumb as requiring auto mechanics to wear white. It WILL get dirty! AND look bad.

I have been a nurse almost twenty years. Don't know where my cap is and don't care. Caps got knocked crooked, crumpled by confused pts and were generally a pain in the butt.

My colored print scrubs are cheerful, don't show stains from everyday work situations and complement my natural complexion as white never will. My sneakers are white clogs, and comfortable. I look and feel clean and comfortable which says a lot more about dignity, professionalism and respect to me any day than blood stained whites and a cap.

If a doc is at the nurse's station and cannot take two seconds to read my tag with the N. at the end of my name and title, then I don't see the need to wear a cap to give him a visual clue.

And yes, I DO know how to dress up when the situation arises, tiara and all if needed. Just don't see how wearing a uniform from sixty years ago is appropriate to my work situation today. Very few professions require their female workers to wear the same clothing that was worn sixty to a hundred years ago, why should nursing be any different. If I had to wear whites and a cap, I'd go to work at Walmart. THERE I could wear my jeans and sweats and no one would tell me I should go back to the good old days.

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ooo I wore this ...... I was a candystriper 15 yrs ago in Canada

are they still in use?

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I wore the very same thing when I was a candystriper in Ohio. I haven't seen a candystirper in ages.

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Specializes in Outpatient/Clinic, ClinDoc.

I wasn't required to wear a cap (1985-1987) during nursing (LVN) school or even at graduation. Funny thing was that another school was at the same hospitals at the same time-they had to wear not only caps, but blue striped 'student' uniforms.

As for whites, after I went to the ICU in 1993 I swore I'd never wear whites again. All floor jobs since then have allowed scrubs, thankfully. :)

Heather

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