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I'm hopefully due to qualify soon, if I manage to pass the last 2 assignments & get my portfolio in order. I really want a buckle when I qualify which I know no-one seems to wear anymore, I just wondered if anyone knows where you get them from.
Yes I never got to wear 2 stripes on my hat because they banned hats when I went into my second year lol. I was most upset. We had belts then and the colour told the year of being a student. Nobody ever knew what the colour signified.
I even worn my hat with a green strip once I qualified Sometimes miss the hat but not often
hiya. I know what you mean. I couldn't wait to wear my buckle when i qualified, and luckily enough the ward that i work on allows buckles (some wards don't allow it). I often get comments from patients that they like to see nurses in their buckles as they know instantly that they are talking to a trained nurse. It looks professional i think aswell.
I got my buckle from a jewellry shop. I think you can send away for them too. I seem to remember there are adverts in some nursing journals.
here is something I did a quick search on :)
Crikey, that first picture looked like a visiting grim reaper!
OMG that 1st picture on the link looks like that new "all-denominations" NHS gown!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still haven't stopped laughing!!!! that must be where those morons got the idea from!
Oh my that pic from 1985 - yup that was me!! & yes I did get a buckle when I qualified I had to wear a hat that made me look like a chop on a crown rack of lamb!! It wasn't steristrips though - just 10 white hairclips to keep it in place!!
madwife2002, BSN, RN
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I cant copy and paste it on the post so I have put it as my avatar for a few days lol. Nostalgia