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Caps anyone??

I finally get to nursing school after waiting my whole life(literally since I was 2 yrs old I wanted to be a nurse) to get the hard earned cap and I found out the other day that they do not give out caps anymore.:o Just pins(and that is after you buy your pin) My grandma was a nurse and she used to make me a cap and draw a red cross on it and then bobby pin it to my head. I felt so special with taht on. I used to go around with my "cap" and my grandmas stethascope and play nurse. My grandma told me that someday I woudl earn my own cap. Now I find out taht they are oing away with the caps as no one wears them anymore. Well I say bring the cap back! (I would wear it. :) ) but even if no one wears them at least bring them back as the symbol of the hard earned trophy. ya know?

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Trophies belong on a shelf - not on your head.

They are in the way and the vast majority of nurses do not wish to wear them (those that do are free to purchase from a place like kayscaps.com or the like).

This has come up many times on the board - try a search if you want to see pages and pages of opinions and debates

As for myself - Never worn one...never will.

My school does not even pin anymore. When I asked one of teachers why she said " it was a LPN thing anyway". I was suprised to she how little she knew about the nursing history. The pin was one of the first steps in seperating nurse from hookers that posed as nurse. Later it served as a way of spliting the educated from the non-educated (doctors wifes)

I am a guy so I do not really want a pin but I understand how many in my class feel when they say they want them.

My school still caps but we don't wear them on clinical. They have a nice ceremony in a church and the freshmen get capped, the juniors get a stripe on their caps and seniors get 2 stripes. At graduation, the seniors get a thick stripe around the cap and get pinned. It's all in the long tradition of the school. We wear our caps for ceremonies only..not in clinical.

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The caps are actually unsanitary if you are looking at them from an infection control point of view. If you wore a cap, would you actually wash it once a week? Patients sneeze and cough, even if you have a mask and goggles on, what about it going to your hair and cap? Plus they can fall off into a sterile field, a bedpan full of poop, etc..............

All of the nurses in Thailand wear caps, and many just throw them out every three months when they look dirty and purchase a new one. My only student who washes hers once a week is the one who works as an epidemiologist at her hospital.

I had no idea that anyone gave out or wears caps anymore in this day and age. What about the male students at your school? Do they wear caps too?

Just curious.

The men get a caduceus pin. Since we can't wear our caps, mine is stored in a plastic box in my closet. It's nice to have though!

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I had no idea that anyone gave out or wears caps anymore in this day and age. What about the male students at your school? Do they wear caps too?

Just curious.

My students are already nurses and are working as nurses. They attend my school to study medical English.

There are actually very few male nurses in Thailand, not even sure if they are accepting male students anymore over here. You actually don't hear of it.

I bought myself one just to say I have one. :)

Our school stopped handing out caps years ago...nobody makes that style anymore, so we can't even buy them. They looked sort of like lacy maid's caps. I wouldn't wear one to work, but it would have been nice to have had them for the ceremony, but they didn't. It would be nice to have one as a memento.

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I bought myself one just to say I have one. :)

Me, too :).

http://www.kayscaps.com/cat1.htm Here's a source if you're interested. I have mine on my desk at work.

Thanks for the link.

A question for you two who bought caps. Did you choose one that looks like your schools or did you just pick one you liked? Did you get stripes?

We had pinning and wore caps for our LPN pinning ceremony and we will be having the same as we graduate with our RN. We do not wear them in clinicals but it is part of the ceremony and one thing I discovered was the families at the ceremony were filled with pride as well as ourselves wearing the cap at ceremony. When we finished our ceremony we had everyone sign our caps for a keepsake. We thought that was kinda kewl............................anyway wearing a cap in ceremony is very acceptable IMHO

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