Caps anyone??

RN4NICU, LPN, LVN · Jul 18, 2004

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.

mrdoc2005 · Jul 18, 2004

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.

suzy253, RN · Jul 18, 2004

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.

suzanne4, RN · Jul 18, 2004

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.

RN34TX · Jul 18, 2004

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.

suzy253, RN · Jul 18, 2004

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!

suzanne4, RN · Jul 18, 2004

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.

nursedawn67, LPN · Jul 18, 2004

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

Katnip, RN · Jul 18, 2004

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.

Nurse Ratched, RN · Jul 18, 2004

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.

Katnip, RN · Jul 18, 2004

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?

Caps anyone??

Would you like to receive a cap at graduation?