Caps anyone??

We will only wear our caps for our pinning ceremony, but that's it. No caps for clinicals.

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?

I bought mine through the school, so it has their colors on it. It has a velvet ribbons in the colors of blue and silver.

Just casting my vote. :)

On the stepdown unit where I work, I wear surgical-style scrubs with the top tucked in. I just can't imagine wearing a uniform, especially a cap, to work.

Just casting my vote. :)

ahhh come on Larry--I bet you'd look ever-so-cute with one! :)

I always thought a capping ceremony would have been nice, and I was a little disappointed when I got to college and found out they were long gone (and I graduated in 1984!) I agree with you, when I was growing up, that cap symbolizes all I wanted to be!

Me wear a cap? NOOOOOOOOOOO way Jose........ I'd rather barf.

I agree 100% with Larry.

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.

ok, sorry, for lack of a better word I said "trophy" It really is a symbol of times past when to have the cap you had to earn it as well as the stripes on it. I have 2 grandmothers who went to nursing school and told me the stories and the honors of the stripes and the caps. I just think it would be nice ot keep up the tradition even if no one will wera them.

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 grandmother had a pin from school as well as the red cross for being a volenteer for many years. When this randmother died, my grandfather had to give the pin back(at least he thought he had to) as it had a special number on it assigned to my grandmother. He thought that they reused the number after a perosn with the pin dies. Anyway, It was a neat thing to see the pins and stuff my gramdmothers earned through thier service and education

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.

see, this is what I wish all school still did. Even if you did not wera them in clinical, you still get the cpas and the stripes and the ceremony. Where has all ths gone? and why has it gone?

We wore caps for our offical photos that were sent to the state nursing board with our paperwork for the NCLEX, and wore them again for graduation.

I actually wore mine to work once during nurses week; I didn't have a problem with it falling off (lots of bobby pinning!) but it did get tangled in the curtains dividing the semi-private rooms a few times. My older patients LOVED seeing the hat again, though some of my co-workers thought I'd lost my mind! :chuckle

Now it has a place of honor atop my tall jaguar cat statue at home.

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.

like I said we don't have to wear them in the hosptal but the tradition of receiveing them would be nice.

And the ties that the doctors wear and taht flop all over the place picking up the natural flora on the skin of all the patients they see and then spreading it all over. We were talkign about this in Microbiology the other day. Those ties need to either go or some of the docs need to tuck them in. Plus the lab coats the docs wear opened up and flying in the wind. That too is unsanitary.