Do you/ did you have a Nurses Cap? Pin?

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  1. Caps? Pins?

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      Yes I had a cap (describe it please)
    • 39
      No I didn't have one, sorry
    • 224
      Yes I had a Nursing School Pin (describe it please)
    • 23
      No pin, sorry

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my first cap was white cotton with a drawstring in the back. it sort of favored an old pioneer sunbonnet only without the large front part. the front was only about 1" wide. my second was made of organdy and pretty much required starching every time we wore it. my third was a standard sears-roebuck generic one.....i lost it sometime in the early 80's.

my pin was 10 kt gold. kind of a round oval.....with the university seal in the center. it was stolen from my lab coat at work one day. i later found one in a pawn shop. it isn't gold but gold plated, but since it was all i could find i bought it for $5. i think the first one was like $50. (gold)

i found some caps on the web

univ.of wisconsin: cap collection

I still have my original pin and cap from 1990, both are considered 'prized' possessions and only brought out on special occasions.

My pin: http://www.clarkbookstore.com/shop_product_detail.asp?catalog_group_id=MQ&catalog_group_name=R2VuZXJhbCBNZXJjaGFuZGlzZQ&catalog_id=361&catalog_name=TnVyc2luZyBQaW5zIC0gQmFzaWM&pf_id=5&product_name=MTBLIEdvbGQgRmlsbGVk&type=1&target=shop_product_list.asp

(With the guard and engraving I think I paid twice the current price 21 years ago, I still have my copy of the order form, I should look, lol).

My class was the last one required to wear caps, it was the low Mercy type

http://www.kayscaps.com/shop/10Expand.asp?ProductCode=1137 we wore them low on the back of our heads with the cuff starched close (so they weren't inclined to tangle in curtains), with the big bangs of the 80s they were just about invisible from the front. Students wore them plain, RNs added a 1/4" black ribbon placed precisely 1" below the top edge of the cuff.

Specializes in thoracic ICU, ortho/neuro, med/surg.

I have a white nursing cap, no stripe. It's the stiff cotton style, not the soft style. I have a nursing pin as well, it's silver, circular, and has the nightingale lamp on it. I wear it to work quite often (the pin, not the hat).

As far as collectibles go, I have a WWII nurses' cape, the navy with the red lining, and I have two WWII American Red Cross volunteer hats, in the nursing style. One is grey and one is white. I also collect the WWII pins from the Red Cross, so I have various of those as well as a Navy Nurse Corps pin from the era. I treasure them.

Still have my cap and bring out during nurses week. Hey, I'm short and those extra four inches help!

I have both my nursing pins. The ugly one from the College where I obtained my education and my registration pin from my provincial College (what the US would call a BON). The more attractive of the two is the provinciall pin which we only obtained after passing the registration exam and is engraved with our registration. One nurse I worked with told me it was her most expensive piece of jewellery because it cost her over $10K!

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