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

Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

I have both cap and pin. My cap is the typical one clip-art uses to represent nurses. We only were required to wear it twice, on the first day of second year when we were bestowed a blue band to signify the successful completion of year one, and on graduation day when we donned our black band. My cap currently adorns the head of a large white bear that guards my office, My pin is 10k gold, a Maltese cross with a gold cross in the center and blue enamel around that. Around the edge it says "St Boniface General Hospital" in raised print. I wear my pin to work every single shift. I have it secured around the tab on my ID card; it sits very nicely over my last name. We recently got new ones because of the pending grand opening of the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute that has a lot of electronic access controls and we were no longer allowed to leave off our last names. Many people, myself included, didn't like that idea, having had issues with security in the past. But this solution works for me!

Specializes in Operating Room.

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I bought it...but I definitely earned it!!! We didn't even get a pinning ceremony, but some nursing school buddies took a pic of an instructor pinning me after I passed the HESI/Final exam. :)

Specializes in LTC.

I still have my cap and pin. Up until 5 years ago I wore my cap on holidays. It was lovely White starched cotton with a ruffle and a black velvet horizontal ribbon. I would still wear it every day but I,ve really gotten some pretty negative feedback from the Nurses I've worked with. They felt it was a symbol of the day when nurses were "hand-maids" to the doctors. I never thought of it that way I was just so proud that I had earned my cap. I still wear my pin and will continue to do so. That I am also very proud to wear. But then, I grew up in Catholic schools where the Nuns still wore habits. And I'm sorry that most of them no longer do that. Things change and I guess You have to change with them.....Sad.....:sniff:

Specializes in Operating Room.

Go ahead and wear it...You earned the right!!!! :)

I still have my cap and pin. Up until 5 years ago I wore my cap on holidays. It was lovely White starched cotton with a ruffle and a black velvet horizontal ribbon. I would still wear it every day but I,ve really gotten some pretty negative feedback from the Nurses I've worked with. They felt it was a symbol of the day when nurses were "hand-maids" to the doctors. I never thought of it that way I was just so proud that I had earned my cap. I still wear my pin and will continue to do so. That I am also very proud to wear. But then, I grew up in Catholic schools where the Nuns still wore habits. And I'm sorry that most of them no longer do that. Things change and I guess You have to change with them.....Sad.....:sniff:

My cap is white, with a royal blue stripe. I still wear my nursing pin on my scrub top everyday. It is gold, with a blue cross on it.

Specializes in ER, Medicine.

Never had a cap.

I got my pin during our pinning ceremony, but it's the ugliest hunk of metal I've ever seen. Therefore, I only wore it during my pinning ceremony. That night I threw it in one of my suitcases.

Now that I'm back home, it's in a drawer...somewhere....

Hummm.....

Specializes in LTC, Med-Surg, IMCU/Tele, HH/CM.

I really wish that some of the things which simbolized nursing throughout history were still in place, such as the cap and the cape and the pin.

We didn't get a cap at our school, but we got pins. Cheapo pins. They are shield shaped with our school name and "RN" on it and a blue stone in the center which was the color of our scrubs during school but not the school colors. I was a little mad at the $5 pins because to me the "real" pins are the gold ones, I suppose I felt as if this one wouldn't last forever because it's some sort of plastic.

After a while I got over that feeling, because even if the pin wears out the letters R.N. will be behind my name forever.

I used to wear my mom's cap when I was little- I thought it was the coolest thing ever! (she would have swatted my behind if she'd ever caught me!).

I have a silver and green pin from my college, and a 14k gold Sigma Theta Tau pin with amethysts that I bought with $$ I got for graduation. It was a couple hundred bucks and I only wear it to conferences and such, but it was worth every penny to have a pretty symbol of all my hard work in school.

Specializes in Home care, LTC, subacute/acute rehab.

I have both a cap and pin. My cap is rounded with gold and royal blue stripes. I used to wear my pin with my uniform, but almost lost it once. I'm so afraid of losing it that it sits in my jewlery box. It's gold with a white cross on it.:nurse:

Specializes in Med-Surg/Tele, ER.

We didn't have caps, but at graduation had the option of getting a pin. I didn't have the money for it at the time, but my Mama bought the school pin for me - a lovely white gold pin for me with my initials on the back. I don't wear it every day, as I'm terrified I'd lose it, but I wear it on my lab coat. It's one of my most cherished possessions.

I wish I had a cap! During Nurse's Week some of the nurses busted-out their old school caps and wore them with pride. They looked lovely.

Specializes in LTC, Med-Surg.

Although I don't have my original nursing cap; I have been purchasing a generic one and have worn it for the vast majority of my nsg career. I also have never worn "scrubs". I prefer the professional white dress uniform, white lab coat, white stockings, and white shoes.

Specializes in LTC.

Good for You!!!!!!!!!!

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