Folding the Cap

I miss the cap too. I never wore one but I still miss it. One was handed to me on my graduation which I promptly filed away on a remote closet shelf to collect dust. One thing's for sure though, I wouldn't want to have to fold one.

Thank you for sharing this nostalgic story.

Caps were definitely out by the time I started. But they were in when hubby started nursing in the late 70s. Can you imagine it? Nahh, he didn't have to wear one LOL

That was sweet. Boy it brings back memories.

Remember working with them. Sweat pouring, getting tangled in curtains, losing pins. Mine looked like something from the flying nun. Too big. No excuses back then, it better be on and pearly white and starched to boot. I remember days getting yelled at because I was running around with the cap half hanging off my head. The case that you just had to have to place it in and carry with you, when not on the wards. Sorry I did not keep it in a way. Brings back memories. Thanks for the post.

My wife use t wear one in the early days.She has several times wished that she kept one. Tell me can they still be gotten? and if so where?

Capping used to be a ceremony just as pinning is today. I vaguely remember my mother preparing for capping ceremonies for her LPN students in the early 70's.

I had her pin me on 12/13/2007 at my pinning ceremony. It was a surprise christmas present for her....

My capping ceremony in 1990 was me walking into the Dean's office, asking for a cap. She dug through a big cupboard and handed me the flattened parts and said "You know what this is supposed to look like??"

Just for my mom, I put that cap on and had a portrait taken of me in my whites-- that's the senior portrait that she still has hanging on her wall!!

(never wore that cap since!!)

Very nice post...only wore a cap at my graduation - it's in my closet - I'm sure it's a mass made one (not handmade)

I cherish my nursing pin though and sometimes wear it....I worked so hard to get it!

I got a cap at my capping ceremony (LVN) and a pin of a cap. That was after 1st semester. Then got a pin upon graduation. We never wore them in clinicals but were expected to keep our caps and wear them during our graduation ceremony. :) But I did take an NCLEX class where some of the students were from Los Angeles and they had to wear their nursing caps to all clinicals.

I graduated last year and the only contact I have ever had with a nursing cap was on our senior picture day. They had a single hat available that we could use in our pictures. When we discussed nursing caps in school most of the teachers were of the opinion that the cap was outdated, a source of infection (because it could and did fall off and was unnecessary), and a symbol of discrimination (because men don't wear them, and what about female nurses with no hair or fine hair?).

I had a nursing instructor that had very fine hair and attended a catholic nursing school. She said her hat was constantly slipping off or tilting. The nuns used to scold her and make her write 10 page essays on the importance of keeping her hat on straight

Call me a newbie, but I'm glad we don't have nursing caps. I would never wear one >_>

My wife use t wear one in the early days.She has several times wished that she kept one. Tell me can they still be gotten? and if so where?

Check out "Kay's Caps" online. They have TONS of styles. You can probably even find the style that your wife's school used. That would be an awesome present for her. I still have my cap and wear it on special occasions. My pin and cap are very precious to me, even when I am disgusted with nursing these days, somehow that cap helps to remind me of when nursing was a healing art, a calling that people had to help others.