Forced to wear nurses' hat

[BSNbeauty]

Every Sunday when we serve we have to wear all white with the nurses' cap. Everyone on the nurses ministry hate wearing the hat for obvious reasons( falls off, gets dirty, ugly). I liked the hate during pinning but now I despise it. Another, issue some of us have is that not everyone on the nursing ministry are nurses. Some people are techs, respiratory therapists and secretaries. I feel they are misreprensented when wearing the nurses hats as everyone assume we are all nurses. We have voiced our concerns to the lead nurse in charge but she will not budge and forces us to wear the hats.

We wanted to make our case more prominant but couldn't find anything evidenced based or strong to make our case.

I'm happy to be serving and I mainly do this for my love for God. I know this is what He wants me to do.

Have any of you ever been forced to wear these hats? If so, how did you handle it?

[toomuchbaloney]

So what do you do when the BON says wearing hats are not allowed if you are not a RN and LPN but the lead nurse continues to purse this?

I pray about it and then tell the lead "nurse" that I cannot break the law or participate in something which has no clear purpose but may put people at odds with the law.

It sounds to me like the leadership needs some prayer and correction. A small dose of humility might well improve that ministry. Until then, I would spend some time in prayer to find my peace with God and then I would walk away from that "ministry" until they came into alignment with the laws that govern my practice as an RN and just plain common sense. The cap requirement suggests that the leadership is stuck in some unnecessary devotion to stuff that is meaningless (to me). Their unwillingness to step away when presented with sound argument makes me worry about what other silly and baseless stuff they require of their congregants.

Good luck.

[cockadoodie]

I remember wearing my cap! The men would be so courtly opening doors and smiling at me. LOL, maybe I should get a new cap and wear it while I run errands before work, its great to be able to be allowed first in line at the check out counter !

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

prnqday -- hopefully the issue has long since been resolved, but if not, this is what I would do :

"Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience." Romans 13:1-5

Misrepresentation as licensed nurses, and acting outside scope of practice is illegal. You remind your lead nurse and fellow ministry members that as Christians we are to obey the laws of the land, and the members need to collectively refuse to break it.