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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how about it?

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 OB, HH, ADMIN, IC, ED, QI.
Do you also remember (or was it just in my area) that only RNs wore 3/4 sleeve uniforms?

I hadn't thought about it, but our hospital's official R.N, uniform (for graduates in 1960 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) had 3/4 length sleeves. Other uniforms for sale at stores, had short sleeves, as "scrubs" today do. However, uniform stores were mostly for maids and waitresses, or mail order.

I don't think most of us knew the distinction of 3/4 length sleeves. It was a challenge to keep the lower part of the sleeve dry. Thanks for sharing your knowledge of them. :nurse:

jvrpurple, I still have my pin but hadn't worn it for yrs. No one seems to wear them much. I value it a lot, as you, I worked hard for it too. We've all worked so hard for our pins, it's something else to want to help others and work hard to be able to do so. Love to all.

Ribbit Hill,

I do remember the 3/4 sleeves and the dress uniforms. I became an LPN in 1978 and an RN, AD in 1982. :typing

Specializes in cardiovascular, EP.

Yes, I had a nursing cap. It was a white linen square. It had to be washed and heavily starched. It folded up in the front, and had a tapered 'bun' area where the two lower corners were brought together to meet each other in the back. There was a pin or snap or something that held the two lower sides together.

Yes, I had a nursing pin. It was yellow gold with blue lettering. The inner symbol was a christian cross (attended Methidist nursing school) and the outer area was circular with latin inscription.

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

My pin has a lamp of life in the middle of it with the name of my school surrounding it.

My cap has a blue stripe around it. It is the school colors.

I still have both, and are stored in a nurses cap container.

Specializes in Home health, Ortho.

I had a cap but my mother bought it for me to take pictures in for graduation. We didn't wear them in school (did wear the white uniform dress, though). We graduated in black cap and gown. Our school had pins but we had to order them and pay for them in our own time and there was only limited time the guy was there (like an hour or 2 on one day) and I never got a chance to get one.

Specializes in Home health, Ortho.

At the hospital where I used to work there were 2 or 3 nurses who still wore their caps every day.

we had plain white caps with a red stripe on the edge

our pin was gold and red I dont wear it on my badge was afraid I was going to loose it worked to hard for that pin. I am going to wear my cap next year on halloween along with all white. There are actually a couple of nurses in my hospital wear all white dresses everytime they work and one who wears a cap

My pin is made of stainless steel with red and gold inlay. I wish we had caps, even if it is only for graduation, and pictures afterwards. I walk in the halls of my area hospitals and see pictures of graduating nurses from years ago versus those of recent graduates. When I look at the older pictures I know that they graduated from nursing school. When I look at the recent ones and I cannot tell the difference from high school graduation.

I tried to set up a petition for a cap at graduation and for class pictures, no-one wanted to sign it.:crying2:

Specializes in Telemetry, Case Management.

I graduated in 1984. I had a cap, it was small, and had one navy blue stripe on it. Our pins were dark brass with a ornate edge and a Flo lamp in the middle, with the school name above & below the lamp.

The pin, I have in my jewelry box. I think. The cap my kids wore for Halloween for years and it got thrown out at some point. I had to wear the cap to my first job and never wore it after that.

Specializes in CVICU.

I dislike that the answers to the question is "No I didn't have one, sorry." I think that the caps are silly and are the product from an era of nursing in which nurses were often doctors' hand maidens. I personally wouldn't be caught dead in one. Also, these are sexist, as they are pinned to long hair, and since most men don't have long hair (and neither do I and several other women), they would be left out. In addition, I don't think that any of my guy friends would appreciate being made to wear one of these ridiculous things... LOL.

I do, however, have a pin, which my mother pinned on me during our pre-graudation reception. I like this idea as it it is not sexist or silly looking. It also represents my program and education, which is something to be proud of.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse%27s_cap

I had a cap when I graduated back in 1967, looked like a toilet tissue roll stuck on my head, threw it in the trash and never wore it again, ugh !!!!! Still have the pin though. Even had to fight with supervisors who wanted to know where my cap was in the middle of codes while I was under the bed connecting up chest tubes on immediate postop open heart patients in ICUS where we wore white scrubs to top it off.

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