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 Med/Surg, OB, Home Health/Hospice.

I worked my ASS OFF for that cap. I cried the day I tossed it in the drawer and have somehow never missed it since. BUT I must tell you that patients I talk to liked when they could ID NURSES by white uniforms and caps. Today they can't tell between HOUSEKEEPING or RN's in the Hospitals. I am a home health nurse now and try to always wear a white lab coat. I guess I'm just old fashion and proud...I don't want to be mistaken for the bath aide. :)

Specializes in ER,ICU,L+D,OR.

I barely remember my cap. I do not even miss it all. I did lose my school pin. But I recently, needed to visit an old friend who is ill. And while there I did visit my old school. Visited with the nurse instructors there. And I was able to get a replacement for my school pin.

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

Actually I have 2 caps. The one I wore every time I went to clinicals has a baby blue stripe all the way across it.

The one I wore at graduation had a short red stripe on each side.

My pin is gold with the lamp of life in the center surrounded by the lettering in a black band of the school I graduated from.

I attached the pin to my graduation hat that is along with my clinical hat tucked proudly away in my nurses cap bag. They are a treasured part of my belongings.

Specializes in Home Care, Primary care NP, QI, Nsg Adm.

I received a pin from my hospital program at graduation in 1978. It was gold with the hospital logo in red. Our names were printed on the back. We wore them after graduation on our uniforms and it was common in those days. In the early and playful (still playful but wiser and more mature :lol2: ) days of my nursing career I thought it would be funny to wear a white painters cap with my pin on it. I did it for 'minute'. Ouch...self-disclosure.

I 1993 while doing relief work in Bangladesh I sold the pin for the gold.

Well, I had a cap AND a pin. Two of each actually. I had a pin for my LPN and my ADN. My LPN cap was the standard winged cap with yellow and gold strips on the right wing. My ADN cap was the standard winged cap with one black stripe.

Specializes in LTC Pharmacy.

I had both a cap and a pin. The cap was one of those traditional cardboard things you see on TV; I tossed that stupid thing the minute after I graduated. I absolutely hated wearing it; it constantly was snatched by curtains and got caught up in IV lines. Some nurses I know cling to that cap; they say they earned it and some even wear the things. I don't need a cap OR a pin to know what I've earned; I see that every time I sign my name and title.

Specializes in LTC.

When I graduated PN, we had to wear white and our caps. Our caps are traditional white with a small dark green band (school color). We also were pinned with our school LPN pin by our program chair during a pinning ceremony. I put my pin on my cap. There is a set of bullhorns over my bed (husband is a cowboy!) on one horn hangs his cowboy hat and on the other horn is my nursing cap.

Specializes in Neonatal.

Only the pin, which I'm thankful for because not that the hats are bad but I look AWEFUL in hats :( the pin is stuck to my graduation tassels, I don't want to lose it...

I still wear my pin every day. It's one of the prettiest I've ever seen. 14 Karat gold, round with scalloped edges, green circle with the lamp in the center. I've been wearing it for 32 years and would be naked without it! Lost my cap years ago. One of our nursing supervisors wears a cap that looks like an upside ice cream cone!

Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.

I too wear my pin every day. It's 14K gold, round with royal blue enamel and a gold cross in the centre. The school's name is embossed around the edge and it's engraved with the school's motto on the back: Estote Fideles (Be ye faithful). I love it. My cap is also worn every day, but I'm not the one wearing it. Eeyore does!

Specializes in Med-surg, Rehab.

I graduated from LPN school in March. My pin is Sterling Silver. It is oval shaped with blue in the middle with white in the middle of the blue and in the middle of the white it has a red cross. around the edges it has our school name and practical nursing.

Specializes in Reg. Pract. Nurse; med - surg..

I too continue to wear my grad pin each and every shift. As for the cap, I only wear it during nurses week and I am happy to do so. Never owned a navy cape but my Mother did. I have fond memories of my Mom coming home from work in her white dress with the navy cape over her shoulders, carrying her starched cap. That was back in the late 1960's.

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