Are you required to wear nursing cap for graduation??

[luvmy2angels]

there is a big old stink going on in my class about us having to wear our nursing cap when we graduate. personally i love the fact that we get caps and will proudly wear mine. other people are having an absolute fit that we have to wear them. i am however, opposed to wearing a dress. i hate dresses and never wear them, but we voted as a class on what we would wear and unfortuntley the dress won. so....i have to suck it up and wear the dress! our instructor was telling us that the state bon was actually considering bringing back the cap and making nurses wear them while working because nowadays it is to hard to distinquish who is a nurse and who isn't. some students in my class say that if that happened they would not work as a nurse! i have only seen 2 nurses in the all hospitals and ltc facilities that i have worked in that still wear the cap.

just wondering what your thoughts are about this subject and if you are required to wear your cap for graduation.

[ZooMommyRN, ADN, RN]

We have caps and wear them at clinicals, in 6 weeks I get to trade in the orange stripe for the black stripe when we officially become 2nd years lol ours is different the the LPN's hat, I kinda like theirs better lol

[Athenas83]

I start a BSN program next month, and we are having a stethoscope ceremony before it begins, and after we are getting pinned. I think they did away with the caps a while ago. They can look cute though!

[MB37]

We need to change the image of nursing from a female profession to one that anyone can enter. Getting rid of caps is step one. If anyone thinks they should be brought back, then the men should wear them as well. Many women now have short hairstyles, if they have to wear caps then the men should too.