how do you keep a nursing cap on?

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I don't want this to turn into a thread about whether or not nursing caps should be worn (lord knows there's about 200 threads like that, on this board, already!), but I do have a question:

For those of y'all who have worn caps, or who still do... how do you keep them on? Is there some kind of bobby-pinning trick?

Specializes in Geriatrics, LTC.
Originally posted by greer128

Truthfully I have never ever worn mine, bought it just for the sake of having one with my school colors on it....never had nursing pics taken...didn't have the $$, and none of my family offered to help me get them. :( Oh well...not the end of the world.

Oops wasn't not supposed to be a mad smiley thought it would make the frowning one.

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When I had to wear one (and I know I'm about to get a lot of flack for this, but I actually enjoyed wearing mine), I used 2 bobby pins and they did the trick. I had them at the back of my cap. I had medium length, straight as a board hair. Now my poor cap is wrapped in plastic sitting on my book shelf looking at me. Somedays I do miss wearing. Notice I said SOME. Best of luck to you.

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Specializes in Women's health & post-partum.

>>For those of y'all who have worn caps, or who still do... how do you keep them on?

With difficulty. LOL. I used most of the tricks the others did, except I didn't care if the pins showed, and was never called on it....:)

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Like fab4fan I used folded tissue pinned to my head with 2 bobby pins. The tissue I used though was facial or toilet tissue. Cheaper and more easily replaced every day. Then we used a bobby pin threaded thru the front label and attached this to the foled tissue stuck to our heads. 2 pins at the back of the cap(usually white, but sometimes any old pin becasue that's what you had) completed the ensemble.

I remember many headaches that originated under that crisscrossed bobbypin pad which kept the cap from falling off of my head! I could still feel the sore spot from hair pulling several hours after I removed the cap. Once I removed my cap after graduation I only ever put it back on once, for a Halloween costume. I kept one clean cap, just in case I ever needed one-although i can't imagine ever putting one on. I turned down a great job offer 10 years ago because the nursing staff wore caps.

When I moved a few years ago I came across my old cap in that round plastic cap holder. The cap had yellowed over the years, but the white bobby pins in the container were still bright white.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

We wore ours in nursing school...it was always caught on something LOL

Bobby pin the back and cross them in an X. Ours had this little tag in the front and we would put one thru there too. And be prepared to have a wopper headache.

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A couple of pieces of stainless steel implanted under the scalp, and a magnetic strip glued inside the cap should work!

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Specializes in Emergency Room.

I'd say, if you can't keep it on, will they make you wear it.....

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Specializes in pre hospital, ED, Cath Lab, Case Manager.

Ours were held on by hat pins. If you had long hair the hat pins went through the bun or what ever. If your hair was short, wads of paper bobby pinned to your hair, then hat pins through the paper and with both ... white bobby pins. They still got lost. I got in trouble as a student when mine went flying off as I ran for a code cart.

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Dermabond!

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

My trick was the folded tissue one, one ply of kleenex, folded to a rectangle about 1"x1 1/2", held w/ 2 bobby pins on the ends, placed on RATTED hair (that was important!!, hurt less), then a longer, stronger bobby pin, top thru the little tape loop inside the cap, bottom part of the big bobby pin thru the tissue/hair business.

I did it for years, then all of a sudden--NO CAPS! I still have some in my closet, nostalgia, ya know.

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Specializes in Trauma,ER,CCU/OHU/Nsg Ed/Nsg Research.

One of my clinical sites required students to wear caps when I was in nursing school. Here's how we kept them on (Ala' Nurse Ivy- an 85-year-old instructor): there's a tag on the inside front of your cap. Make an X with 2 white bobbie pins,attach them to the tag and secure the cap to your hair with a sliding motion toward the back of your head. Then, on each side of the cap( toward the back),attach 2 more "X'd" bobbie pins. This should be enough to secure the albatross to your head.

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Originally posted by debbie17368

Here they make you wear it if you are new at the hospital and only for the first 90 days.

What is that about? Some kind of initiation ritual? :eek: :confused: :eek:

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