Love those Nursing Caps..

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Really I loved my nursing hat when I was in school. We moved recently and I haven't been able to find my nursing hat.. I'm really sad about this since I really loved mine so much.. I have been looking on the internet and scrub uniform books to see if I could order one, and haven't been ablr to find anything. Does anyone know a phone # or a http://www.... That I could go to , to get me another hat?

Thanks for the help

Dawn

Specializes in Community Health Nurse.
Really I loved my nursing hat when I was in school. We moved recently and I haven't been able to find my nursing hat.. I'm really sad about this since I really loved mine so much.. I have been looking on the internet and scrub uniform books to see if I could order one, and haven't been ablr to find anything. Does anyone know a phone # or a www.... That I could go to , to get me another hat?

Thanks for the help

Dawn

I'd be happy to sell you a nursing cap I bought a couple years ago, but it still looks brand new......you wouldn't know it was worn a few times. :) I also have white uniforms that are brand new (a couple months old, but only worn twice) that I am willing to sell. Anyone want them, send me a "PM". :)

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I'm sorry, Rock. Are you making fun of me? I thought you wanted to know where to get a new cap? :crying2:

I am not making fun of anyone. I only wanted to express my desire to see caps, capes and white uniforms return to nursing, as it was when I first started.

I have no use for a cap or a cape, but it looked so professional when the female nurses wore them.

:nurse: :balloons:

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Specializes in ED, MED-SERG, CCU, ICU, IPR.

So do I.

I am not making fun of anyone. I only wanted to express my desire to see caps, capes and white uniforms return to nursing, as it was when I first started.

I have no use for a cap or a cape, but it looked so professional when the female nurses wore them.

:nurse: :balloons:

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In the old days nurses had to wear caps and it was awful. My cap would get stuck in the privacy curtains and I would get dreadful headaches from wearing a cap. I was going to apply for a job 3 years ago in a West Virginia nursing home. When I found out that nurses were required to wear nursing caps I decided not to apply after all. :angryfire

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In the old days nurses had to wear caps and it was awful. My cap would get stuck in the privacy curtains and I would get dreadful headaches from wearing a cap. I was going to apply for a job 3 years ago in a West Virginia nursing home. When I found out that nurses were required to wear nursing caps I decided not to apply after all. :angryfire

I know how you feel. I wear my cap and yes, it gets knocked off from time to time. But, other than that, I find that it sets me apart just a tad from other nurses and we all have our own ways of standing apart from others.

I have not heard that some places "require" caps in many years. Good for you for not going there if it makes you uncomfortable.

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Does anyone know how to keep a nursing cap on your head? I'm using bobby pins but is there a certain way to keep it tight on your head. Thanks!!

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praise god i'm not the only person in the world that has a classical view on this issue! when graduation time came this spring, i was mortified to think that we had to wear just our plain ole dumpy white scrubs for our pinning ceremony!

you see, my sister graduated as a nurse 14 years ago and i've looked at her picture with her nursing dress and cap and have marvelled at the tradition,honor, and hard work those uniforms represent. to me, it's like a soldier who dresses in his/her military dress best (badges of honor and courage, traditional caps, hats, spats....the whole nine yards). oh how proud i am to see a man/woman dressed in their military best at their wedding, at a funeral/memorial or whatever special occasional!

i find myself waxing nostalgic and brimming with respect and esteem for those who honor the historical significance of their profession by uniformly displaying their place in our society. as professionals, imho, we only serve to uplift the value of the term "professional" by representing our colleages and predecessors.

as far as everyday working conditions, i do prefer to wear my scrubs, however, i try to find ones that fit well and i wear my name/title proudly.

i'm not against anyone with an opposing issue on this as i, too, believe in "too each his own". i only hope that those who choose to wear traditional dress/cap, especially for ceremonies and special events, are not shunned/forbade to do so.

thanks for this thread!

nikki

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i love that travel trunk site.. never heard of it before.. it's cool.. thank you , i showed the site to my mom who was anurse for 50 years and she loves it ..

thanks again

bethany RN

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Does anyone know how to keep a nursing cap on your head? I'm using bobby pins but is there a certain way to keep it tight on your head. Thanks!!

OK, here goes. Take one large safety pin and pin it to the inside front edge of your cap in the middle. To this you will attach a large bobby pin (like the kind we used to use to hold rollers). Next take a piece of kleenex and fold it into a square. Pin this square to the top of your head with two small bobbypins. You may need to adjust kleenex placement to get cap situated where you want it. Now take cap and prepare to place on head by sliding the large bobby pin onto the square of kleenex. Flip cap into place and secure with one small bobby pin on either side of the back of the cap. Your cap will now be immovable even in hurricane force winds. You will, however, notice a small bald spot forming on the top of your head. This cannot be helped and should be viewed as just another sacrifice you will make as a nurse (along with back pain and vericose veins):lol2:

On a side note, how many people had different caps for school and graduation? Our school cap was huge (we frequently poked the eyes out of poor unsuspecting visitors in the elevator) and I once got my head stuck in all the lines my ICU patient had and had to be removed by one of my peers (not such a stellar moment I might add). We could identify what year a student was by the cap. Plain white was a Freshman. One blue stripe was a Junior (no Sophomores in this school) and two blue stripes was a senior. Boy did we feel like big stuff running around the hospital with those two stripes...little did we know. Our graduation cap, however, was one of those upside down souffle cup things that that one old nurse on General Hospital used to wear (can't remember her name). We secured that to our head with this huge, sharp hat pin. Thankfully my cap does not fit under my flight helmet and looks a litle ridiculous with the Nomex suit so I don't have to wear it but I still have it and will never throw it away.

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OK, here goes. Take one large safety pin and pin it to the inside front edge of your cap in the middle. To this you will attach a large bobby pin (like the kind we used to use to hold rollers). Next take a piece of kleenex and fold it into a square. Pin this square to the top of your head with two small bobbypins. You may need to adjust kleenex placement to get cap situated where you want it. Now take cap and prepare to place on head by sliding the large bobby pin onto the square of kleenex. Flip cap into place and secure with one small bobby pin on either side of the back of the cap. Your cap will now be immovable even in hurricane force winds. You will, however, notice a small bald spot forming on the top of your head. This cannot be helped and should be viewed as just another sacrifice you will make as a nurse (along with back pain and vericose veins):lol2:

On a side note, how many people had different caps for school and graduation? Our school cap was huge (we frequently poked the eyes out of poor unsuspecting visitors in the elevator) and I once got my head stuck in all the lines my ICU patient had and had to be removed by one of my peers (not such a stellar moment I might add). We could identify what year a student was by the cap. Plain white was a Freshman. One blue stripe was a Junior (no Sophomores in this school) and two blue stripes was a senior. Boy did we feel like big stuff running around the hospital with those two stripes...little did we know. Our graduation cap, however, was one of those upside down souffle cup things that that one old nurse on General Hospital used to wear (can't remember her name). We secured that to our head with this huge, sharp hat pin. Thankfully my cap does not fit under my flight helmet and looks a litle ridiculous with the Nomex suit so I don't have to wear it but I still have it and will never throw it away.

I would make one small addition -- a gauze pad, or, even better, a Telfa pad (I recommend the 2x2 or 2x3 sizes), will be a sturdier foundation than the Kleenex and one Telfa pad will last you a very long time (as I recall, one box of Telfa pads got me all the way through nursing school with pads to spare).

The "upside down souffle cup thing" is (used to be, back when we all recognized the various caps and where they originated) known as "the Bellevue fluff" (which I always thought was a marvelous name for a cap), since it was originally the cap associated with the Bellevue Hosp SON in NYC, one of the first three "real" schools of nursing in the US (although other schools adopted the same style as the years rolled by).

At my school, the freshman wore plain caps, juniors had a light blue (matching the student uniforms) velvet stripe, and seniors had a black velvet stripe. Yes, it was quite the deal to get that black velvet stripe on your cap! Graduates wore plain caps. I still have my two strips of blue and black velvet ribbon that were the stripes on my cap (and, yes, on the rare occasions when I wear whites, I wear "real" uniforms (not scrubs) and my cap, very proudly).

I've never heard of a school having one cap for students and a different cap for graduates -- how interesting.

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Thank you so much for replying. Gradauation is this friday and I keep looking at my nursing cap wondering how this thing could stay put on my head. :mortarboard::nurse:

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I am pretty young but have to agree! I love the idea of the Nursing caps. I know around here nobody still wears them but I hope to get to wear one for graduation at least. Also the comment someone made about not being able to tell one profession from another, oh my goodness I am glad someone else agrees:lol2: Seems like every job around here people are wearing srubs.....even the daycares, kitchen staff, office workers you name it they are wearing them! Don't get me wrong I have nothing agaisnt them.It is just all the sudden it looks like there are 50 million nurses and doctors running around town:uhoh21:

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