Nurses caps!

Ruby Vee, BSN · Oct 5, 2003

I haven't seen anyone wear a cap in about 20 years! I wore mine twice -- once to the pinning ceremony at my school 25+ years ago, and once on Halloween. I cannot imagine why anyone would WANT to wear the uncomfortable, precarious things. But if you do want to, go for it. Halloween is coming up!

Katnip, RN · Oct 5, 2003

We have a few older nurses at our hospital who wear caps. Not many. There are quite a few who wear white dresses though.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Oct 6, 2003

Not really.

acuteobrn · Oct 6, 2003

No desire what so ever, I can just imagine it getting caught in IV lines and falling off my head into messy chux while I am doing an exam, or worse yet falling onto some sterile field...just my dumb luck!!!

Just curious what does FERTMYRTOBRN mean, I have been trying to decode it for the last few days!!!!

roxannekkb · Oct 6, 2003

I've worked as a nurse in several states, and the only place I ever saw nurses wear caps was in southeast Florida. This was the 80s, and there were still hospitals there that mandated caps. I was astounded. At any rate, I soon moved to California and never again saw a nurse with a cap.

I have never worn one, my school didn't require it. I can't imagine walking around all day with that thing on your head. Obviously, I would think they disappeared for a reason, aside from infection control.

TeenyBabyRN · Oct 6, 2003

Not even on Halloween!

SmilingBluEyes · Oct 6, 2003

originally posted by fertmyrtobrn
does anyone else out there have the desire to wear the old fashion nurses caps and would you dare do it??? i have always wanted to wear one...first because i earned one....2nd, because i think they look great and distinguish us from the rest of the workers.
i was told in nursing school that the reason we do not wear them anymore is because of the infection control issue, but i would really love to get one and just wear it to work once!! lol
better yet, do you know of anybody that still wears one???? i have found a place that you can buy one and am thinking of doing it just for the fun of it! anyhoo, was just a wondering about this!!!

paulette

no desire at all. none.

my long curly red hair would nevah fit in one of those silly ole things. my behavior on the job distinguishes me as a professional; i see to it. i don't need a cap to do that for me. but to each his/her own.

live4today, RN · Oct 6, 2003

Yes, I wore my cap a lot in the late eighties, then gave it up when I started traveling around as a Travel Nurse and saw many nurses didn't wear their caps anymore.

Recently, I wore my nursing cap to work several times, and people looked at me as though they were looking in awe at an "angel". Staff and patients alike even commented on how nice and professional I looked. Several patients told me they missed the nurses wearing all whites and the caps, and they felt "safe and in good hands" when a nurse in whites with the cap took care of them. I felt like I was on cloud nine and then some that entire day as well as the second time I wore it. I keep the cap in my locker just in case I get a notion to iron my only white uniform and wear it again.

You can buy a nursing cap at http://www.kayscaps.com (I think that's right). Let me know if it isn't and I'll locate if for you.

I don't mind wearing the white uniform (plus the cap), but since I hate to iron, it takes a lot to get me to iron my uniform to wear more often.

I only had two staff (both PCTs) who said they preferred wearing scrubs. Well, since they are PCTs, they haven't earned the right to wear "the infamous nursing cap". That is a privilege ONLY nurses have earned. Anyone can wear the white uniform, but only a REAL NURSE can don the professional white nursing cap, so go ahead and don your white nursing cap if you want to, and if anyone doesn't like it, tell them you earned the right to wear that cap, and by gosh you are going to wear it as often as you want to, and you don't need their approval one way or the other. :nurse: :kiss

PSA, RN · Oct 6, 2003

There is one lady at our local hospital that still wears her cap and a nursing dress. She is in her 70's and comes in to help out when they are short handed.

wayover20 · Oct 6, 2003

When I became a nurse in the mid 70's, caps were still required at the hopital that hired me. It was "cool" for about a week. Then, as short as I am, I stood against a wall in the nurses station and the back of the cap flipped up the code blue switch and everyone came running! After realizing what happened, the laugh was on me. Soon after, the switch was encircled with a plastic cup. No, I don't miss it. The bobby pins were torture on the scalp.

RN~in~CT · Oct 6, 2003

When I was working in a physicians office, we all donned nurses caps for Nurses Day. (Caps pre-date me, but one of the nurses made us some faux caps).

The patients loved it... though I had a bad case of hat head (?cap head?) by the end of the day!

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