Nurses caps!

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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 :p

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The residents voted on it in residents council because they said they had trouble telling the nurses from the other staff

Dear Lord! Residents voting is a SCARY thing!! You know they voted for staff not to dress up for Halloween? That made me angry. A lot of the residents I know would have enjoyed that...oh well.

Look at me replying to the topic at hand :D

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Originally posted by cheerfuldoer

Wrinkled scrubs, mixmatched wrinkled scrubs, dirty shoes, unkempt hair, dirty fingernails, see-thru pants showing some awful looking underwear........the list is pitiful! :rolleyes:

Heck at least there WAS underwear, our facility had to have a 10 minute inservice lecture to TELL people they NEED TO WEAR UNDERWEAR. :rolleyes:

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What do graduating male nurses get? We just don't get any show headgear? :o

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Originally posted by SnowieRN

What do graduating male nurses get? We just don't get any show headgear? :o

You could always wear the white ballcap with a big ol' RN embroidered on the front of it. Heck, I'd wear that before I'd ever wear one of the "traditional" nurses caps (never have, never will!), and I'm not even a guy.

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"does anyone else out there have the desire to wear the old fashion nurses caps and would you dare do it???"

yes, i would and have.

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Yes, many of the nurses in Japan (I am from Japan) still wear caps and dress uniform with white hose. You like that way? HOw interesting!

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It's really up to you. I've seen one older nurse wear one and she wears it all the time. A long time ago that's how to distinguish a nurse. I'm young so I don't like it. It's basically personal preference.

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First I am a guy and I don't think I have ever seen a nurses' cap made for men!!

Second, just for me, it symbolizes the "old school" when nurses mopped floors, did windows, etc. (some of us may still do that just to help out, not sure) and were really treated like the doctor's handmaidens.

I think our behavior, knowledge, skill, and contribution to patient outcomes distinguishes us as nurses, hope so anyway, it does in my hospital. Just my humble opinion..

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I work with a nurse who still wears her cap

I wouldnt but its very important to her

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no way, not my thing! I went a university so I never wore one. I do, however, have a cape from then 1940's from the school of nursing (no longer open) affiliated with the 1st hospital where I practiced. My mom gave it to me when I completed one of my certifications. It 's a peace of history. I wish I knew more about it. I did work for few women who wore theirs proudly, but one used her's like a crown, to put people down. My other supervisor was elderly, but worked like a young women until her retirement, then death in our hospital. She looked strange without her cap, cross pin, & ortho shoes. But I work in critical care where what I really need is a bonnet to keep the filth off of my hair when I crawl under beds & around lines & tubes to hook things up...shoe covers too!!!:p

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I worked with an older nurse who loved her cap. Facility tried to "gently" encourage her to leave it at home. She still wore it. Then they demanded she not wear it. Took her 1 second to quit. They immediately backed off. She's still there and still wearing her cap. I'm glad they dont make everyone do this, but KUDOS to her for standing up for her rights!

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yep i admire that nurse for standing up for her right to wear the cap.

just because I HATE THEM does not make it right for facilities to ban them...

our scrubs are much dirtier than a cap would be, I would bet.

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