nursing caps

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I'm in a RN program and it is required for us to wear our caps.

We hate it What do you think?

Did you have to wear one? and What year was it?

To keep the hair under control and to show status.

I can frencH braid my hair AND wash it every day-can you say the same for a CAP???

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today i see people losing all pride in their schools of nursing. i think that is sad and a poor commentary of the respect people have for their education.

i think that is a classic quote right there. there are a lot of nurses who went to a college or a university so there wouldn't be a school of nursing to respect. i respect my bachelor's degree in nursing every day by the job i do and how i care for my patients and treat my co-workers.

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Specializes in cardiac med-surg.

i am proud of my education, school of nursing and my profession

my pride is inside me in my heart and outside on the smile on my face

i choose to not wear white and the respect i receive starts with the respect i have for myself

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Specializes in HH, Psych, MR/DD, geriatric, agency.

I received my cap in March 2003. From that point forward, we wore our caps to class AND clinicals. I went to a very strict, old-school program. We had to be in full uniform, even in class. We had spot-checks on our uniforms. Once, I didn't have my scissors in my pocket (during CLASS) and was made to leave the school until I had them. I went down the street, bought a new set of scissors and went back to class.

I could not find the article in the local newspaper for my capping, but here is the link to the last class being capped... http://www.mountvernonnews.com/local/06/03/22/nurses.html

During clinicals, we had to wear those awful white bibs on the front of the shirts.

I do wear white scrubs when I'm on the floor. I've found that it eliminates the "Where can I find a nurse?" or "Are you a nurse?" questions. Most LPNs I've worked with do the same.

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tg we did not have to in 1984-87

my hair was about 1 cm long

how would you attach a cap to that

crazy glue for crazy hat

I never wore a cap. Like you, my hair is, well short, about the same as yours. We have to wear white were I work. I want to find a cap to wear, or super glue to my head. Were can I find one??? :w00t: :w00t: :w00t:

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I can frencH braid my hair AND wash it every day-can you say the same for a CAP???

We had to use a clean cap each day - starched cloth, not paper. I'm not saying they were essential for reasons of hygiene but the standards today have slipped enormously with nurses wearing their hair every which way.

I realise I'm in the minority here, but I think hair trailing down a nurse's back is very unprofessional.

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Every now and again I'd drag out one or the other of the ones I have. Sometimes you feel like a nut sometimes a Nurse. I don't rightly know where any of them are now. I do have a cape also. Got it on eBay for $20.

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I like the nostalgia of nursing caps. I don't like the fact that nurses, CNAs, docs, and housekeeping all wear the same thing and cannot be distinguished from one another except by their name tags.

That being said, hats are an infection control issue and just get in the way. I would also like someone to explain to me the rationale and history of putting women, primarily of childbearing age, in white.

Can you tell, I still am in love with the doc that did my hysterectomy.

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Specializes in Ambulatory | Management | Informatics.

I did my first clinicals at that facility (I'm pretty sure it's the same one!) :)

I worked thru an agency at a facility in RI, which shall remain nameless.

I was scheduled for night shift, and went over to check the place out the day before I was scheduled.

My first thought was that I had accidently walked into a movie set.

My second thought was that I had somehow lapsed into the Twilight Zone.

My third was that it was a costume party.

Nope. None of those. It was privately owned, and the owner insisted that its nurses, and med techs wear caps and white uniforms, I was told by the white uniformed director of nurses with her starched cap. Believe it. It really happened, and I am sure it continues. I will admit that they sure did look professional!

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I can frencH braid my hair AND wash it every day-can you say the same for a CAP???

Absolutely! Our school cap opened out flat for easy laundering. We dipped them in thick starch and stuck them on mirrors to dry overnight. No ironing was required. The stripes were "glued" on with KY jelly.

It was no problem at all to have a clean cap every day.

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Specializes in Neuro ICU, Neuro/Trauma stepdown.
The stripes were "glued" on with KY jelly.

we did this for the caps we used at pinning and i thought it was outlandish!

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I was also required to wear a cap during nursing school as a LVN in the early 70's and as a RN in the early 80's. Once pinning was over, I never put the thing on my head again. Our school did away with cap the next year. The nurses cap was design to replace the veil that was worn in years past. They were worn as a symbol of subservance to the doctors. What other profession do you know of that has such a silly and demeaning requirment. In the early 70's we were also taught not to sit in the presence of a doctor in the nurses' station. We all had to stand up as long as they were present. We were treated like a servant by most doctors in those day and given very little credit for our knowledge. I for one am glad that time have changed and we are treated with more equality in our scrubs that we ever were in our white starched uniform and cap.

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