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I graduated in 1982 and have never owned a nursing cap. Our nursing instructors said that they would not attend our pinning ceremony if we included capping and candle light vigil. They were very modern in their thinking and told us that both the capping and candle light portion of the ceremony denoted the "old school" that depicted nurses as the doctors handmaidens (I don't think anyone out there believes the handmaiden sh_ _).

In our CCU it takes approx. 5 minutes per patient. We normally have one or two patients, at the most three. We do a bedside report. We have a timeline sheet on the chart with a short H & P, diagnosis, MD's and what has happened since the patient has been hospitalized. This way, the nurse taking report doesn't have to write everything down (this saves alot of time).

Our hospital gave us these great plastic pens with RN on the cap. Their generosity never ends. One year, it was arranged for us to clean up a park across the street from the hospital. Needless to say, they never planned a day in the park again. One year we received a key chain (one of those little ring things) with the name of the hospital on it.