Securing that nursing cap!

? Wow I havent seen Nursing caps since around the late 70's! We wore them for our grad pics but that was it. Otherwise I havent seen anyone wearing them since then. More of an infection control issue wearing caps actually for that very reason. Cant really wash them and they do fall off and also can harbor bacteria.

Wow, did this question get asked 40 years ago and mysteriously pop back into this board? I think we have an X-File on our hands!

Ha, I'm actually going traditional for Halloween, I got my dickies white dress and a cap from a nice lady on ebay. I have tried a bit with the cap and the pins but am having not much luck by myself. Is it a 2-person job?

Ha, I'm actually going traditional for Halloween, I got my dickies white dress and a cap from a nice lady on ebay. I have tried a bit with the cap and the pins but am having not much luck by myself. Is it a 2-person job?

LOL, you caught us off gaurd on this one I was thinking "Who the heck wears caps now?"

Securing a nurse's cap is no different than attaching a wedding veil or any other head covering with hair pins.

Simply insert the pins through the loops provided (in OP's case) and down into hair. For added security one can use two pins on each side cross linked. Ages ago on used to be able to find white hairpins made just for nurses, but doubt if they are still around. Try eBay.

Caps are still around. Some old school doctors insist nurses in their clinics, offices, or hospitals were them. Add to this many nurses in Mexico, South America, and parts of Asia (such as China and Japan), still wear caps whilst on duty, floors,units and sundry. Kay's caps is still in business and must be shipping all those caps someplace! *LOL*

Orginally caps were washable, and often either the hospital laundry did them with nurse's other laundry, or there was always a "French" or "Chinese" hand laundry near every hospital that did the washing and more importantly starching and ironing. The newer caps made from various types of board material were another matter.

Some schools then and still now so restricted their caps, nurses who moved out of the area had to send their caps back to whatever laundry the school used, if not the school itself when it was time for cleaning. Even today it is very hard to get one's hands on certian caps. Kays, IIRC does have a vast pattern archive and some stock of many schools, but one must furnish proper references in order to purchase.

Oh gosh, cannot believe Holloween is soon. Many uniform stores in this area sell out of nurses uniforms (and caps), around this holiday.

Kay's Caps even has the bobby pins! :) http://www.kayscaps.com/index.html

Have a nice Halloween!

When I trained and worked in the UK during the 1980s, we had to wear paper caps... so they were disposable, but always fell off anyway. Later I had a cotton lacy cap that was supposed to be starched (mine was not) but it was washable. Either way, as soon as anyone in authority had disappeared, we took our caps off... Ha! Ha!

Maybe someone should tell Kay's it is Bobby Pins, not "Bob Pins"! *LOL*

http://www.goody.com/Products/Accessories/Barrettes/Sport/Sport.aspx

you might try something like this...never used them for a nursing cap but I find they stay put better than bobby pins...

I graduated in a white nursing cap! :) We had white bobby pins too. I think a white dress and cap is perfect for halloween! I just might use that idea. Now I can finally put on that white dress from graduation! Ha!

For my NCLEX class we had some students come down from Los Angeles. Their school required white dresses and white nursing caps during clinical in the hospitals. I just graduated in 2008 so this wasn't long ago.

I wore a cap for a short time after nursing school in the 80's but it was too hot and itchy. I have a rather large head and the cap really didn't fit well. I reasoned that these things were originally designed to fit on a bun so I had the best success to keep to darn thing on by pulling a bunch of hair into a ponytail with an elastic and wind it into a bun.

Cap on top of bun, then I crossed 2 bobby pins at each corner (no loops on my cap). Having my hair pulled taut with the elastic helped keep the pins in place.

Some nurses sewed a little comb inside of their caps to help keep it in place.