Securing that nursing cap!

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Specializes in Dialysis.

Mine has one small loop of fabric on either side behind the temples where I assume I will use bobby pins. Are these bobby pins really going to secure my cap to my head? How have others been able to keep their nursing cap on for hours at a time?

Thanks

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Specializes in jack of all trades.

? 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.

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Specializes in CVICU.

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! :idea:

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Specializes in Dialysis.

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?

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Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

when i began nursing, whites and cap were mandatory. my hair is baby fine and one suggestion shared by an older nurse was to glue a smallish square of white felt to the cap's inside, then pin it to the felt and the cap. that held it farly well most of the time.

sharpeimom:paw::paw:

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Specializes in jack of all trades.
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 :yeah: I was thinking "Who the heck wears caps now?"

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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.

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Specializes in Neurology.

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

Have a nice Halloween!

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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!

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

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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...

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Specializes in med/surg/tele/neuro/rehab/corrections.

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! :D

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.

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