So I Wore my Cap Today

[SuesquatchRN]

Heh. The residents loved it. LOVED it. And I felt quite -- polished.

The other nurses said that if they had to wear them they'd quit.

[elkpark]

To keep on topic- our cap was absurd but not duck a*%^ absurd. I loved it when I first visited the school and saw it. When I had to wear it... not so much. Cute, comfy ehough, but not flattering to my face. As an RN I had 4 caps- 2 from my school and 2 conventional caps that looked better on me and were easier to pin on. I liked Goody sports clips barrettes to hold it on (those triangle shaped ones that snap on and off) With 4 caps I could rotate and keep them clean. Only once did my cap get messy- some pink tylenol got on it.

Don't get me wrong -- I loved my cap (still do), and was/am proud to wear it (and I think it's adorable -- looks like a fancy folded party napkin on top of your head!); I just objected to the mushy "dove of peace" symbolism nonsense. The school really laid it on thick -- the three pleats in the back were also supposed to symbolize three qualities of the perfect nurse, "duty, service, and integrity" or something like that -- aaaaarrrrgh!! (Isn't it enough that it's the school's cap -- can't we just leave it at that???)

[Orca, ADN, ASN, RN]

The caps that my nursing school used (they dropped them a couple of years before I went through) looked like something from the Coneheads on Saturday Night Live. As a male I would never have had to wear one, but I was glad that my female classmates were spared the embarrassment. Some of the portraits on the wall of former nursing classes were almost laughable when you looked at the hats.

I hope that whoever designed that hat has to wear one in public 24-7.