Stripes

[Paprikat]

I know this may be a dumb question, but I am curious. I was watching that show Emergency, the other day, and the nurses still had hats. Some nurses had one black stripe on their hats and some had two,and some had none, and I remember being a little kid and in the hospital and some nurses hats had blue stripes across. So my question is do the stripes have some significance? Thanks!

[ayemmeff]

re; the navy blue capes, zudy! when i started my rn training in 1988,they were standard issue as the hospital had an East and West 'wing',either side of a main road.i think the idea was to wear the cape if you had to walk from one wing to the other,the only time i actually remember wearing mine was that first working xmas,we thought we were the bee's knees!!!!! (it never saw the light of day again though!: ) )

[tonchitoRN]

i always hated those darn caps. in fact there was one hospital in town that required caps. i refused to do clinicals there because of the caps. they just seem too old fashion to me. i think nursing needs to get more updated.

[NurseDennie, BSN, RN]

My school had one or two caps that we used for our graduation pictures, if we wanted to.

I've always like nursey caps, and I wanted one, so I asked the instructor, and she told me the store that they'd bought the two for the pictures. They only had white, of course. I bought one a little bigger than the one in which we'd had our picture made. The little one reminded me of a student nurse cap (which of course WE didn't use at all) but the same shape. Then I went to the fabric store and picked out a bit of ribbon as close as I could find to the one in the picture, and I put it on. We were a Catholic school, and the ends of the stripes had little croses, so I found a couple of them, too.

I took the cap to show my sister a few years ago, and she still has it. She has a little "fetish" about nursey caps. LOL

Love

Dennie