When Did Your Hospital Stop Requiring Caps?

[Nurse1962]

Hi Everyone,

I have been surfing through various articles and came to realize that my hospital here in Illinois may have been fairly unique...

I was required to wear a cap until 1987 and we did not change over to scrubs until 1989 or so.

I thought it was the norm since several of my friends who worked at various hospitals around the area wore caps as well.

So my question is.... On what year were you allowed to toss out the cap, also the white uniform in general? Was Illinois unique?

I sure miss it, sometimes I feel like a circus act in the scrubs.

Thanks,

Judy

[prmenrs, RN]

I have ~ 3, including my special "freshman" cap, on the closet shelf. I'd like to be buried w/them. Or, if cremated, placed in the cubbie w/my urn.

Cheery thought, isn't it?

[Antikigirl, ASN, RN]

Never was required to wear a cap..actually had to buy one on my own as a momento for myself! I started nursing in 2000.

We still have some nurses that wear the whites (dress no less) and caps! But me, never...

Heck, when I was a volunteer back in the early 80's in a hospital...they didn't wear them either. I can't really remember nurses wearing those, and even nuns at this hospital wearing their uniforms! The only constant...Docs wearing the white coats!

[suebird3]

One LTC around here still has the nurses wear the caps. Now mind you, my LPN cap is cool; the cap my RN program has looked a bit cheesy. If I HAD to get one, it would be a generic one.

Suebird

[SmilingBluEyes]

I have been a nurse 9 years and have never seen any nurses in caps in the hospitals at which I have been employed. We did not get "capped" either--just pinned.