1. When you went to school did you have a cap?


2. Do you still have your cap?


3. Do you know anyone anywhere who still wears a cap?


4. do you wear your school pin?

I miss the caps. They were a pain to wear, but I miss them. There was some pride about your school by wearing your cap.

P.S.  I do remember tho how proud i was when i did receive mine

1. When you went to school did you have a cap? Yes we had caps and wore then for pinning. This is the only time I have worn mine. I hated wearing it even then.
   
    


2. Do you still have your cap? Yes, I still have my cap. It's in a ziploc back hanging on my bedroom wall, held up by a push pin. LOL
   
    


3. Do you know anyone anywhere who still wears a cap? There is one nurse at the hospital I use to work at that wears her cap everyday that she works. She is an older nurse.
   
    


4. do you wear your school pin? I got a school pin, but have been too afraid to wear it to work. I'm afraid I'll lose it, and it cost me $100 bucks. But, I'm thinking what good does it do sitttin in a box on my dresser?
   
    

Yes! go for that RN pin. I went from LPN to RN. You will never be sorry. I do not wear my pin often. I am so afraid of losing it. It was way to expensive. Now, I feel silly because I have an expensive pin sitting in my jewlry box.

Ah yes, my nursing cap - proudly worn with 4 scallops across the top and a thin black band - recieved in a capping ceremony at which time it had to be worn plain white until after graduation and attaining the RN licensure, then the black band was added. We were all so happy to have it. It caught on bed-surround curtains, got knocked askew many times daily, had to be bleached regularly to get it white again, required a comb in the front to pull hair out by the roots and 4 white bobbie pins in the back to hold it in place. It was a proud tradition and it marked a nurse from way down the hall as the person who would provide compassionate care, a listening ear, a backrub with a tender touch, and professional mannerisms while providing the very best of bedside nursing.

I have 4 caps in a plastic bag on the shelf in my closet, with black bands and white bobbie pins. Some local nursing homes require their nurses to wear a cap when on duty - along with white uniforms and proper duty shoes!!!! I wore my cap on all jobs that required it. I miss wearing it and what it signified. But in my present position it is not required, the employer does not want us wearing caps in any capacity of nursing, and it just does not go with scrubs and sneakers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I no longer wear my pin, but I did for many years and it went through the washing machine several times causing some damage to the surface. Now the lanyard with picture name tag says it all. I have a collection of name pins with my name and RN after it.

The "good, old days" and tradition have given way to modern times. I am pleased that all local hospitals now require nurses to wear navy and white and it must be uniform tops and bottoms, not just whatever a nurse chooses to exhibit her own personality style. All departments in all local hospitals now wear the same color of uniform to mark their job - and you can go from one hospital system to another to the third and know what a person's job is from a glance, way down the hall. This is a good thing and way too long in coming.

YES!! I have two nurse's caps: one from my LVN (LPN) program from which I graduated in 1981, and the one from my RN program from which I graduated in 1990.  Both caps are significant to me, but the RN cap is the most significant. I was a single mom when I entered the RN program and money was very tough to come by. When it came time to graduate, I asked the department secretary if I could use the cap the department had on hand in which soon-to-be graduates used to have their graduation photos taken.  Mrs. Graves simply smiled, reached under her desk and handed me a beautifully wrapped box. Inside was my graduate nurse's cap. The department secretaries had pooled their funds and purchased my cap for me.  I proudly wore that cap to my graduation and for the next five years at various nursing jobs I held.

  I now tell my LVN students to proudly wear their caps at their graduation ceremonies because they have earned the right and priviledge to wear it!  Sometimes, I wish nurses still wore their caps on the job!  They gave us such distinction and dignity.  When I think of it, I wear my cap in May during nurse's week.

 I no longer have either my LVN or RN nursing pin. Both were stolen in home invasion robberies (1985 & 1995). I mourned the loss of both. My LVN was earned under great personal duress in my home life, so its loss was particularly significant.  I am now in the process of earing a MSN with an emphasis in education, so prehaps once again I'll be able to wear a nursing school pin.

As an LPN we had caps and yes i still have mine after 8 years. As an RN we graduated with just pins no uniforms or caps.

Bren: I never knew that about the sleeve lengths and stripes. Love it. Oh the things we used to do to ourselves.I heard about giving up your seat for a doc before. I guess that it is a very good thing that I was in school at a later age. I would have been fired. No way would I bow down. Still, I wish that I had a cap.

I still wear my pin, but not my cap however most nurses wear I work are gov't employees and wear a cap and apron til they have 2 years experience. Then they are allowed to wear white uniforms. The white indicates a fully qualified staff nurse and everyone in the area knows and gives you alot of respect . They address you as nurse.....so and so not by your first name and the MD calls you nurse ....so and so too. It is old fashioned but so is the hospital as it is run under the British System of staff nurses, sisters, matrons etc,  

I guess the days of white dresses, hose and caps are gone.

P.S. I knew of an LPN once who wore a type of cap.  It was made from a bleach bottle cut so that the bottom could be turned up and out so she could bleach it down.  She wore the ribbon across the front and taped to the back.  Looked like a real cap.      I did this once for a Halloween party.  Hair in a bun, beach bottle cap, scrubs, BP cuff around my arm, stethoscope around my neck, tons of pens on a lanyard around my neck.  Better than Naughty Nurse! 

I graduated from LPN school in 1986, I was a pregnant recently divorced mother and worked while in a full time program....I was VERY proud of my PIn and CAP...every school had a different style of cap and mine was a "modified dutchman with a single long navy stripe" and I wore it proudly as long as I could ..I still have 2 of them and I remember how my aunt taught me to wash, starch, iron and fold them(you only got one shot at the folding or the starch was ruined) we used to dry them on the side of the Norge!!! I still have and wear my pin but not as part of my uniform..I had it made into a pendant...I will do the same next spring when I get my RN pin( Excelsior College does not give out caps anymore either)
Thanks for the trip down memory lane

Check out this fun site:
http://www.son.wisc.edu/alumni/history/historical_collections/caps/massgen.html

cdnurse says ...

 

Do you have a nurse’s cap?
 

1. When you went to school did you have a cap?


2. Do you still have your cap?


3. Do you know anyone anywhere who still wears a cap?


4. do you wear your school pin?

I graduated nursing school in 2000 with my ASN. We received our nursing caps at graduation. It was a topic of discussion with our graduating class, whether to have them or not (the faculty wanted to know). Majority WANTED the caps. I think even though we never wear them, it's a token of our hard work, not only in school but in our career. I have it nicely displayed on one of my shelves.  I do know of ONE nurse I used to work with when I was a CNA. She was a nurse in her 60's, who was very old school...wore her cap and her white dress. ;)

I do wear my school pin :)