i can renember seeing nurses in big paper caps in the 1970s and 1980s in england but then petering out in the 1990s , do any nurses any where still wear caps?
2007-02-16 01:30:19 · 5 answers · asked by tannerboy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Caps used to indicated the nursing school they went to. They serve no real pupose and have fallen out of style. in some cases, they might even get in the way of some medical instruments, wires, cables, tubes, etc.
2007-02-16 01:37:45 · answer #1 · answered by bumppo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
About 15 to 20 years ago this was made an option.The nurses were allowed to wear scrub suits .The cap was used with the white uniforms.Some older nurses still wear caps and most nursing school still award the caps at completion of the training along with the deploma.
Some nursing supervisors still wear them.
2007-02-16 01:45:11 · answer #2 · answered by blakree 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was told in 1992, my first year as a student nurse in Wales, to stop wearing my cap as it was no longer compulsory. I think nurses wear them in the forces and in private health care.
2007-02-18 04:15:55 · answer #3 · answered by Bunny 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is so interesting you ask this question. On Wednesday next i visit paintings my final day in the well-being facility after 37 years. I truthfully have already cried, so i wish i do no longer do it anymore. that is been a protracted, interesting adventure. i became into so proud while i became into capped on commencement, i became into informed we provide up wearing them because of the fact they have been given caught on issues and the babies in pediatrics have been continually pulling them off.yet my standard ingredient became into to rustle once I walked down the hallway. It became into no longer starched cotton petticoats as in the very beginning up, yet taffeta wash and positioned on of the 1970s. I felt as though I have been in a 1940 action picture and 0.5 predicted Ronald Coleman or somebody the two appealing back jogging down the hallway. I did meet a handsome fly boy in the hallway for the period of Vietnam. i became into nevertheless working for the purple bypass then and not yet a nurse. It became into my husband who had come back from his venture early with a broken toe and had checked in on the well-being facility on the way domicile. I in all probability will cry lower back, that is like a marriage, while that is finally over it is so stressful to have self assurance.consistently feels like this variety of short, jiffy.
2016-11-23 12:54:36 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes,and skirts...they think it's more modern,bring back the old uniform.
2007-02-16 01:36:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋