Doing a little research on the history of nurses' caps and I came across this very nice Canadian site on the topic: "Symbol of a Profession: One Hundred Years of Nurses' Caps."
I know not too many people agree with me, but I miss the caps. I'll never even get to wear one, but I miss them, and wish I'd gotten to. They and the old uniform are symbols of how nursing used to be, and that's changed a lot. Nurses have more autonomy now, and more power, and hopefully are more help to their patients.
But I think that old uniform gave patients a good feeling. Like, ah, here's someone who knows what they're doing! This person will help me feel better. And now nurses come into a patient's room, and what is the patient thinking? Probably something like Oh, another person in scrubs. I wonder who they are and what they know and what they're gonna do?
To my mind scrubs just don't give that feeling of capability and authority that the old nursing uniform and cap did. Okay, if you're thinking about Nurse Ratched, maybe that's a good thing. :\
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