Greetings all. Now that Halloween and Samhain are over for this year, I thought that I would post a few pics from this past week. Ever since I was a child, I wanted to be a nurse so I dressed up for work on Thursday in a Halloween scrub and orange cap - after all, Halloween is the one day of the year when we can pretend to be who or what we want to be at any age and it is okay ... 🎃
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Who's Harley Quinn?? ...
And, just a little throwback from a couple of years ago - I dressed up for Halloween as Harley Quinn. ...
A snap shot with my sister Aurora Skye at "Flanagan's Pub" on Halloween weekend. I actually wore a white lab coat over top of the dress with an ID tag saying, "Dr. Harleen Quinzel" and the official Harley Quinn nurses cap (not shown here) as part of my costume ...
Posing with my friend Deb while out and about on Halloween ...
Fun costumes. Aww, Charlie playing with his toy so cute. What a sweet boy
ReplyDeleteLove your red nursing cap. I should send you mine! There were 6 of us male students in my graduating class and as a joke, all the girls gifted us nursing caps. I think I still have mine somewhere. No, it was never worn. LOL I still have my nursing pin which is framed with my bachelor's degree. I never wore that, either.
ReplyDeleteCharlie is so cute. A sweetie, indeed.
Paranormal John
It seems as though female nurses no longer wear their caps anyhow these days. I am not sure why. Do you know? I am just curious. Sometimes it is hard to know who is a nurse and who is a doctor without though lol!
DeleteI wore the pink cap with my Breast Caner Awareness scrub on Saturday night in honor of my mom who had battled it a few years ago.
Wearing nursing caps went out in about the mid-70's. They were cumbersome and nurses were always getting them caught on the curtains that went around the beds. Then there was the hygiene factor. Student nurses wore caps when I was in nursing school, but by the time I graduated, most nurses were wearing scrubs, no pins and no caps. I was fortunate and didn't have to deal with any of that. I just wore scrubs and a name tag. The RN on the name tag was large so patients could help identify us, though I'm not sure that helped much. I had a patient ask me once, "Why is someone from Maintenace taking my blood pressure?" LOL.
ReplyDeleteParanormal John, RN
That is interesting. I do not work in a hospital nor with patients as you do, but I work for a surgical supply company assembling probes for eye cataract surgeries. When I began working there 5 1/2 years ago, they required all of us to wear blue coats and hair nets - the men had to also wear beard nets if they had any facial hair/beard stub, etc. They told us the reason for that was because they did not want any contamination in the product while working with it. Then, they did away with all of it saying that we no longer needed them? Frankly, I think getting rid of the hair net requirement was a mistake, but what do I know? We also are not allowed to wear perfume, nail polish, or make-up and we must have our ankles covered as well.
DeleteThank you, Paranormal John, RN :-D