Eventually, the nursing cap came to be seen as impeding on patient care. In the 1980s, with the introduction of “scrubs” in the medical profession and the desire for a unisex uniform, the cap ...

DECATUR, Ill. (AP) — It was once an iconic symbol. Upon graduation from nursing school, a newly minted nurse would receive her cap as a symbol of her success and entrance into the profession of ...

The cap was fashioned to look like a nun's habit; nuns were the first nurses, and the calling to be a nurse was once closely tied to the church and Jesus' admonition to nurse the sick from Matthew 25.

The article we published on Medscape in May 2011, What Happened to the Cap: The Dawn of the Cap, and the accompanying slideshows spanned the cap's heyday -- from the late 19th century until the ...