Nurse's cap
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A nurse's cap or nursing cap is part of the female nurse's uniform, introduced early in the history of the profession. The cap's original purpose was to keep the nurse's hair neatly in place and prese
Nurses wearing their caps
The German nurse in this 1939 photo wears a heavily starched nurse's cap.
Polish nurses, wearing a uniform that includes a nursing cap, care for a patient in 1993.
Pinning ceremony (nursing)
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A pinning ceremony is a symbolic welcoming of newly graduated or soon-to-be graduated nurses into the nursing profession.
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Pinning ceremony at S.C.T.C. Professional School of Nursing, Somerset, Pennsylvania, 2012
A nursing school graduate receives a nurse's pin at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, circa 1954. Head nurse Schwester Selma is second from the left.
Pinning ceremony at Nazareth College, New York, 2015
A nursing pin from California State University, Sacramento