In all the cap s designs there was a common black stripe usually a black velvet ribbon on the cap to signify a registered nurse.
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The caps needed to be washed regularly and the black stripe s needed to be easy to remove and reattach.
Wide black velvet stripe might indicate you graduated from st.
Mary s college of nursing two narrow black satin stripes if you graduated from university of texas whatever.
The kind of stripe and style of cap is chosen by the nursing school.
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These caps were washable as well as the black stripe was removable.
In some regions two thinner stripes were used to signify the award of a bachelors of science in nursing bsn.
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Some schools retained the colored stripes when the black stripe was added others removed them.
Student nurses typically had small stripes in blues greens or pinks on the left side of their hats one for each year in the nursing program.
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Upon graduation registered nurses added a black band across the entire width of the cap.
Usually black was for rns blue for lpns but that wasn t always exact.
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