DECATUR - 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 nursing ...

Calling the cap "subservient" and "sexist" is, as one reader pointed out: ...putting a 21st century spin on something of which you have no experience. The nurses who wore them in the days when ...

Gena Oppenheim, a nurse in the intensive care unit of Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Los Angeles, tended to her patient, Jessica Flores.Credit... Supported by Photographs by Isadora ...

The feminist movement or "women's liberation" had a significant role in the saga of the nurse's cap from that time onward. Why do we care what happened to the cap? The comments by readers ...