Medical professional clothing and spreading possible infections.

I knew that RN's and LPN did not like wearing their caps in the past few years, but I was surprised to learn that most hospitals will not ALLOW the wearing of caps. It's claimed that they can carry disease from one patient to another on their caps. Physicians wearing long neck ties is also "verboten"; again, possible source of transmission of infections.

I have a friend who puts up new curtains between patients in hospital rooms. He tells me that this is required after a patient with an infectious disease is discharged, or dies. The curtains can carry disease to new patients.

I miss seeing nurses caps, but these new rules do make sense.

Oh, and now more hospitals are using disposable stethoscopes.

The caps - especially for us male RNs - were never really worn. The problem with caps and ties is the frequency with which they are cleaned. I send my ties to the cleaners about 2x per year. If I were still seeing patients on a regular basis and my tie had something communicable on it, I would spread it forever. Same with the cap. I know my hospital even makes the OR folks wear a disposable cap over the cloth one, if they choose to wear a cloth one. Same idea.

Somewhere I heard that drs necktie was overgrown with multiple bugs