Rules That Were Supposed to Help But Ended up a Big Fail

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Caps, Criticism, and Corporate Cleanup

A nursing home in our area thought it would be a great idea to bring back the traditional white nursing caps. They made it mandatory for all female nurses to wear during their shifts or be written up (and eventually pointing themselves out). Male nurses were not included.

About half of the staff quit within the first two weeks, and several started working at my facility. The others who stayed said that the residents and families of residents laughed and made fun of the nurses constantly. Those are pretty degrading and sexist comments.

Basically, about three months after this all went down, someone from corporate came in and fired all the directors who implemented the uniform change, and everything went back to normal. Several nurses stayed with my company, but a few went back when the rules changed.