“Ma’am, can I borrow a cap of one of your students?”

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This was the question of one staff nurse as soon as I went inside the nurses’ station of the medical ward where we have our duty on. The female nurse is that one who acts so superior and even acts like the CI of my students, often ignoring my presence; but this morning, she was all smiles while asking me if she can borrow one nurse’s cap of my students. Professionally, I declined and told her that I won’t lend her any cap from my students because the nurse’s cap is part of their uniform (they are senior nursing students). Right there and then, the smile from the nurse’s lips went off, and she left the station. In my mind, I replied that since the nurse’s cap is the symbol of our profession, it is not right to “lend our profession to others”, even if we are of the same profession. The students earned their caps by being good in their studies; why then that some staff nurses don’t have their personal caps to use? (I notice many nurse’s caps scattered anywhere in the nurse’s station, and maybe that nurse was not able to get one for herself). I have my own nurse’s cap, complete with 3 hair clips.