[ChayaN]

Not speaking for the OP, but as someone who wears skirts, I would be OK wearing pants under the skirt. The point of wearing a skirt is not to show the split in the legs, so if you're wearing a skirt on top of pants the split wouldn't show.
In any event, wearing a skirt with no pantyhose underneath would be just as immodest to me as wearing pants.

[cer]

I have never seen an absolute rule on this, however pants are preferred. We do have a nurse that wears dresses for religious reasons and we furnish her scrub dresses.

I follow that we require hose for wear with dresses. We also require warm up jackets buttoned for circulators to cover thier arms,

It is aslo safer to have as mcu skin as possible covered, less chance of exposure.

[Nutmeg5575]

I hate dresses/skirts. I have just always been a pants person. Plus it is too cold in the OR to wear skirts imo hehe.

I think you should bring this up in the interview, b/c it is an issue and you are not at fault for your religious beliefs. No one can blame you, they can help you come up with solutions though.

And LOL @ all of the Va-J-J fallout comments!

[nellie_nurse812]

Heck, We have to tuck our shirts in for "fallout" can you imagine the "fallout" with a skirt? LOL

[MoriahRoseRN]

Good info and entertaining comments posted here. For GP I will post the reason for me wearing skirts; I am not posting this for a debate. I wear skirts according to Deuteronomy 22:5. Also I do this because of my desire to please the Lord.

[DNRme]

Many moons ago I worked in an OR where the female staff was not provided w/pants. We had to wear dresses. It was a real joy to try to not provide entertainment while crawling on the floor for cords and climbing up on a stool to hang to bags of saline near the ceiling (b4 arthroscopy pumps). I can't imagine circulating in a dress anymore.

[subee]

What stupid policies - the law of gravity applies to perineal droppings as well as to feathers. Wearing pants isn't going to make once iota of difference unless you wrap the pants right on the ankles. A skirt with pantyhose will keep a lot less material from the floor than pants.

[Marie_LPN]

Ours have the knit cuff at the bottom. The docs do not.

[ChevRN]

I don't see any problem with women wearing dresses in the OR providing they are wearing pantyhose. They make culottes and walking shorts which go just above the knee, which could be worn with hose, and there would be none of these concerns about 'perineal fallout'. Culottes are more versatile than skirts so are walking shorts.

[RNERHOUSESUPOR]

Many of you may not remember but there used to be scrub dresses that the nurses wore in the OR. They were quite the outfit. It was a wrap around design simular to a scrub gown only they tied in front. It was 20 years ago that I last remember seeing. Some of the OB Nurses were quite attractive in those.