[steelersRN]

Hey do nurses wear all the same color uniforms at your hospital? why or why not?

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Diana

[Tangerine Lipgloss]

No. I just posted a thread about uniforms two minutes ago too. LOL

[Crux1024]

No, but our patient surveys say the pts. t are very confused anymore with who is what title, and end up just calling everyone nurse..lol. Administration is thinking about trying it out. The only people that wear "uniforms" is ER (blue scrubs & ER shirts) OR (blue scrubs) Housekeeping (burgundy scrubs) and laundry (blue bottoms and flowery type scrub shirt)

[rn/writer]

At my hospital, we used to have nurses in one color, PCA's in another, housekeeping in still another, etc.

Patient surveys revealed that they still didn't know who was whom.

The restriction was dropped and morale rose as we were finally allowed to wear the scrubs of our choosing.

In my opinion, nurses need to introduce themselves to their patients, write their names on the room blackboard or dry erase board, and conduct themselves professionally. These measures have more of an impact than the color being worn.

[JohnBearPA]

At our facility, the nurses, be they LPN or RN wear all white, either uniforms or scrubs, and the CNA's wear a multi-colored scrub top with pants matching any of the colors in the top. Laundry wears blue, housekeeping burgundy. This is an LTC, so the residents and their families know who's who easily after about ten minutes on the floor.
Also, and I didn't make this rule up, so don't flame me, the nurses wear caps purchased for them by the facility. RN's have the black band. It looks great, unless a CNA decides to wear white pants and a white lab-coat over her print scrub top. LOL

[Faeriewand]

Originally Posted by JohnBearPA

At our facility, the nurses, be they LPN or RN wear all white, either uniforms or scrubs, and the CNA's wear a multi-colored scrub top with pants matching any of the colors in the top. Laundry wears blue, housekeeping burgundy. This is an LTC, so the residents and their families know who's who easily after about ten minutes on the floor.
Also, and I didn't make this rule up, so don't flame me, the nurses wear caps purchased for them by the facility. RN's have the black band. It looks great, unless a CNA decides to wear white pants and a white lab-coat over her print scrub top. LOL

So how do the nurses themselves like wearing those nursing caps? I got one after my first semester at school and we were all proud to wear ours but wouldn't want to wear one at work. Do the elderly patients and visitors really like it too? ...because it would remind them of how it used to be.

[WSU_Ally_RN]

Where I work, everyone wears solid colors... Nurses in white, PCNA's and CT's in hunter green, Medic's in Navy, housekeeping in Burgandy... Other departments have specific colors for them that sometimes overlap what others wear, but for the most part, everyone is differentiated by their color of scrubs. I do agree, that even though we all wear different colors, and no matter how many times you tell your pts that nurses are in white and techs in green, they still think everyone around is the nurse!

[All_Smiles_RN]

I'm at a large teaching hospital and trauma center. Nurses wear blue, techs wear burgundy, RTs wear black, and housekeeping wears green. I don't think it helps pts so much, but it helps the doctors ;-)

[meandragonbrett]

I am not about to work somewhere that requires me to wear all white. If it's white and blue, or white and navy, white and red, etc. That is fine. But I'm not about to wear all white.

[RNsRWe]

My hospital went with giant buttons in red and white that say RN or LPN or PCT. Kinda hard to miss that, if they're looking anywhere on your front from the chest up, LOL!