Back to Traditional Nursing Uniforms?

[PacoUSA]

from nursing link:

"nurses in one unit at the jfk medical center in atlantis, fl, have decided to wear the old-fashioned style nursing uniform for an eight-week trial to see how it would affect patient opinion of the care they received and how this would translate into patient satisfaction scores."

read the full article: http://nursinglink.monster.com/careers/articles/9541-back-to-traditional-nursing-uniforms?utm_source=nlet&utm_content=nl_c1_20100819_traditionalscrubs

what do you think? no mention however as to what male nurses would wear ...

[AgentBeast, BSN, RN]

Realistically the same sort of system the Navy uses on aircraft carriers would work in hospitals. You have X job you wear X colored uniform.

[Flipper911]

Patients need to be able to distinguish nurses from Lab techs, radiology staff, etc. I would go for all one color for nursing staff for easy identification by patients and families. Just as long as it isn't white and I have to wear my cap :PPPPPPPPPPP

It would behoove me to have to get rid of all my print scrubs though

Some hospitals that have done this have noticed an increase in their customer satisfaction scores. We all know that the "monkey suit" doesn't make the nurse but I feel that not being able to distinguish nurses from the cleaning staff is not a good thing!

Most patients cannot tell a nurse from a janitor even with designated scrubs. Truth is, as a male, when I enter the room they assume I am the Dr no matter what color scrub I wear.

I do think cartoon scrubs or anything cutsie should be limited to peds. It is disgusting to see an adult dressed in scoobie scrubs!

[MAISY, RN-ER, BSN, RN]

I would never wear white.

We just went to all navy.....patient's have been asking where all our colorful, cheerful colors went....have been told it's depressing, unimaginative, and now patients don't know who their nurse is and are unable to identify with us.....just the opposite.

Personally, I think it's a ploy to depersonalize the nurse and make us indistinguishable to the patients. I don't like it. Take all ancillary staff out of scrubs, leave nursing professionals to their individuality and put half-baked ideas to bed and focus on important things like patient safety!

As for Florida, I get the idea that the elderly may identify with the white....but give me a break....white hasn't been the colour du jour for a while......another consultant's idea of change. UGH!

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[sharpeimom]

i worked almost exclusively psych where we wore navy docker-style or cargo pants wth tan polo shirts with the hospital's logo embroidered on it or reverse colors, but before that, when i worked ortho, we wore white pantsuit or dress uniforms with the dreaded cap. i kept knocking the #$%^ cap into a bedpan, and getting weird stains that absolutely refused to come out no matter what i pretreated with on the uniforms. despite the fact that i weighed between 110# and 115# then, i always felt as though

home movies could have been shown on my rear end while i was in uniform.

return to them? he** no!!

[hecallsmeDuchess]

i always felt as though

home movies could have been shown on my rear end while i was in uniform.

the above comment is hilarious!!!!!! rofl!!

[RPN_2012]

HEEEEEELL NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would not wear a white dress and that cap, it may have looked cute on some nurses, but I would look and feel absolutely ridiculous in that uniform! The one and only time I would ever consider wearing that uniform is during Nurse's Week, and even then it's very unlikely... eeeewww

[ImThatGuy, BSN, RN]

What are some areas where nurses normally wear regular clothes?

[MAISY, RN-ER, BSN, RN]

Psych, legal nurse consultants, management ugh, education, intake coordinators, NPs with lab coat, can't think of any others HELP?

[Flipper911]

Psych, legal nurse consultants, management ugh, education, intake coordinators, NPs with lab coat, can't think of any others HELP?

i had to wear regular clothes as a director and could not stand it! I had to pay to have the clothes cleaned cause I was not about to iron and I spill stuff all the time or i was still crawling under desks or moving stuff around so nothing ever stayed clean. My co-workers always commented how I looked neater in scrubs.

[realnursealso/LPN, LPN]

I'm a peds homecare nurse, I have on capri's and a v-necked shirt right now, with my clogs.(AM at work, I bring my laptop every day) We never wear uniforms to work with kids, makes them think they are back in the hospital where people in uniforms poked and prodded them. I think my patients mom would laugh at me if I showed up like that...lol

[sharpeimom]

some psych units, some facilities for dd individuals, some hh jobs, certain pd cases (if the family requests street clothes.) when i worked in the state mental hospital, as i mentioned above, we

essentially wore street clothing, except we had the name of the hospital logo on our polo shirts. we wore socks and sneakers or whatever type of shoes (that were closed) we wanted. as supervisors and managers, we wore lab coats over the other pants and polo shirts. the lab coats had our name, title, and the hospital name embroidered on them.

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

I'll wear a hat. I'll wear a dress if it has enough pockets, and it's not mandatory. Thirteen years of Catholic school left me with a lot of bad memories of freezing in the wintertime because we had to wear dresses. I will not wear all white; it's impossible to keep clean, and it shows everything.

I like the idea of color coding staff (as long as we don't have to wear white), but sometimes residents "can't tell who does what" for other reasons. Many residents assume any male in scrubs is a doctor. As a black female, lots of residents have assumed I'm a aide or a housekeeper, despite the prominent "RN" on my nametag.