Nurses General Nursing
Published Jun 11, 2002
119 members have participated
NancyRN
222 Posts
I wear white because I like to bleach it to kill hospital bugs. I can't bleach the colored scrubs. I don't understand why some units are provided with scrubs and laundry service but some aren't. Infection control should be an issue on every unit.
Ben Thair RN
12 Posts
Hospital provided scrubs cost hospitals money...that is why they will never be universally provided. Only the "controlled" environments will have that benefit (if you see it as a benefit)...like OR, burns, L&D, etc.
Identification is a big, big problem. PA's that want to be mistaken for MD's, medical assistants and nurses aides that want to be mistaken for nurses. Without hospital and work place requirements for all staff to wear specific name and identification badges the only other option is to designate duty and position by type or color of dress. hhhmmm... who wears the lab coat? what color is it? how long is it? was that young man who just drew my blood a doctor?...he was wearing a white coat?
live4today, RN
5,099 Posts
I don't mind wearing whites, and I don't mind wearing scrubs, prints, etc. Whatever the policy dictates, that's what I wear. :)
lynniepooh
19 Posts
At my facility, all nurses are forced to wear all white uniforms. They only did away with caps two years ago! I think the white uniforms are not nearly as cheerful or interesting to my (Alzheimers) patients. Managements' theory is that you are more easily recognized as a nurse by the pt. I find that the pt's call everyone in a uniform "nurse" anyway!
elusive
55 Posts
Being a nursing student I have to say I love my scrubs, I think theyre great. However I hate that (at my school at least) we have to wear teal-green scrubs, all the time, never changing, for four years. Along with that we have to wear these school patches on the LEFT (not the right - heaven forbid) shoulder. Ablsolutely no variations. They dont even like when we come in with the warm up sweaters. Okok so i understand why they want us all to look alike, and wear the samething, but half the time we match the other nurses, the csr's, the cleaning staff, the OT's, the PT's, and everyone else..so really you cant tell anyone apart any more. I wouldnt want a whole floor of nurses wearing all the same thing...hell it would be like high school all over again..but definately there needs to be a better way to tell all the different hospital staff apart, for everyones sake. And as for white...you wont see me voting yes for hats (yuck) or panyhose (double yuck). If I wont wear them at home why would I want to wear them to work.. and ugh all the stains...
adrienurse, LPN
1,275 Posts
No whites! If I want to show people my undies, I'll do it on my own time! I like colorful uniforms and so do my patients. I have never heard any complaints. I think it's the non-nursing staff that should wear something different. Our education and training gives us the privilage to look like a nurse.
As for caps, just bloody ridiculas. What are men supposed to wear. I'm a degree nurse -- do I have to wear one anyway?
P.S.
I used to work in a nursing home where I was permitted to wear street clothes. I always felt sloppy and underdressed. My clothes got stained and beat up very fast from having to wash them repeatedly. I switched to scrubs, because they are just so much more comfortable and durable. They're meant to be washed over and over.
Nurse Ratched, RN
2,149 Posts
We can wear non-jean street clothes, but I like my whites. Maybe I'm just weird . I wade around in a lot of blood and body fluids, but it all seems to come out in the wash.
Actually think the caps are kinda cute, but have to agree totally impractical.
Love-A-Nurse
3,932 Posts
i wear a white uniform to work regardless of having the option to or the option to wear scrubs.
BBnurse34
209 Posts
No on the whites.... makes my hiney look too big
inSANE
35 Posts
I worked with a nurse that wore white scrubs one day, lo' and behold her cute little thong was hit with those drunk and disorderly. My mother always said "If you are going to wear white pants, put on the white granny panties". She is never wrong. I have been splashed so many times with activated charcoal that my lovely white uniforms would make me look like a dalmation! Give me scrubs anyday!
mystedream
3 Posts
I have worked in jobs where you had to where all white, where you could where whatever color(design) uniform you wanted and jobs where the dresscode was inbetween. The white gets dirty too easy and some of the newer uniforms, in my opinion, are not all that professional. Most of the patients and residents I have taken care say that they enjoy they cheerful designs and colours, nut at the same time like a slight difference in the uniforms between the nurses and the nursing assistants. Straight white is just too boring, and not that uplifting for the patients.
In my own personal opinion the flannel scrubs look like PJ's and BLACK, while most my street clothes are black it is not an appropriate colour to wear in this profession.