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Have any of you experienced redundant clinical attire instruction sessions?

My program has a document that specifically states the appropriate and acceptable attire for clinicals. There's even an official store that has all of the uniforms and a person that is fully familiar with the dress code. Unfortunately, we had to talk for an hour about the dress code on three separate occasions. These were instructor initiated and led discussions. A total of 3 HOURS!

Do we really need students commenting about thong vs. string panties?

Do we really need to know that lace bra's aren't acceptable?

Did I really need to learn what "wife beater" t-shirts are?

Wouldn't it have been easier to create a video and expect the students to watch it during non-instruction hours?

Isn't there a better and more time efficient way?

picurn10

409 Posts

you could have been given the lecture we got from my instructor just before ordering our scrubs: "you are not streetwalkers, so please don't pick sizes that will make you look like one!" :chuckle Apparently it was an issue she had to deal with in previous classes :eek:

Welcome to nursing school.......I found 90% of it to be the most ignorant, non-adult centered pointless blah, blah, blah and 10% actual learning environment. Apparently it was not just my school. I went back to nursing school after finishing another degree so I had already been to a 'normal' college and had that experience. I expected my nursing school, since it was primarily made up of adult students, to be more geared to those of us who already knew how to read what was in a textbook and be prepared for class, etc. However, when I asked my instructor once if they could, perhaps, expect us to have already read the assigned lesson and therefore be able to ADD their additional wisdom and knowledge on top of that, she then asked our entire class if that would be feasable and most everyone answered "no." I then begin frequently leaving class during breaktime as I was 27 years old and did not need someone to read from a textbook to me. I went to a very reputable BSN program. I actually NEVER had anyone come in a room with me to do a patient assessment until I took my first job as an extern. If you are an intelligent adult student who actually would like to learn about real nursing, you will probably have to wait until you are out of school RN school is something you just have to bite your tongue a lot to get through, do whatever petty crap they give you to do, and "play the games" until you get out. Real nursing is absolutely NOTHING like school, so just do what you need to do to stay on the instructor's good side and smile and nod your head a lot!!! Once you get your license, life will totally change. I literally still have bad dreams about nursing school and I have been out 7 years!!!! Good luck!

msfb

65 Posts

Specializes in Burn, Ortho, Trauma.

we go thru the clinical attire discussion EVERY SEMESTER. We wear white pants with white button down shirts so we hear about wearing neutral colored under-garments, no cracks front or back is a favorite saying. We are also lectured on no jewelry except a plain wedding band, no hair touching the collar, no bad breath (but you aren' t supposed to chew gum either), don't smoke in your uniform, no more than 2 colors in your hair, need I go on?

and i am also in an adult learning program. I just play the game as well and make sure I look ironed even if I am not.

Specializes in Ortho, Neuro, Detox, Tele.

You just have to grin and bear it....getting through those redundant NS lectures is just part of schooling....just think once you get done, you don't have to go again...

Bicster

409 Posts

Do we really need students commenting about thong vs. string panties?

I will gladly attend any "redundant clinical attire instruction sessions" regarding the above topic.

I'm a visual learner........

AmericanRN

396 Posts

Have any of you experienced redundant clinical attire instruction sessions?

My program has a document that specifically states the appropriate and acceptable attire for clinicals. There's even an official store that has all of the uniforms and a person that is fully familiar with the dress code. Unfortunately, we had to talk for an hour about the dress code on three separate occasions. These were instructor initiated and led discussions. A total of 3 HOURS!

Do we really need students commenting about thong vs. string panties?

Do we really need to know that lace bra's aren't acceptable?

Did I really need to learn what "wife beater" t-shirts are?

Wouldn't it have been easier to create a video and expect the students to watch it during non-instruction hours?

Isn't there a better and more time efficient way?

Yup I thought it was a waste of time too and couldn't understand why they went on forever about it. That is until this month when we found out that the class above us lost the entire school a rotation at a friendly hospital thanks to not dressing right (thongs showing through too tight scrubs, etc, a complaint from a patient's family about it.) I have also seen my members of my own class wear their hair down in clinicals (which is against the schools rules to begin with) It was allowed to slide until someone did it during a wound care assignment which is a no no. The facility forgave it but they did not have too and they were not happy.

If instructors enforced from the start the rest of us wouldn't have to sit through hours of blather and if students didn't ask the same things 20 million times maybe instructors could trust them to actually watch a video about it on their own. Which the bulk of my class doesn't even watch the crap they are supposed too. Immaturity is part of it and not realizing the politics that are at play in an area this saturated with nursing schools is part of it. But they are learning now that some of us have to drive 2 counties away thanks to the other class screwing up like they did.

ADPIE10

195 Posts

I will gladly attend any "redundant clinical attire instruction sessions" regarding the above topic.

I'm a visual learner........

The problem is that no one models the attire. People just comment about it. I agree that visual learning is important. I think that a video instruction with the specific offending garments prominently displayed by attractive people would be very educational and entertaining.

RNDreamer

1,237 Posts

Specializes in acute care.

It's annoying to those who wear appropriate clothing. Unfortunately, there are people who need to be told OVER and OVER and OVER again. We had to hear it during orientation because, even though dress attire was business casual, people still came in wearing shorts and other beach wear and club clothes.

psalm, RN

1,263 Posts

Specializes in Staff nurse.

Could be that there are so many sociopathic people in nursing school...the rules don't apply to them.

Specializes in ER; HBOT- lots others.

Okay, so i so went thru that in school too. every semester, every different instructor. not only does this happen for clin, it happens in every class on the "values" of the schools and code of conduct and all that. yeah, gets old!!! really super old!

Melinurse

2,040 Posts

Specializes in LTC, case mgmt, agency.
you could have been given the lecture we got from my instructor just before ordering our scrubs: "you are not streetwalkers, so please don't pick sizes that will make you look like one!" :chuckle Apparently it was an issue she had to deal with in previous classes :eek:

Reminds me of high-school. There are those who need those reminders though. And just think, they will be " professionals " soon. scared0011.gif We had a couple of those in our school too who wore black underwear with white scrubs. Needless to say, 30 minutes the next day was devoted to the dress code. I think it is just something that will happen where ever you go to school.:no: But, like someone else wrote, you will be done with nursing school and then you won't have to hear those lectures anymore.:yeah:

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