Has Anyone Else Heard This Rumor?

[Jen2]

I heard what I think is a rumor today. A classmate of mine said that her husband told her that a federal law has been passed today 1-11-05 that all student nurses nation wide must wear all white. Has anyone else heard this? I tried to do a search to find any info about this to see if it was true and couldn't find anything.

[CHATSDALE]

Congress has done some dumb things.....but nothing this dumb

[Fun2, BSN, RN]

I heard on one of the main news channels there is a "universal uniform" (for nurses) sweeping hospitals around the country. It was only a small blog, and I can't find reference to it anywhere. It was just saying that many hospitals around the country are converting the nurses over to a universal uniform so that you can walk into any hospital and know who the RN's are. It didn't say all white, nor did it say it is, was, or even going to be a Federal law.

I'm with Nurse2be2007. NO DRESSES!! ...and I feel the same with white pants. Give me a comfortable white T-Shirt, with a hospital logo, and RN on it, but let me have dark pants. :) PLEASEEEEEE!

[jenrninmi, MSN, RN]

Don't most nursing schools have students wearing white anyway?

Mine doesn't. It's blue Dockers with a white or blue polo shirt and a white lab coat.

[LadyK82]

Our school uniforms for clinical are royal blue. None of the hospitals that I've been to in the Houston area wear white. The new first semester nursing students that just entered our program and start clincals in March aren't wearing white either.

We used to have white uniforms but they changed them to the royal blue color b/c many of the women would wear leopard print panties and such and you could see right through them! :chuckle

[Jen2]

O.K. I just found out the "jist" of the rumor. It was on the radio that two local hospitals in my area just adopted the all white policy and must convert to it with in one year for the RN's. So, no it's not a federal law or just for nursing students.

[Altra, BSN, RN]

Thanks for the update.