Directors--what do you wear?

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

What do all you DNSs wear to work? I dress in a professional manner--dresses or skirts or business like pants and blouse.

Now the administrator is telling me and all my managers we're supposed to be wearing lab coats....Really?!? What's the point? I have a name tag so people know who I am. Personally I think it's silly to wear a lab jacket. 2/3s of the people in my building are long term residents and don't really like the place to look like a hospital.

[Adele_Michal7, ASN, RN]

I'm not a DNS, so sorry if my response doesn't help.

Ours wears business casual. Lately she has been on a kick of wearing scrubs. Really foofy ones with ruffles too, lol.

I have one UM who had a penchant for wearing white lab vests.

[Bubbles82]

I wear business casual as well, but not a lab coat. I agree with you. I wear a name tag. My residents can distinguish me and the nurse managers from floor nurses because the floor nurses wear scrubs.

[NurseGuyBri]

I wear a suit without the jacket and then add my clinical consultation jacket when on the floor. Looks good with a tie. I think I may try a bowtie and suspenders just to see what happens. :-) I wear RN ciel blue scrubs on Wound Rounds.. :-D

[LTCRN4LIFE]

I wear business casual most days unless I know there is a special meeting, QA&A or a presentation that I should dress more "polished" for. I wear a lab coat sometimes....usually when its hot and I want to wear sleeveless and cover my arms

although I have always noticed a Nurse gets more respect when he/she wears a white uniform....it's like the old cliché....."The Doctor knows everything. He is God"

I like the look of white.....I was around when Nurses wore white hose and white shoes and were just beginning to ditch their white caps.

I also join my staff at Holiday time and wear holiday scrub tops when we have jean Friday each week. We also wear red with our jeans on Friday a lot to support womens cardiac health.

I hear ya about the home like environment.....trust me.........Culture Change and all...they know they are not home.

[dtchavey]

I wear business casual, but have my shirt sleeves rolled up . I have had some admins that also think that we should be able to identify the nurses by the way they dress, but it never lasts.

Hopefully it's just a phase.

[jschut, BSN, RN]

I will be starting as a DON next week, and I think I will wear business casual, with a lab coat. Mainly because I have 1/2 sleeves (tattoos) and if I am NOT wearing long sleeves otherwise, I will keep my arms covered out of respect unless I am told it is not necessary.

[sallyrnrrt, ADN, RN]

You "really" want to know what I wear, when I work as a DON?

vintage all white, complete with cap.....I get great behaviors, even from

dementia.... Family and relatives decrease anxiety, even kudos from state.