Lab Coat NP Embroidery

linearthinker, DNP, RN · Apr 15, 2011

I don't have any input b/c I have no intention of ever wearing a lab coat again! I'll tell you the truth, I love fashion and I am a very well dressed woman and I'm not spoiling my look with a ridiculous white coat, lol. I always laugh when I read medical student at SDN c/o about nurses thinking we have the right to wear white coats. They can have it, if I weren't forced I wouldn't be caught dead in one.

However, to your question, if you MUST wear one I suggest getting something decent, and 100% cotton. I got my student lab coat (this one: http://www.medelita.com/lab-coat-34-sophia.html) at medelita. It was almost as hideous as all the others, but at least it wasn't polyester! I got a lot of compliments on it. They do do embroidery as well. I'd just put my name on it, and FNP, etc. Short and sweet.

congratulations on finishing school!

FNPdude74 · Apr 15, 2011

Hey thanks for your response. I just hope that coat fits my ipad 2. Sometimes I want to be hands free without putting it down and risk theft. Plus, I just got in the US Air Force a few months ago as an FNP (paper work is complete and need to finish FNP program now :) ) and I'm not 100% sure if we'll be wearing white coats or not. I did see a few army physicians wearing their lab coats over the BDU. Must be hot though huh?

I guess I'll stick with

NurseW74, FNP

Family Nurse Practitioner

Or is that too much? How about replacing the "FNP" with "MSN" after my name?

Btw...I looked at that site. I need something from the Mens department please.

Trauma Columnist · Apr 15, 2011

I work in several dialysis units where bleach and blood are always therereadyto land on me! I wear the blue pinstriped knee length lab coat with my practice logo on one side and my name and APN on the other side. IL says you must use APN so I don't have anything else.

BTW after five years all my pockets are now held together with safety pins. Lol

CRF250Xpert · Apr 15, 2011

I did see a few army physicians wearing their lab coats over the BDU. Must be hot though huh?

In the USAF, you can take off your ABU top if you wear a lab coat. Oh, and as cool as it seems, why deal with owning one? You can sign out a couple and keep on in the hospital laundry so they stay clean. If it gets lost - no biggie since you'd have $0 invested. I had one stolen from the wide open in plain sight in the ER, it had my name, etc on it and someone still walked off with it. I haven't bought one since. I only hope they stole it then tied it around their neck and jumped off of a chair.

carachel2 · Apr 15, 2011

I'm seriously having a hard time picturing a lab coat that will fit an iPad AND still look professional. The best I can come up with visually is a big ole baggy man lab coat that is going to look even more hideous dragged down by an iPad. Please tell me that ain't so! Link ?

I agree with you on the initials:

Mary Smith, FNP

Family Nurse Practitioner

My patients do not care about all the rest and they have no idea what it means !

rnsrgr8t · Apr 15, 2011

My hospital issues us 2 new labcoats a year..

On the right side it has my hospital logo

On the left side it has in blue script:

RNSrgr8t, RN,CPNP

Pediatic Urology

linearthinker, DNP, RN · Apr 15, 2011

Hey thanks for your response. I just hope that coat fits my ipad 2. Sometimes I want to be hands free without putting it down and risk theft. Plus, I just got in the US Air Force a few months ago as an FNP (paper work is complete and need to finish FNP program now :) ) and I'm not 100% sure if we'll be wearing white coats or not. I did see a few army physicians wearing their lab coats over the BDU. Must be hot though huh?
I guess I'll stick with
NurseW74, FNP
Family Nurse Practitioner
Or is that too much? How about replacing the "FNP" with "MSN" after my name?
Btw...I looked at that site. I need something from the Mens department please.

Here you go. http://www.medelita.com/mens-labcoat-laennec.html They also have those ridiculous full length coats. I don't know anything about the military, sorry. Good luck though!

Advanced Practice Columnist / Guide · Apr 16, 2011

If you already have the letters FNP after your name, why add the full words "Family Nurse Practitioner" below it?

To me it reads like:

John Doe, MD

Doctor of Medicine

FNPdude74 · Apr 16, 2011

If you already have the letters FNP after your name, why add the full words "Family Nurse Practitioner" below it?
To me it reads like:
John Doe, MD
Doctor of Medicine

Good thinking. How about this? I'm just worried like if I get placed in a different unit such as urgent care or emergency room and it saying "Family Practice" may be weird. So maybe the second one below may fit better? O should I not worry since I can take it to the tailor and get it changed for less than $5? I heard military tailors are very cheap compared to the civilian world.

NurseW74, FNP

Family Practice

Or

NurseW74

Family Nurse Practitioner

Advanced Practice Columnist / Guide · Apr 16, 2011

Good thinking. How about this? I'm just worried like if I get placed in a different unit such as urgent care or emergency room and it saying "Family Practice" may be weird. So maybe the second one below may fit better? O should I not worry since I can take it to the tailor and get it changed for less than $5? I heard military tailors are very cheap compared to the civilian world.
NurseW74, FNP
Family Practice
Or
NurseW74
Family Nurse Practitioner

Well, I've always let my place of employment dictate the format of my lab coat and in 2 out of 3 places I've worked for, the lab coats were ordered by my employer for me. I always have my name embroidered as:

First Last, NP

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

and later:

First Last, NP

Critical Care

Some lab coat retailers can remove a previously embroidered name or title on a coat.

zenman · Apr 17, 2011

I'm a PMHNP and wear street clothes (another reason to be a PMHNP :up: ). No way in hell I'm putting anything on my expensive Hawaiian shirts, ha, ha!