Clothing issues/malfunctions.

Some of these are so funny.

Does anyone remember wearing the uniforms that zip up the back?
Some of those dresses were sort of tight-fitting and you just couldn't slip them off over your head.
My "cute" little White Swan uniform with the faux apron across the front was one that zipped in the back. My zipper pull busted off. I had to have my room mate help me out of the darn thing.
Not funny, but just reminds me of how stupid those uniforms could be. You would throw your shoulders out of joint trying to zip yourself up or down. And lord help you if you were wearing those one-piece "jump-suits" and you had to pee.
They looked mighty sharp and professional, but I'll take today's "scrubs" any day!!

My very first clinical rotation, I had a wardrobe malfunction that really cracked my instructor up. My elderly male pt. was post op from total knee replacement. He exposed himself to me right off the bat, and I was absolutely in tears (this was back when I was young and innocent). A couple of hours later I squatted down to pick up something off the floor. As I rose, the bell of my stethoscope caught the hem of my dress, unbeknownst to me. I stood up, and my dress was suddenly above my waist. My nursing instructor, dry as could be, said, "I guess you got him back."

Why I always wear "racerback' bras.....

Was looking after a demented 90-something, and was helping the aide move her up in the bed. Well, my bra strap slipped down my arm, the LOL grabbed it, and started pulling for all she was worth, and this lady was STRONG. Now, I don't have all that much, but what I do have was being sucked rapidly into my armpit on the strap side, and compressed to non-existence on the other. I'm screaming, the pt's yelling, "I got it Henry, I got it!" and the aide is trying to pull open the pt's fingers enough to free me. The underwire went "SPRONG" and starts digging into my chest between the boobs. Now I'm really yelling, "Mrs. Smith, please let go!"

Another nurse came in just as the pt decided to grab the most prominent part of the aide's anatomy with her free hand, and now the CNA's yelling, I'm thinking I'm going to need reconstructive surgery for an acute case of "T***s on a stick" from being impaled by the underwire, and it finally took two additional people to free both the CNA and myself.

Man, sometimes nursing's a contact sport...

I have been sitting here laughing my butt off at all these posts, but I swear to God, this one takes the cake!

Ok so I will tell one on myself...not nearly as funny as others. One day I was wearing a pair of scrub pants that were just too big for me. I had been fussing with them all night, tying and retying them to keep them from falling down. I went off the floor to go to the cafeteria. No sooner did I get into the elevator, well, the scrub pants were at my ankles! I pulled them up real quick, but I am sure security got an eyeful. I was wearing underwear, however!

Another story, this time, a coworker. She pointed out her wardrobe malfunction, apparently she went to the bathroom and noticed that her bra was not providing quite enough coverage. So, she came back out and asked everyone "why didn't anyone tell me that my nipples have been showing!" Nobody had noticed, or if they did, they didn't want to say anything. So she went around the whole night with her arms over her chest. One of my more mischeivous coworkers at the time decided to punk her though. The next morning, the word "nip" was written by the nurse's name on the assignment board and someone from dayshift, who wasn't in on the joke, was going around asking "who's nip?"

Eep! I never wear underwear to work anymore so let's hope my pants never fall down!

The reason i don't wear underwear is because something about wearing them with scrubs makes them ride up... and up... and up, until they're sticking out a good 6" over my scrub pants, which are falling down. So all night I'm constantly hiking up my pants and picking an ever-present tremendous wedgie out of my butt. One day I couldn't take it anymore so I removed my underwear in the bathroom (luckily I had my purse), and I felt so much better! My pants seem to stay where they belong instead of falling down, and I haven't had a wedgie since.

I blame my flat butt for this problem.