What color scrubs do you wear?

[MJB2010]

Do all the RNS in your hospital wear the same color?

Which color?

Is it by role, or unit? (like all RNS wear navy, techs wear ciel)

[~PedsRN~, BSN, RN]

Children's Hospital here = Fun Scrubs.

[Hay Nars, RN]

MJB2010 said:

Do all the RNS in your hospital wear the same color?

Which color?

Is it by role, or unit? (like all RNS wear navy, techs wear ciel)

Our unit (Med-Surg) wears ryal blue and or white scrubs. The mother/baby floor wears lilac and some light blue color. Most units (except mother/baby) wear royal blue and or white.

[Purple_Scrubs, BSN, RN]

I propose that each role wear a color that coordinates with the body fluid they are most likely to contact. Ex. Lab=red, RT=tan (sputum), RN=brown, CNA=yellow, (although many of these are interchangable, you get the picture)

I think the other color-coordination schemes make about as much sense as this one does, so why not?

[Cristae]

Where I work RN's and Aides wear hunter green, pharmacy and lab wear tan or brown, housekeeping wears dark blues/navy.

[loriangel14, RN]

We wear what ever we want.

[Robublind]

newtress said:

What's with the love on the blue?

We wear what we want at our hospital but I like the dark colors because they hide stains better. Dark navy blue is the best.

[Robublind]

Meriwhen said:

Awesome pics ?

I have always wanted a cloak.

I want a cloak too. I always want to dress up as a vampire (the cloak not the fangs) to come into a patient room (give them second thoughts on hitting that call light one too many times) and leave with a quick dramatic turn.

[buytheshoes11, MSN, RN]

A fun part about my job is that we can wear any color/print. I prefer darker shades because they tend to hide more (stains from the shift, etc.) and I don't have to worry about anything being see through. I am especially glad that we aren't required to wear white scrubs...my mom had whites for nursing school and they were always dirty!

[LDRNMOMMY, BSN, RN]

I work in an outpatient clinic staffed with RNs. The only dress code we have is that we wear solid colors M-Th. On Fridays we can wear prints or tee shirts. It was an old unofficial policy of our former director. It just kind of stuck after she resigned.

[12leakec]

Well my Clinical class has 2 different colors! I have 2 Navy pairs and 1 purple!

[OldnurseRN]

My last travel assignment was strictly navy for nurses. Boring! All my others have been color of choice. I personally wear the same colors ... top and bottom and dress it up with a print jacket. Funny how some relate white to nurses. When I worked at the state mental hospital we wore street clothes because studies showed patients felt people in white were unapproachable. I have scrubs of basically every color and many interchangeable jackets.

[nguyency77, CNA]

I'm a CNA and at my facility, we have to wear beige scrubs with our company name monogrammed on them.

I really do not understand why they make us wear such a light color that dirties so easily; as CNA we are exposed to blood, poop, food, and other things that could easily stain.

It's not aesthetically appealing, either.