Can you wear any kind of scrubs you want? (nurses)

elkpark · Mar 9, 2011

It depends on your employer's dress code. Some are v. strict, some are more relaxed. A lot of hospitals/facilities are "color-coded" nowadays (different types of staff wear specific, required colors of scrubs so clients and families can tell who's who at a glance).

CrazierThanYou · Mar 11, 2011

In my area, only one hospital has a dress code. The chose the ugliest colors they could find for CNA's, nurses, and secretaries to wear.

Murse901, MSN, RN · Mar 14, 2011

Depends on the facility. There are many hospitals in this area that are color-coded. Most nursing homes and non-hospital facilities are either any solid color or free-for-all.

What's kind of crappy at my facility is that nursing staff all has to wear ciel blue, but nursing staff includes all nurses, nurse techs, CNA's, and unit secretaries. So, kind of pointless to make that designation when there is no guarantee that a person in that color has any license or credential.

yousoldtheworld · Mar 24, 2011

My current facility lets nurses and aides wear whatever scrubs they want, and they encourage cheerful prints and colors.

The lone rule is that aides cannot wear white pants. Nurses can wear white pants, but are not required to anymore (they used to be required to wear them.)

The hospitals in the area require specific solid colors for each role.

missmun52 · Apr 29, 2011

nurses wear colors specific to their unit/floor which makes no sense to me but I guess it lets everyone in the hospital know what unit you work on. The downside is if you transfer to a different floor you have to buy all new scrubs.

Raven Sierra, BSN, RN · May 8, 2011

The hospitals I've worked at have been color-coded by job - navy blue or white for nurses, hunter green or royal blue for CNAs/PCTs, ciel blue for unit secretaries, etc. You could only wear a white lab coat if you were an LPN, RN, NP, PA or MD. And NPs, PAs, and MDs could wear street clothes with a white lab coat, if they chose.