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Do you wear certain scrubs on certain days?

Specializes in Medical Oncology, ER.

i've gotten to the point where I don't know how to pick what to wear when it's not scrubs.

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

I have difficulty telling whether things go together.

Yeah. I don't try to "Mix N Match" my scrubs either, Dogen.

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Of course you're Cool, Farawyn. Duh! Like, everybody knows that...

Hmmm... Your pizza scrubs are distracting me from your true intent here.

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Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.

What I wear depends entirely on how daring I am. I have a bit of a drinking problem. Every thine I drink coffee I spill some down my front. So, I avoid white unless I am VERY DARING or won't be drinking coffee that day. Which is almost never. So typically, I wear black. On my VERY DARING days, i will wear a white scrub top and black pants. I never wear white pants or white shoes. It's after labor day, after all!

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What I wear depends entirely on how daring I am. I have a bit of a drinking problem. Every thine I drink coffee I spill some down my front. So, I avoid white unless I am VERY DARING or won't be drinking coffee that day. Which is almost never. So typically, I wear black. On my VERY DARING days, i will wear a white scrub top and black pants. I never wear white pants or white shoes. It's after labor day, after all!

In the hospital we wore navy pants and white tops. it looked very crisp. Except on me, as I am The Dribble Queen.

Dang!

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I buy my scrubs so all of the tops will match all of the pants. That way I can just grab and go. I have two separate color schemes and I keep them on opposite sides of my closet, browns to the left, blacks and grays to the right. Works well.

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I buy my scrubs so all of the tops will match all of the pants. That way I can just grab and go. I have two separate color schemes and I keep them on opposite sides of my closet, browns to the left, blacks and grays to the right. Works well.

No pink?

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I once worked at a hospital that didn't tell us what color to wear-any color or pattern was fine...for them...it was spring and I bought a pastel yellow pair of scrubs thinking it would be cheery, until I found out how psych patients would perceive it when I was floated there for the day. I was only 20, fresh out of school, and not used to dealing with this population. I got "what's up buttercup?", "Ooooh! Pretty birdie! Mommy, can I keep it?", and finally, "You're wearing yellow? Why would you wear yellow? Don't you know us crazy people are drawn to yellow?"...yeah, I'm beginning to realize that:unsure:...note to self, don't wear yellow. However the kitchen staff called me "buttercup" for years after they heard about it.

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I have a navy blue top with unicorns and a slogan "RUN FREE" across the front I am dying to wear but worry I haven't worked there long enough to get away with it. I do wear one with all kinds of dogs and it says "DOGS PARADE." Most nurses where I work wear long sleeves and vests instead of scrub tops. I also have a purple one with a kitten and a lightening bolt going through its face. Management is very serious where I work so sometimes I wear them under a fleece zipped up like Clark Kent. Only I know.

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I'm spoiled, I get to wear OR scrubs. I have hats, keep them at work (except when I wash them), and jackets too. I put on whatever is clean to wear into work (jeans, t-shirt, etc). Most of the year I wear flip flips and put socks on at work :). I can also easily change clothes at work when needed (happens more often than you'd think). :) Work does the laundry for most of what I wear, it's AWESOME! Sometimes I wear old scrub pants in to work...just depends on the day. I have a pair of scrub pants in the color RNs wear at work so if I attend education sessions off campus I don't *have* to dress up (work t-shirts are within dress code too so I'm set and my other option would be business casual which is fine unless I don't want to dress up).

I was at a work party a while back... You know you always wear the same thing and only ever see someone's eyes and top of their face when your coworkers recognize you based on your voice or laugh and not appearance. Gasp! We have clothes ("real" clothes), and hair. And sometimes wear make up.

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Is butter a carb?

0.1 gram in an entire stick of butter! :up: Used regularly on a low-carb diet! :yes:

What I wear depends entirely on how daring I am. I have a bit of a drinking problem. Every thine I drink coffee I spill some down my front. So, I avoid white unless I am VERY DARING or won't be drinking coffee that day. Which is almost never. So typically, I wear black. On my VERY DARING days, i will wear a white scrub top and black pants. I never wear white pants or white shoes. It's after labor day, after all!

I love crisp white scrub tops . . . but you can see the "menopause middle" so they stay hung up in my closet. I hate scrub pants so I wear dark black jeans, a black "boyfriend" t-shirt, and a dark blue (large) lab coat. And whatever sneakers I can find on sale. Just bought some black and purple Adidas on sale at Costco with black and white checkered laces.

We don't have a dress code per se . . . no coordinated colors or styles. As a hospice nurse (or home health) we are supposed to dress "professionally" which means no nurses uniform. But to heck with that - the stuff I do in the home isn't something that works well with that idea. Plus, I'm a jeans, t-shirt, and flip flop kinda girl.

:nurse:

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Specializes in School Nursing, Hospice,Med-Surg.

Please. This school nurse is wearing her strawberry pink Urbanes like she does EVERY Wednesday.

I wore all black YESTERDAY because it was the first day back after a nice, long break. I was grieving.

Oh, and always funky colored Converse 'cause I'm cool like that.

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