color of clinical scrubs?

[OnlinePersona, LPN]

Hi,

I am wondering if anyone else has to wear white scrubs? I get the whole purity, peace symbolization but I find it a bit nerve racking trying to keep this clean in a rotation. I mean come on, we around all types of bodily fluids..... other schools wear dark colors in my area and I'm jealous.....

End rant

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

The LVN program that I attended required us students to wear royal blue scrub tops and white bottoms. The white pants were difficult to keep clean. I hated having to wear them during that time of the month.

The LPN-to-ASN bridge program required us students to wear maroon scrub tops and bottoms to our clinical rotations. This was much better for me.

[app18]

Luckily my school has us wear pewter colored scrubs (gray) but we do have to wear white shoes and a white lab coat so I feel your pain on some level.

[TLynn89]

We wear navy scrubs with white shoes, white lab coat (which I think I wore two or three times?), and a BIG patch on the shoulder, along with embroidering below our names (also embroidered) identifying us as students. I have seen multiple other schools showing up to the same clinical sites as us that have to wear the white scrubs, I think that's pretty standard.

[ThatOneDude822]

We wear light blue, which still shows stains pretty badly. The ADN program here (different school) wears red tops and black bottoms, I think. None of our programs wear all white.

[vanilla bean]

We wore white scrub tops with dark colored pants in my program. Many of my classmates carried around those Clorox bleach pens to freshen up their tops after the inevitable spills/slatters/splashes that happen.

[KThurmond]

Lpn program required white scrubs with our school logo for clinical and royal blue with logo for community service events

[OyWithThePoodles, RN]

Be thankful that its just white scrubs, back when I was in school we had to wear all white scrubs with an obnoxiously green SMOCK, yes smock, over the top. I saw current nursing students from there rotating through my hospital a little while back and they had nice green form fitting scrubs, they were lucky.

[NurseEmmy]

I had to wear all white scrubs - tops, bottoms, shoes, and lab coat. Even if you kept the stains away, they faded to that ugly off white color from the constant washing. I HATED it.

[cupcakeluver]

Yup....my program is white scrubs. To make it even worse, they changed the color for 1st year students. So 1st and 2nd semester get to wear a nice gray while 3rd and 4th still wear white. Only one more semester and I can burn those suckers!!

[Lev, MSN, RN, NP]

My school had a white top with royal blue bottoms. We had to wear white shoes. I see many nursing students where I work and a couple schools have all white scrubs or white bottoms. I feel for them. Make sure you have good underwear.

[nursehaley91, BSN, RN]

Ours were royal blue entirely which were hideous but SO comfortable that we really didn't care haha.