Different colored scrubs for OB/LDR/Nursery for infant security

[detra, BSN, RN]

Just out of curiousity; does your unit use different colored scrubs to identify OB/Nursery nurses versus the overall staff colors throughout the hospital. Our whole hospital uses a single color to identify RN in general. Our unit uses a small stork on the badge to identify OB and we teach our moms to look for that symbol when infant is picked up before releasing infant. Survey this week showed that moms report they are not looking for symbol and that all nurses wear same color uniform and anyone in hospital could pick up baby and could only be identified by "she was wearing green pants and white top"...... trying to get an idea to present for uniform change......

[BronxRN28]

At my hospital the nurses in OB/LDR/Nursery are the only ones allowed to wear ceil blue. It's something we are told about in orientation. Other than that the nurses in other departments can where any color scrubs they want.

[melmarie23, MSN, RN]

No. We can wear our own scrubs, but its recommended that we wear hospital issued. And if we go into the OR, we HAVE to change into hospital scrubs. However, all hospital issued scrubs are the same for all floors/units. What designates L&D/post partum from the rest of the hospital is that our name badges look different.

[punkydoodlesRN, BSN, RN]

All Nurses wear a certain color where I work, and the women's services nurse wear that same color bottom, but have a different top. They are the only ones with that top (our hospital has a color-coded scrubs system) I feels like an ugly flag, and we recently voted to change the colors - they'll be an even worse color combo in January. We also have bears on our badges, but I don't know that I've ever had a mom double check for my bear.

[PinkLadyER]

Our nurses all wear the same color scrubs in each dept of the hospital. However all of the nurses and techs in the Mother/Baby unit have pink scrub jackets with the hospital logo on them, their name, and embroidered baby footprints on them. Any staff that works on the unit also has a pink ID badge that only the Mother/Baby&NICU departments wear.

[sonja77]

In my hospital most nurses (RNs and LVNs) wear navy or white; the RNs in FCS (Family Care Services = L&D, Women's Care and Peds) wear lavender. OR wears hospital-issued scrubs (salmon or green).

[hecallsmeDuchess]

At my hospital, they wear the same scrubs as other RNs but their badges are blue. At another hospital I worked at, the nurses wore same scrubs but their badges has footprints on them. Similarity in both hospitals is that only those nurses that worked on L/D, PP or Nursery could go into such units with their badges as these were all lock-down units.

[CrazziiRN913, ADN, BSN]

In the hospital wear I did my maternity clinical the nurses all where hospital issues pink/salmon scrubs in L&D/postpartum and the nursery nurse where what they please but they have something special on their badges and the whole floor is completely locked down!!

[Mandychelle79, ASN, RN]

Ours wears purple scrubs, with a purple name tag, with a bear on it. Hospital issues the scrubs.

[NicuGal, MSN, RN]

Our legal came up with this: Anyone that watches a floor can go out and buy whatever color scrubs the nurses/workers are wearing. Our badges are bright pink and they are the only ones that will swipe into those areas, all other badges are white and will not allow them to enter those areas.

[nurse955]

It varies by hospital. For example, OB nurses in my current place of employment must wear a combination of black and pink. Another hospital where I worked, OB nurses worn same color scrub as other nurses but the ID badge had a red background with a giraffe. patients are instructed upon admission that only nurses with the red ID badge are allowed to take their babies.