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To wear scrubs when u enter the clinical phase in nursing school???
We wear a Navy blue school polo shirt, with a white University design above the pocket on the left and Nursing embroidered on the right side. We can wear navy blue dress pants or a navy blue straight skirt with blue stockings and black shoes. They just changed the navy blue polo's to Purple with the uni design embroidered in green. While purple is my favourite colour, I prefer wearing the navy blue to clinicals. Just matches in better with the same coloured skirt.
For lecture, we have to dress "business casual." (No jeans, t-shirts, tank tops, tennis shoes, etc.) So, I basically alternate between a few pairs of khakis, dress pants, and blouses; thank goodness that's only for two days a week!
For clinical and lab, we have to wear our "uniforms." They're royal blue scrubs with our school crest on the upper right chest, school name badge on the upper left chest, and facility ID on either side as long as it's at eye level. We cannot wear lab coats, but we can wear a long-sleeved white t-shirt underneath, as long as we can push up the sleeves and they remain clean (I usually opt out of this and just wear a light jacket that I can stash in my bag during clinical.). We have to wear our watches as well, and anyone with hair that touches the shoulders has to be pulled up and back. And, we have to wear all white, "leather-type" tennis shoes that have to be spotless when we're there.
It's pretty intense, right? At least the diploma program is required to do the same (I'm in the ADN program.) And, respiratory therapy, dental hygeine, and surgical technicians are required to do the same.
Yep, on our campus, the medical fields stick out like a sore thumb, so to speak!
Navy blue scrub pants, white scrub top with school logo in navy on left shoulder. ID badge, white shoes, white socks, hair up (no bangs). We also have restrictions on makeup (minimal), jewelry (one pair stud earrings, no necklaces, smooth band rings only (no raised stones)), nails (trimmed to fingertips, no polish, no acrylics), etc. etc. etc. - for all classes and clinicals. :)
sarahmizzou
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You guys are lucky! We have to wear red scrubs. Somewhere between crimson and blood red with black scrub pants and either all white or all black shoes. We have a white lab coat too. It looks like Betty Boup through up all over us lol. Polos would be a good send.