Do You Wear a Lab coat?

[L3Janit0r37]

I'm not a nurse, yet. I do work at a hospital as my name implies as a janitor (housekeeper, environmental services). I was wondering if any of you nurses wear a "lab coat," (that look like doctors or close) and if your a nursing student do you plan on wearing one one day. If you do have a lab coat what does it say like obgyn msn cen bsn list goes on. I swear the charge nurse in med surg has a sentence after her name.

[germsjackson]

I am a nursing student, and whenever I have seen another nurse in a lab coat, I assume they are doctors, as do the patients. I have even seen one nurse not correct a patient when he was called doc.

Sooooo.... all I know is that I will never wear one.

ciao ciao

[StudentNurse2011]

Lab coat - never. Warm-up jacket, maybe but doubtful. I'm too hot-natured anyway. I burn up just wearing regular scrubs and doing my job. If I wore anything extra, I'd positively melt. LOL

I wear cargo style scrub pants - the more pockets, the better, and scrub tops with at least 2 pockets at the hem. More pockets are good, but I can deal with just 2. I *like* a breast pocket for my pen, but it's not a must. I've been known to clip my pen to the neckline of my scrub top so I don't lose it in the multitude of "junk" I have in my pockets.

[dudette10, MSN, RN]

Nope. I wear my scrubs once and wash them, and I have enough to last me a whole pay period. Having enough lab coats and avoiding laundry every day would be too expensive.

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

I used to. Then my fellow NURSES made it clear that only DOCTORS should wear them.

They somehow felt the lousy lab coat somehow distinguished between the two professions.

So apparently ..we lowly nurses only get to wear cutsie scrub tops?

[netglow, ASN, RN]

Ha Ha. I wear a white thigh length fitted lab coat if I get cold. As you all already know, I don't give a rat's behind what other nurses do.