Hey, guys, with all the hype about going back to all-white, and color-coded units, I was wondering....where I work, we can wear whatever, I have more latitude than hospital staff as an office NP. We routinely wear our team colors (mostly down here it's football, be it college or professional) any old day of the week. Of course, this can get rather lively if your patient or team member is for another team, ESPECIALLY if their team is your team's rival or vice versa. It is, however, a very good conversation starter. Had one today that was wearing a rival T-shirt, and was commenting on my team watch. We were rehashing Saturday's game, and I left to get him a drink, promising "I won't even put strychnine in it!". Anywhere else, I'd probably have been arrested for that.
Just curious as to your workplace's policy on this, and how it affects (or hinders) work and patient care. It may be a Southern thing, cause down here football's more of a religion than a sport, but I wanted to put out a feeler and see how it is othe rplaces.
Just curious as to your workplace's policy on this, and how it affects (or hinders) work and patient care. It may be a Southern thing, cause down here football's more of a religion than a sport, but I wanted to put out a feeler and see how it is othe rplaces.
I've not yet been to a medical building where sports-themed (or obviously sport-colored) clothes are seen, so I don't think it's too acceptable in my area. When I go to the hospital to work, I'm not required to wear scrubs but if it's not scrubs, it must be "business casual". Scrubs color varies with department.
While it might be fun to connect to other football fans, it might also look odd to others. Even in areas with big-name sports teams, don't assume everyone walking in the door cares about such-and-such sports team. Some teams have such, um, unusual color combinations. In my region, some of the team color combos are downright fugly. The clients who don't care about that sport may look at you and wonder why your shirt may not seem to match your pants.
Specializes in ED, Med-Surg, Psych, Oncology, Hospice.
We are required to wear white but lots of the nurses wear either a colored (or print) top or jacket. I wear red on Friday, regardless, in support of out troops.
We are able to wear whatever we like, as long as no cracks above or below the waist are showing I'm a Buckeye, so you can bet your bottom dollar I wear scarlet and gray!
We used to be able to wear any color scrubs, but we now must wear unit specific colors only. We also used to be able to wear sports team scrubs (I had Cubs scrub set), but this was banned as looking "unprofessional." Unprofessional or not, it was an excellent conversation starter with patients, many of whom were scared to be there. It let us connect on a human level,rather than on staff/patient level.
Specializes in ED, Med-Surg, Psych, Oncology, Hospice.
When I worked in the State mental hospital we wore street clothes because a study showed that patient finds staff in white to be more "unapproachable". Wonder if that includes medical patients or just psychiatric patients?
Specializes in Hospice, corrections, psychiatry, rehab, LTC.
When I worked in the State mental hospital we wore street clothes because a study showed that patient finds staff in white to be more "unapproachable". Wonder if that includes medical patients or just psychiatric patients?
I wear street clothes now because I'm a DON. The other staff on my unit wear scrubs. When I worked in mental health it ran the gamut. The first unit I worked on (adult/CD) had us wear street clothes so as not to emphasize the divide between patients and staff. If I pulled a shift on the companion geropsych unit, I had to wear whites or scrubs because the philosophy was that older patients identified with a uniform and it made them feel more comfortable. I worked on two other geropsych units where I had the option to wear either scrubs or street clothes.
Our dtess code is strict.RN's wear Navy& white in any combo; LPN's wear mulberry & white - no more than w piece of white; techs -green/white (white lomited to w piece ony);ancillaries-teal. Etc. Holoday wear: day of holiday only, except Christmas which is Dec1-Jan1. Now, we think we should be able to wear Bearcats stuff EVERY game day and Bengals wear EVERY game day.we are generally not allowed, except at our Unityed Way kickpff
I'm a Buckeye, so you can bet your bottom dollar I wear scarlet and gray!
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