Dress code.....

[indianahope]

Just wondering about what other RN's working out in the field are wearing.....Street clothes/Lab jackets? Scrubs?

[Hospicetex]

During the week we wear a required color scrub set, while during weekend call we can wear nice jeans with our logo t shirts.

[tewdles, RN]

I wear casual clothes. I use a white lab coat if I am visiting patients in a hospital setting. Our field staff are not allowed to wear denim jeans.

[Sue Damonas, BSN]

We can wear street clothes but pants have to be navy blue or tan. Shirts have to be navy blue or white. Scrub jackets are optional but have to be blue or white. Or navy or white scrubs.

[tewdles, RN]

I worked for a hospice where all field staff were required to wear navy blue scrubs...profession or setting didn't matter. I worked for another where all nursing staff were required to wear white.

I much prefer to have an option...

[americanTrain]

Our boss is ok for dress clothes, ie.. dress slacks, nice top. white lab coat preferred over top.

She states that the pts in home are much more likely to feel frightened by the "doctor or nurse"

approach. Of course you always have a name badge, and they know you are the nurse. Somedays,

I will wear scrubs, but only if nothing else is clean. In scrubs, I feel very unprofessional, because now these

days, everyone is wearing scrubs, even at school. I feel like more of a nurse in dress clothes, but everyone says I look like a social worker. Oh, well, I adress that area of the care plan too, dont we all as hospice nurses.

I think dress clothes and a lab coat make a great first

impression. I'll tell you what, if a pt is fearful of nurses, doctors, I take the lab coat off, unless I'm doing wound care, foley, etc.. My pts always comment on how nice I look. Makes a sometimes dreary visit more brighter. Leaves me leaving feeling good too.

[anticoagulationurse]

Scrubs. Easy and comfy and effortless.

[AtlantaRN, RN]

scrubs during the week, nice dress jeans with scrub shirt, or casual shirt with a lab jacket.....on the weekend

[Hospice Nurse LPN, BSN, RN]

Mandatory teal scrubs (with company logo) during the week. Weekends, whatever is handy and clean.

[debblynn13]

Nice street clothes, no jeans and Lab coat. I admit I don't do the lab coat most of the time. I don't like advertising to the neighbors that I'm the nurse. Also I get too hot wearing a coat over my normal clothing. I have also had dementia patients that respond better to no coat.....and I had one that responded better to a coat. I do wear the lab coat into hospitals and into nursing homes at least until they know who I am.

[annacnatorn]

scrubs...Unless you are going into a shady part of town, then I wear street cloths, I try to fit in with the area. I don't want to attract any sort of attention. But scrubs, easy, also, wearing scrubs gets you out of some traffic or parking tickets. And I don't ever never ever carry my purse in to patients homes, I put it in my trunk in the way back before leaving home, carry in my pocket the necessities (I use a travel pouch that I hang around my neck that contains my

DL, LIC, auto ins, a cc for gas and some cash)

[rockchalkjayhawk]

We wear casual/business attire during the week and whatever you have on at the moment, on the weekend. BUT, we are moving toward a scrubs dress code soon.

As a Hospice Director, I have come to realize that everyone has their own opinion as to what casual/business attire actually means. We have those that wear very faded blue to black jeans and simple tops to looking like we are attending a formal wedding! Then there are times when shirts are so low cut that if the staff member bends, well you get my drift. I just got tired of telling them how inappropriate they are dressed. You would think as adults we could figure the simplest things out!

It was discussed, going to either a strict casual dress code with all specifics spelled out on what they could and could not wear or going to more of a Scrub type uniform. They were able to mutually choose 2 styles of tops and pants of their choice also choosing them in colors of their choice. There was some disgruntlement at first, but now they cant wait to get them ordered.