DUMB QUESTION re: NP attire in UK

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I need to know this for a project I'm working on - and I've Googled and searched but I can't get an answer.

Do the NPs that work in the NHS clinics wear uniforms, and if they do, what do they look like?

I've been to UK hospitals and seen the uniforms of the staff nurses, but I don't know about the NPs. Here they dress a lot like the MDs - smart business wear to smart casual - and wear shorter white coats (I work in academic medicine and the length of your coat is TERRIBLY important). If they dress like that I could have very well seen one and not caught it. (I'm married to a Brit and have been multiple times to the NHS facility in Southampton as a visitor.)

Thanks for your replies.

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Specializes in Dialysis, Nephrology & Cosmetic Surgery.

The answer is they could wear anything depending on the hospital. The hospital I work in has quite a few NPs and some wear navy blue scrubs, another wears navy trousers and a pale blue tunic - which I find confusing as it is the same colour, different design to the HCAs. Another I know wears his own clothes, trousers, shirt and tie.

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

I saw a NP once in one of the NHS Direct walk in clinics and she wore smart casual and where I used to work in the GP surgery the NP wore smart casual

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Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.

in acute settings the NPs are usually in the same uniforms as first and second line line nursing management ( i.e. sisters /CNs , ward managers and Matrons) i.e. navy blue uniforms . the exception in the trust i work for is the infection control team who are in the dark grey uniforms worn by the heads of nursing.

primary care - in GPland it will depend on the practice for PCT staff it's generally uniforms from what i have seen

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Ok - just curious: what is "smart casual"?

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Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.
Ok - just curious: what is "smart casual"?

from a boy point of view

trousers ( tailored or chinos) and a shirt quite possibly open necked as opposed to a suit or a uniform ... you might well also get away with less smart ( and none black) shoes

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

Where I work the NP's wear different uniforms to the ward / clinic nurses, we either wear navy scubs with enbroidered "Nurse Practitioner" and your speciality. We also have some who wear civillan smart clothes as well depending on what they are doing.

If I am ward based then I wear scrubs, if I am on a clinic day i will wear a suit.

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Specializes in midwifery, ophthalmics, general practice.

primary care - in GPland it will depend on the practice for PCT staff it's generally uniforms from what i have seen

I'd have to disagree with that. Unless the NP is actually employed by the PCT (and I can only think of one that I know of) what an NP wears in a GP practice is dependant on what the GP's say! I've worked in one practice where black jeans and a polo shirt were acceptable. My current practice require me to wear a suit.. so suit trousers, shirt and jacket.

Karen

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Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.
I'd have to disagree with that. Unless the NP is actually employed by the PCT (and I can only think of one that I know of) what an NP wears in a GP practice is dependant on what the GP's say! I've worked in one practice where black jeans and a polo shirt were acceptable. My current practice require me to wear a suit.. so suit trousers, shirt and jacket.

Karen

why are you diagreeing with the point i've just made when you make exactly the same point immediately below ?

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h'mm only met one NP who wore smart casual in the GP surgery.

A+E NP wore sister scrubs(navy)

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