ER Dept Scrub Color

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Hello,

Do you have ER Department Scrub Colors. We currently can wear anything and it is impossible to tell the ER Staff from housekeeping.

What colors do you wear? What do you like or dislike about that color?

Specializes in ER, ICU, L&D, OR.

Welcome to the wonderfull world of ER nursing

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Specializes in ER, PACU.

We are supposed to wear royal blue scrubs, but we wear whatever scrubs we want really, I feel that as long as you are wearing scrubs and not street clothes what does it matter. I dont think anyone who has patient contact RN's, CNA's MD's whatever should be made to wear white..Very impractical in this day and age.

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I concur, but all white looks better than pink pants and a top with smiling frogs on it!

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RN's & LPN's wear navy blue

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at the last hospital I worked at, the nurses wore scrubs (anything; OR was the only dept to wear hospital scrubs) and housekeeping & dietary wore uniforms. They didn't like it but the nurses loved it :) Aides/techs, secretaries, radiology still wore scrubs too, so that potential confusion was not eliminated, but at least no one mistook the housekeeper for their nurse!

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the color your staff chooses is not as important as a general consensus.

i have been in ed since 1979. that dept. wore light blue. others have an anything goes policy. royal blue seems to dominate in tx. personally i like navy, but whatever the color, the most important color is your personality. "hi, i am an rn and my name is ... i am your nurse"

some of the other policy implementations looked good, ie large letters identifying the person.

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Specializes in Ultrasound guided peripheral IV's..

We recently went to all Navy scrubs for the Nurses, and wine colored for the tech's, which makes it very easy to identify who the nurses are from the techs.

Funny thing though, one of the Attending Dr.'s happened to wear in Wine colored scrubs the other day when we had a large number of agency tech's on the floor. One of them made the bad mistake of thinking that he was a tech and tried to get him to do some tech type duties. Don't know for sure what they were, but you can only imagine her horor when she found out who he was!:rotfl:

Needless to say, she wanted to hide under a cart for a long time, and we took full advantage of giving the Doc a very hard time about it as well!

Dan

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We can wear any color

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We can wear any color. However, our hospital has gone to the additional badge with the BIG (and I mean BIG) RN on it that fits below the regular badge. We have the BIG name tags for RN, ED TECH, USR (ward clerk), MD Attending and MD Resident.

Do you like that? Sounds like a good idea.

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I like that better than white, but i think color-coding staff is better. I just hate white scrubs. Technically, they aren't really scrubs.

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What ever we want.

I just identify myself "Hi my name is Stephanie and I'm the RN today - what brings you to the ER?. :)

steph

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

I once did clinical in an ER where their scrub color was white. Now if there was ever a dept. where that color isn't ideal, THAT was it!

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