ER Dept Scrub Color

[blufoxtrot]

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?

[KatieBell]

Well, the thing with Color Coding is that patients rarely know which color is which. BUT, if enough people are in the same color it provide a nice uniform look. My hospital provides scrubs- so everyone is in a sea of blue- and no one knows who is who. Well, it provides scrubs for ICU, OR and ER...the floors are in all sorts of things.

As a traveler I find that color coding unis helps me to ask the right people to do their job and not offend anyone....

This last hospital is the first one where housekeeping wears scrubs. and I do find it strange.

The BIG letters on the badge is a great idea.

All white was required in one of my hospitals for everywhere but the ED (navy of course for charcoal). The nurses- much as they said they hated it, did look very snappy.

[ImaERtraumaRN]

Our uniform colors are hospital-wide.

RN - Ceil blue or white

Tech - tropical green (?)

EMTs (ER only) - Hunter green

Housekeeping - multicolored tops (hospital issued all the same)

Lab - burgandy

Echo - Red

PT- purple

Radiology - OR green

Respiratory ther. - black

Now, white in the ER is not the smartest color, but since it is hospital-wide we go with it. Most wear Ceil blue. We can wear a white top underneath either color. I have to say it is better for our pts who have mentioned it time and time again that they like the uniformity. We are "supposed" to tell them the colors - mainly RNs, EMT/Techs and lab in the ER so they will know who is who, but that doesnt always happen for obvious reasons.

[RNCENCCRNNREMTP]

We wear black scrubs in the ER QUOTE]

COOL!!!!

I wish I could wear black scrubs!

We wear Landau wine colored scrubs, not too bad, but black?! Far Out!

[scampi710]

Has anyone read the thread on Arnold Schwarzenagger and the California Nurses Association? I think he should be outfitted in Skull and Crossbones.

[TiffyRN, BSN, PhD]

Ok, so I'm not in ER/ED however my husband used to go to all the local ED's as a Paramedic and he had an interesting comment. There was one particular hospital that had one of those color codes for all the different job descriptions. Now only that but they had signs all over the place that listed the colors and job descriptions. He said the patients still had no clue who anyone was. Some were too sick, some were confused, some had poor vision and whatever other reasons.

I am a big supporter of wearing the really big "RN" or "LVN" badge. In our hospital RN's in all departments wear Royal. LVN's have a different color and I honestly don't know what it is as there are no LVN's in our department.

[grammyr]

Our hosptial has color coding hospital wide except surgery(they wear a different color and nobody can tell me why.) All RN's wear royal blue, LPN's wear navy and CNA's wear ceil blue. If a patient has a compliment or complaint I guess we will have to hold a color chart up and ask which shade of blue was this person wearing.

I absolutely hate color coding. Especially since all of nursing is wearing a shade of blue. The reason we had to go to these new uniforms can be blamed on a handful of people who were wearing inappropriate clothing to work.. Well, guess what, they still wear inappropriate clothing, they just do it in the right colors. I guess the next step will be to tell me I can't wear my flourescent socks:madface:

[squidnurse]

We (nurses) wear black scrubs in our ED, and are the only unit in our facility with this color. The rationale for a unique color was two-fold: first, we respond to the codes, and we need to be quickly and easily identified as the code nurse in the god-awful press of people that'll inevitably show up. Second, it was decided that we needed a way to readily identify who the ED nurses were should we ever face a community disaster or mass casualty situation where nurses from other units would be floated down to assist us.

We do have to provide our own scrubs, which seems to be par for the course these days. The last ED I worked at had hospital-provided OR scrubs for us to wear.

[MagpieUSMC]

I'm not a nurse yet but I do work in the ER. All of the staff in the ER wear a while Landau jacket with our name job and Emergency Department in bright red embroidery.

[chip193]

I'm not a nurse yet but I do work in the ER. All of the staff in the ER wear a while Landau jacket with our name job and Emergency Department in bright red embroidery.

I'd hate that...I already spend most of my life sweating!

We wear whatever we want. Tonight three of us happen to be wearing black pants...but that's the definate exception.

Every now and then, we'll get together the night before and agree on a certain color. It generally makes the poor nursing supervisor think twice when he rounds and he will generally give us a weird look. For that reason alone, we do it!

Chip

[schoona]

In our ED both DR"S and Nuring staff wear Royal Blue scrubs. The pocket is embroidered with hospital name, emergency dept and then in yellow Nurse or Doctor (The embroidery means we can claim it on tax). All are happy, plus if I ever have a head injury I can look in the mirror and know I'm a nurse and where I work:lol2:

[new er nurse, BSN, RN]

I was looking through old threads and found this interesting one. Right now at the hospital I work at we are becoming color coded. Last year the nurses voted (union) to wear navy/white. Jackets could be print as long as the dominant color was navy. The other hospital in our system had no choice and was given hunter green/white with embroidery on the chest "property of ...". Now the COO has decided that both hospital need to have the same colors in every department. Needless to say nurses aren't happy. We spent big money getting our new blue/white scrubs and now won't be able to wear them. CT's will be khaki, radiology cranberry, unit clerks black/white etc. The hospital is buying all full time employees 3 sets and part timers 2 sets. That's the only way they could by pass the union. I think it's a total waste of the hospital's money. We recently had to be fitted and the new scrubs are VERY THIN and cheaply made. The only good thing is the other departments will be color coded too. When the nurses had to change no one else had to and anyone even housekeeping could wear blue/white.

[canoehead, BSN, RN]

We wear any scrubs. I'd have to take up drinking if they made me wear white.

Actually a nice red and brown plaid seems like it would be the most practical design, what with the blood and ...ahem...Betadine flying around.