Oooohhhh, Now I feel cosmopoliten, do you ALL wear scrubs?

karenG · Jan 16, 2003

hi Rncountry

yes, beverly does have an impressive cv. not sure how she got the job here- cant remember if she was head hunted. we dont get a say in who is head of the RCN! so we cant vote her out! we dont hear very much about her work so difficult to judge how effective she is. not sure she has much understanding as to how our health care system works- or not as the case may be!! it is certainly different to yours! so no dynamic things happening! not sure how long her contract is............. and employing her has led to the RCN becoming very PC. one of the more effective leaders at the RCN was forced to resign for making a remark which could have offended Beverly. I cant remember the remark! sad.

Karen

Laura C · Jan 16, 2003

In reading the threads I read a comment from mario_ragucci that bothered me a little. By no means am I over weight, but some of my good friends and co-worker are. She stated that in Portland, Orgen the over weight people are hated. I think that is very strange. not everyone has the perfect body for what ever reason.But it does not make them a bad person, or a bad nurse. I know alot of heavy ladies that are excellent nurses and they dress very clean and are pretty ladies. My question is why do you hate over weight nurses/people?

BritishStudent · Jan 16, 2003

Originally posted by karenG
you would need both when I get my sabre out!!! and flattering us will get you no-where...............we've dealt with students before!!!! more to the point........do you drink beer ( a time honoured student tradition!!)

Karen

Well, alcohol is an intresting question I must confess, Ive had to scratch whisky, vodka (god I miss it), brandy and alchopops of the list of drinks I like to drink, cause I tend to just keep drinking till I spew everywhere... and then cant stand the taste anymore...

So now I'm onto cider, never liked beer or larger, its low on mylist of drinks to have......

In truth I thik I'll stopdrinking soon, but not yet, especialy after some of our worse lectures....

karenG · Jan 16, 2003

are you sure you are a student nurse????????? I am ashamed of you, good job you were not in my group!! we all drank copious amounts and managed to work with awful hangovers!!!!!!

oh, the youth of today!!!!!!!!

Karen

RNagape · Jan 16, 2003

I'm an ICU nurse and we generally wear whatever color scrubs we want. I find hospital issue green the most comfy, but I never wear them as pajamas-- reminds me too much of work. The shoes are what I think is funny. In nursing school it was all white only. Now it's whatever. we have a nurse who wears cowboy boots with his scrubs!

chrisrob · Jan 17, 2003

I'm an Occ Health nurse working in heavy industry in a male dominted workplace I dont wear a uniform but due to the Nature of the job i wear trousers mainly jeans I love my uniform! in my last job CCu (ICU) we wore scrubs At the local hospital here staff wear scrubs in ER, ICU and ITU this might just be because uniforms get soiled and it is easier to supply scrubs than extra unifoms I dont know it was a lot easier to work in CCU in scrubs they were really comfortable.

YukonSean · Jan 18, 2003

Yes, in Canada, the vast majority of nurses wear scrubs these days. During my training, women were not allowed to sport gaudy or jingly jewellery, and were required to have only plain clear nail polish etc. Males had to have hair cut above the collar line, and schools of nursing had a specific uniform code, e.g., I wore the 'dentist' style of tunic and trousers, all in white. I also nursed in London, England, in the 1980s, and at that time, men wore a 'military' or 'naval' style uniform, complete with epaulets on the shoulders. In certain areas today (such as paediatrics or labour and delivery), one sees nurses wearing scrubs that are often printed with bright cartoon patterns. I recall when particular paramedical disciplines wore specific colours of scrub, e.g., navy for respiratory therapists, etc. The standard hospital-issue green scrub is normally worn by perioperative staff (i.e., Theatre nurses and doctors).

Alas, with much challenge, my wife managed to obtain some nurses' maternity dresses while she was expecting. These are worth their weight in gold!

I myself have done inpatient psychiatry and community mental health for years: plain clothes! In Canada RN is the abbreviation for Registered Nurse, analogous to Registered General Nurse in the British Isles. Traditionally, Canadian RNs trained for three years at community college (in our vernacular, "diploma nurses"), or four years at university ("degree nurses"). However, nearly every Canadian jurisdiction is presently phasing out diploma programmes, with baccalaureate entry to practise scheduled to become mandatory by 2005. Universities here offer a variety of post-dilpoma bachelor's courses. Licensed Practical Nurses (LPN; also known as Registered Practical Nurses in some provinces) do a one or two academic year course at college, and are comparable to the enrolled nurses in the U.K. In our four western provinces only, there are Registered Psychiatric Nurses (RPN), who study either two years at college, or four years for a bachelor of science in mental health nursing. I believe these are similar to the RMNs in Ireland and Britain. Finally, in some chronic care facilities such as nursing homes, one might see Health Care Aides, which I think are similar to the Auxiliary Nurses mentioned by the British Student nurse. Nurse training was transferred from Canadian hospitals to the colleges and universities, I think in the late 1970s. Hope this helps!

Sean.

pjdk9 · Jan 19, 2003

I work in critical care and do Open Heart recovery. Most do wear scrubs but not provided by hospital

I'm in So Fl and we used to be able to wear fish/tropical patterns but no longer. We only can wear white or royal blue scrubs/uniforms!

mario_ragucci · Jan 20, 2003

Originally posted by Laura C
In reading the threads I read a comment from mario_ragucci that bothered me a little.

My question is why do you hate over weight nurses/people?

Please Laura...I didn't mean to bother you, and I always apologize up front for my words. It bothers me too, and is why I said it, so people might help to stomp it out.

We are programmed to dislike a certain body shape, as opposed to accepting everyone. 100% of the time you will be reminded of something to lose weight and look better, and 0% messages for just loving one another (which starts with loving yourself). In our civilization, it's okay to make fun of each other in any way we can, and I don't like it. It makes us all at odds with each other by default, hurts everyone and promotes disharmony. All you have to do is look into a persons eyes and share love...you don't have to make an issue about looks. Don't want to sound like a hypocrite, because I did say I have certain tastes, but in my world I think of loving each other as a default, when in this reality caring for and loving anyone et. al. is a reserved feeling we should be sharing amongst each other too. I'm sorry :-(

ballyk · Jan 20, 2003

I had to laugh , when you were talking about the colonies I was sure you meant AUSTRALIA. The best insult anyone ever gave me wa in Scotland ,a nd when I was trying to make her a cup of tea (bare with me long story) I asked was that balck or white? She repleid in this very toffy accent "tea , MY DEAR COLONIAL is WITH ,milk or without" I still laugh about it now." Yes she was a rude so and so but the insult was precious!

PS in my workplace ICU nurses wear scrubs our ED docs wear green (so they can be like ER LOL) and everyone else wears whatever they like in a coporate theme. me I wear trousers/shorts when its hot (as long as my legs are shaved) and a shirt NOT A pretty site if you are doing CPR or responding to aggressive pateint in a dress

das · Jan 22, 2003

I work in a Hem/Onc Office and I wear srubs. First for comfort second because I am the mixing nurse. Yep~I mix those nasty drugs and I launder my own scrubs too. Our hospital went to all scrubs and the nurses are responsible for their own scrubs laundering except. ICU/CCU, OR, Cath lab, Ob/SCN and Special procedures. :rolleyes:

BritishStudent · Jan 22, 2003

In britian, Scrubs (in the OR, ER and ICU's) have a low Vneck cut (at least the only ones Ive seen) and the girls all tape up the fronts so they dont show clevage

do you have this problem? :cool: