What color was your student uniform?

essarge · Oct 20, 2001

White pants, white top with school patch on sleeve. The top has ugly white applets with buttons on it, a tie belt that looks ridiculous and a zip up front!! White shoes...........pillsbury dough boy comes to mind!

bungies · Oct 20, 2001

You poor people who have/had to wear the pinafore look - our uniform is a unisex chambray shirt (very light denim) with the school logo on the pocket in red & navy, and navy pants. I wore it for the last time two weeks ago (!!)

Nursing in Melbourne is very casual; if you wear a uniform it's (usually) voluntary, to keep from getting your own clothes dirty. And we often don't have to buy our own scrubs, either.

newgirl · Nov 2, 2001

For nursing school we wore WHITE uniform with a white lab coat over it... we had to have the patch on the left shoulder..and they were strict...we were sent home for any color on the uniform and for ANY scuffs on our shoes... for work now we wear purple scrubs...the critical care is all the same color and all the other areas the nurses wear all white

Jenny P · Nov 2, 2001

School uniform: Cleaning lady blue button up the front dress with white collar and cuffs covered by an Alice in Wonderland apron; large school cap had black stripes on corner signalling what year you were in. (not as bad as some of the other ones people have mentionewd here-- we all looked very professional in them-- and it was back in the days when everyone IRONED everything and there weren't many male nurses!)

I wore a white turtle neck and royal blue scrub pants with a night sky scrub jacket to work night before last.

puzzler · Nov 2, 2001

Student uniforms--LPN was medium blue with black pinstripes and a white apron shoulders to hem; RN uniform was white--had to wear caps with both.

The uniform I wore tonight was navy blue pants and white top (nothing exciting here--LOL) BUT--I do not wear a cap anymore although I did not really mind it when I wore it everyday I worked for over 10 years. I know, I know, no one wears them anymore.

Magicat · Nov 2, 2001

School: Teal green scrubs with white jacket. And - yes - I graduated in 1997 - a tall nursing cap. Last year with black velvet stripe.

Today: Navy jacket and pants with my Piggy Party print top. I wear all different kinds of tops and combinations of colors. Mostly dark as I am fair and blonde. But we own our own uniform store, so I get whatever I want at wholesale price. :)

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Magicat · Nov 2, 2001

This is my graduation picture

goldgram · Nov 2, 2001

I guess I am dating myself but my first year student uniform color was pink!! They were dresses and fully starched, just like a board, we had to actually "break starch" every morning. Even our caps were pink, we were called "pinkies" everyone called us that even the patients!!

In our second and third year we had same uniforms but they were white, for juniors there was no ribbon on the cap and for seniors it was a blue velvet ribbon, but we always had the starch!

We also had to wear shoes with a leather sole!

I beleive last monday I wore brightly mixed scrub jacket with an orange scrub top for the season! Even the old can change!

:)

kenmill · Nov 2, 2001

I am a nursing student. We're pretty lucky, thanks to previous graduating class complaints. We used to have to wear all white, which in their complaint were never thick enough to hide your underwear. Now we wear dark wine/burgandy scrubs. The only problem is that as a male, I am having trouble finding scrubs redily available.

NurseDennie, BSN, RN · Nov 2, 2001

My nursing school has hideous uniforms, too. Is it a requirement, somehow? The uniform for my school has, over the years, become LESS hideous. I lucked out - the year before I started, the REQUIRED uniform was a hand-made white dress (looked like a cafeteria lady) with pintucks down the bodice, and a fullish skirt. The skirt had 2 seam pockets, not NEARLY big enough.

The year I started the dress looked the same, but it was manufactured, so we didn't have to pay over $100 for the stupid uniform dresses! My senior year, they picked out some uniforms that had a top that matched the dress, and trousers.

All white.

We were allowed to wear street wear for our psych and pediatrics rotations, and we wore the floor scrubs on the mother-child rotation. Wow - I loved that one. I could probably do that for a living.

Now, I'm a research nurse. I wear street clothes. When I was on the floor, we were allowed to wear white trousers and either white top or navy blue top. The navy blue trousers indicated service staff, so we couldn't just put on a set of navy blue scrubs. At that hospital, the dress code indicated that your hips be covered. There was a thread about see-through trousers, but that never affected me because of that. I generally bought a couple of pairs of white jeans or painter jeans and wore a teeshirt under a scrub shirt. I also had the most amazing BELT to hold all my stuff, I loved that.

The hospital where I work now, they wear everything. I've even seen people with black scrubs. I don't like the looks of that though.

Love

Dennie

PC Nurse · Nov 2, 2001

The uniforms at the Prince George's Community College in Landover, Md were a very fine blue and white pinstripe. The women wore a white shirt with this jumper and the men wore a "tunic" kinda thing. It was a long pull over shirt with 2 square pockets at the bottom (the hem went to the bottom of your pants zipper), an open neck (like a V-neck) with a large flat collar (think 1970's silk shirt) and a shirt pocket at the top with the school logo on the sleeve. Not a flattering style for a man.

Unfortunately, not only did we look bad, but this was the same uniform that the housekeeping staff at our hospital wore!

How embarrassing!

Michelle_nurse · Nov 2, 2001

All through nursing school, we had to wear a pale blue pant suit or a matching dress, with the nursing school badge on the left sleeve. No one wore the dress. (although I owned one and never wore it.

They were more strict about appearance, especially in the first half of the program. No make up, jewelry (except a watch), hair COMPLETELY up (none on the collar), white shoes and socks with no other colors on it.

When I got accepted, I bought the real ugly nursing shoes......but when I started everyone was wearing white running shoes.

Some schools around here, (except mine), allowed the student nurses in the last semester to wear scrubs,

I own mostly solid color srubs, I have one with nursey type prints on it that my friends mom made for me.

The last day I worked I wore a baby blue scrub top with white pants...............everything else was dirty, I just came back from British Columbia on vacation. I don't really like white!