clinical uniforms

kimtab · Dec 10, 2002

Just curious for the person required to wear white undergarments...how the heck do they know if you are in compliance? Do they make you strip if they don't see visible panty lines? Weird!

essarge · Dec 10, 2002

WHITE, WHITE, WHITE, WHITE! That basically describes out uniform. No clogs, white underwear (you can tell under white uniforms), and the uniform itself....well, even peter pan wouldn't wear it!! One more year after this and IT WILL BE BURNED!!!

We are the only school that actually wears a nursing uniform (not scrubs like most schools). Talk about sticking out like a sore thumb!! I opt for a "consultation" jacket. Many pockets and very comfortable also.

BMS4 · Dec 10, 2002

Where I went to school, they were three programs. My school wore all white including undergarments (most white uniforms are pretty see through). One of the schools was a private Christian BSN program, they wore lite blue dresses with the nursing cap. The students hated them.

MelSky · Dec 10, 2002

we have to wear all white white pants, white shirt, white shoes, and white lab coat. and we can't wear scrub tops because the head of the nursing dept. at my school thinks they're too low cut, risque, and unprofessional. she's such a crack head, i swear.

MidwifeWannaB · Dec 10, 2002

I just found out that we wear a green polo short, white scrub pants (BAD for women, don't you think?!) and a white vest with our school patch on the chest. No hats. I'm sorry, Loubell.

MidwifeWannaB · Dec 10, 2002

Whoa, didn't mean to make that scary face. :) Sorry.

:nurse:

aimee

PennyLane, RN · Dec 10, 2002

The fact that men don't have to wear them seems pretty sexist to me. Nursing has changed a lot over the years, along with the rest of the medical field. To me the hat exemplifies all the usual stereotypes about nurses just being there for TLC. What an awful way to make the white hat nurses stand out from the male nurses! This way it's almost like the men are above the women in hierarchy. I would definitely protest that!!!

jdomep · Dec 10, 2002

No hats here :) White pants and a turquois blue shirt w/logo and scrub jackets - we all look very nice and I think we stand out as students;)

BTW - Are white thongs permisable? And how would they know...LOL

vashka25 · Dec 10, 2002

Our class is organizing a grad party in which we are all going to BURN our whites !!!!!

(On a funny note: we don't get hats or pinned for our grad ceremonies or pics...and my class is mad....we want to wear the darn hat and get pinned just like our nursing ancestors have for the past few hundred years)..... must be a Canadian thing...lol.

Jenn_RN · Dec 10, 2002

We have to wear red scrubs with our school patch and a white knee length lab coat also with the patch. A lot of the students have been complaining, but I like them (I look better in red than any other color, haha). White shoes, can be clogs but they have to have a back. :)

EmeraldNYL, BSN, RN · Dec 10, 2002

I know most younger nurses hate the idea of hats, but one of my professors was saying the other day that she wishes they would bring them back. She is an older woman, and says she was mistaken for a housekeeper the other day while working in the hospital because everyone dresses the same! Her argument is that hats distinguish nurses from all the other people in the hospital. What do you guys think about this? Just a thought...

bet0326 · Dec 10, 2002

Originally posted by kimtab
Just curious for the person required to wear white undergarments...how the heck do they know if you are in compliance? Do they make you strip if they don't see visible panty lines? Weird!

That's a great question. Nursing minds would like to know!!:chuckle