After years, my hospital is going to a dress code. I actually think I am going to like it. T-shirts have been allowed (hospital name only) and that has been getting abused horribly.
Peds get to have cute print tops (EBP shows it helps).
I just have to find a home for all my old scrubs! many are pretty new, I had weight loss surgery and had to buy smaller size. I think I am going to call my old HH agency and donate. CNAs don't get paid enough to buy alot.
For those of you that had to change, do/did you get a stipend or a vendor discount? I need at least 2 weeks of scrubs (if not more).
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
We received a 30% coupon for one set of scubs at a local store. I bougnt one there an two more online. A weeks worth of scrubs. I like it and there are no decisions about what to wear. Hospital wide nurses, tech, respiratory, and ancillary staff all have their own color. It helps if you explain the colors to the patients. Otherwise they often have no clue who they are talking to. My grandma was hospitalized last winter and when I picked her up she stated "I realize white is not practical but I still miss the days when nurses wore white. I have no idea who anyone is and I'm pretty sure I asked the janitor for pain medication."
Actually, it doesn't really help. The majority of patients and family members don't get it even with a full color brochure in their hands and another on the 52 inch TV in front of them. They still have no clue who they're talking to. They'll ask the housekeeper for pain medication, the nurse to clean the bathroom and the CNA to explain that PT exercise "one more time."
The whole color coded scrubs idea is just one more way for management to put their collective foot on our collective necks in the name of "patient satisfaction." The patients, for the most part, don't care. And of the ones who DO care, most of them would rather have their nurse wear individual scrubs so they can describe her as "the one with the Minnie Mouse top" rather than "the fat white woman who is at least 60" or "the gorgeous black girl -- no, not that one. The other one."
Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.
We are part of a 3 hosp system and the others are already doing it. we are the largest facility so getting anything done takes longer. The float pool has been wearing certain colors for a while. I'm ok with it. We are wearing Royal Blue.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
We are part of a 3 hosp system and the others are already doing it. we are the largest facility so getting anything done takes longer. The float pool has been wearing certain colors for a while. I'm ok with it. We are wearing Royal Blue.
Wearing royal blue scrubs would be a good reason to start looking for a new job in my book!
We have to buy our own at a particular shop because of the embroidery. Its silly because transport wears the same color as nurses so it really does nothing.
Ruby Vee, BSN
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Actually, it doesn't really help. The majority of patients and family members don't get it even with a full color brochure in their hands and another on the 52 inch TV in front of them. They still have no clue who they're talking to. They'll ask the housekeeper for pain medication, the nurse to clean the bathroom and the CNA to explain that PT exercise "one more time."
The whole color coded scrubs idea is just one more way for management to put their collective foot on our collective necks in the name of "patient satisfaction." The patients, for the most part, don't care. And of the ones who DO care, most of them would rather have their nurse wear individual scrubs so they can describe her as "the one with the Minnie Mouse top" rather than "the fat white woman who is at least 60" or "the gorgeous black girl -- no, not that one. The other one."