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Maybe the low-cut shirt is inappropriate but it wasn't like they were doing clinical. They were just getting their clinical info. I know days that I'm not working, I feel like I have to counteract my days of wearing scrubs by dressing up a little.
Just my two cents. Maybe if it becomes a bigger problem, suggest to their instructor that they have a dress code for clinical prep-work.
Maybe the low-cut shirt is inappropriate but it wasn't like they were doing clinical. They were just getting their clinical info. I know days that I'm not working, I feel like I have to counteract my days of wearing scrubs by dressing up a little.Just my two cents. Maybe if it becomes a bigger problem, suggest to their instructor that they have a dress code for clinical prep-work.
But they were still in the hospital setting and they were interviewing the patients. It is a hospital and not the night club. I guess since I'm older I have a different way of thinking in regards to what is appropriate to wear to various settings.
Even the charge nurse said something about the way the 2 students were dressed.
We had white uniforms and the shirts had the school patch on the sleeve, as did our white lab coats. Close-toed shoes, all white (I had to use white out to cover a light gray stripe on the sides) and the uniform. If we were in psych or peds it was business casual but nothing low-cut, nothing short, no high heels, no open-toe shoes. Our clinical instructor would send us home and we'd get an incomplete for that day's clinical rotation, or the facility would call the school and complain if we violated it!
We were required to wear business casual and our lab coats. The school affiliated with the hospital where I work requires the same. The school I graduated from ended up having to require nursing students to wear graduation cap and gown to the pinning ceremony "because too many students dressed inappropriately." I assume that means too revealing, too formal (as in, the dress you'd wear to prom style), or too informal. I think several schools or the hospitals that host clinicals have started requiring uniforms to be worn because the students don't have a sense for what is appropriate attire.
we never had to come the day before to do research, and im glad we didnt! i find that idea kind of silly anyway. when they become nurses, they dont come in on their day off to look up their patients so they will be prepared the next day. as students they have generally 6-8 hours with one or two patients, surely that is enough time to gather all of the info they need for their careplans?!
as for the dress code, yes, what they were wearing was inappropriate. they should have to wear their uniforms all the time. how are you to know some girl wearing heels and a low cut top looking through charts and computers is a nursing student, or just some nosey visitor who found a lab coat laying around?
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I was at work yesterday and the floor I was on had students there preparing for clinicals today. I was floored!! Two of the students had on leggings and super high platform heels. One had on a low cut shirt with her lab coat. I was thinking to myself is this a hospital or a night club?
And the clinical instructor was there!!!