Help design new nursing uniform

flowerchild · Jul 11, 2003

I forgot all about our jail inmates wearing scrubs. The local county jail issues bright orange scrubs to prisoners. Just think, I could buy and wear orange scrubs and end up being treated like an escaped prisoner.

NicuNsg · Jul 11, 2003

I will wear a cap, only if the MD's do the same!!!! I believe that caps and stuffy uniforms will not help you to perform at a higher standard nor will it establish a better interpersonal relationship with your client or their family. When working with little people and their parents they need to feel comfortable and not intimidated by all the crisp white.........I think people are loosing the idea behind Florence Nightengale, it was what she did, not what she wore!!!!!!!!

iliel · Jul 11, 2003

LPN2Be2004

I agree with you, it's unnerving to think that inmates are allowed to wear the same uniforms of hardworking healthcare profs. (even if it's orange I have orange!),

We choose scrubs only because we have no other choice. If someone has the chance to came out with something new and dif, then why not. I enjoy taking surveys, atleast I can say I tried to change something or I had a hand in it! :)

Besides, nurses work hard for their degrees, something to seperate them from the rest would be a nice idea!

Dublin37 · Jul 12, 2003

How about if all other employees in the hospital wore......oh let's say WHITE. Let them worry about keeping it clean. And all of them could wear little crisp caps.

We brilliant nurses will wear our multi-style fitted cotton/rayon or cotton/spandex outfits full of color and style. All the patients will of course recognize us by STYLE and know that all other hospital personell will be in the uncomfortable, stained white polyester outfits. So........that's what I think.

I would also just LOVE to be able to wear some soft lightweight comfy jeans on Fridays! I'd even be willing to wear a little white cap for the trade off!

Heather:chuckle

iliel · Jul 13, 2003

Oh, and I don't like the idea of a star system. From what I understand, in the military, everyone has a pretty equal chance to move up and everyone starts at the same point. If we use stars as education classification, we open the door to discrimination. Not everyone has the same chance at education. I don't know any other job where you would do the same thing.

It's a bad, bad idea! I want to do my eduaction at my own pace and not feel like I'm being juged by the number of stars next to my name!

tonchitoRN · Jul 13, 2003

at my facility we were only required to stay with a particular color of uniform. you could wear whatever style you wanted. so if you don't like the look of a scrub go out and buy something else that suits your taste and figure.

sbic56, BSN, RN · Jul 13, 2003

The recent buzz at our facility is to have each discipline wear their own color. That is a good idea, just so the patients can know who belongs to what department. Just hate to see the different levels of nursing segregated from one another. That is a bad idea.

Geeg · Jul 13, 2003

The best uniform I can think of is one provided free of charge by the hospital. I hate spending my own hard earned $$$ so that pts can deposit bodily fluids on them.

TinyNurse, RN · Jul 14, 2003

I filled out the survey.

I'm a new grad and had horrible uniforms, haha

I say that white pants with a white professional type jacket ( not just a scrub jacket but something that tethers/ties in the back,)

and a plain tee shirt of a certain color ( green, or blue) should be worn as a student. I also think that the nursing school emblem should be on the sleeve, ( and nametag) so the clients/nurses, etc know that this person is a student.

xo

Jenni

Oh, i wanted to add that my nursing school uniforms were about 140 dollars. top and pants shoes were extra. haha. yeah it was bad.

Ariko · Jul 14, 2003

I agree with the professional look. I always wear white shoes and often wear white pants.

I would love a UNIFORM that distinctly designates nurses, with white shoes. I'm tired of being mistaken for a doctor (I'm male and older), but I do enjoy telling them "No, I'm a nurse" and watching their faces as they process the information and get their heads readjusted a bit. I miss the white dresses and caps, which are so identified with nursed, but what can a guy wear that looks equally distinct and professional?

I'm sure someone will reply, "Why, you should wear a white dress and cap, silly!" I easily have enough hair for a cap, but what happens to bald, (presumably male) nurses? (I have real problems with bald women, but by then they are usually too old to be nursing.)

Cheers.

AMV · Jul 14, 2003

At our hospital we were scrubs that signify who we are. For example, nursing staff (RN, LVN) wear navy scrubs and can also wear white with this or all white. CNA's (nursing assistants) and our tele techs wear maroon, pharmacy wears purple, RT wears teal, PT light blue, etc. etc. no patterns, just solid colors. Also housekeeping has their own specific uniform that is gray and white pinstripped.

I wasn't sure what I would think when I started here, but I really like this system!! You know who people are (nursing or non-nursing) and so do the patients! Also it is very easy in deciding what to wear that day!! :)

Now our case managers wear street clothes and the nurse practitioners wear street clothes and lab coat - but doesn't that make sense?? While I agree with looking and being as professional as possible, I can't imagine wearing street clothes and a lab coat (like the Doc's and nurse practitioners do) and doing what I do in a 12-hour day on a PCU unit!! That would be crazy and impractical. I also think that if your scrubs are not all wrinkled, but are neat and clean and ironed and your appearance as far as hair, etc. looks professional - you will look professional. Our patients EXPECT us to be wearing scrubs or some sort of uniform - I think that is just the "image" the public has about healthcare professionals. Much of the time the doctors are coming from the OR or cath lab in scrubs themselves and when I used to work in Day Surgery (in another hospital), EVERYONE has scrubs on! (The confusion there was that EVERYONE from Techs to Dr's had on powder blue scrubs and the patients had NO IDEA who anyone was - nurses wore badges they could see - when they weren't flipped around or at their waist- but doctors didn't...) I really don't think scrubs makes us look less professional at all.

itsme · Jul 14, 2003

I would be all for the lab coats/scrub jackets, but our facilty is sooooo hot that even the old folks that live there at times complain that it is hot!! They do work well in the winter though, cuz in the winter that building is cooooldddd!!!