Horrid clinical uniforms

styRN · Mar 3, 2007

Just curious: is the uniform the same for the women?

Here's my entry for the fugliest uniform ever:

circa mid '80's

the obligatory white pants/white shoe combo (had to be ALL white shoes - no visible colour at all on the entire shoe)

the men's top was a white barber's-style cross-over front tunic with about 2 dozen snaps across the collar and side, but the kicker was the wide powder blue-striped trim on all the edges of the tunic, with wide, blue epaulets at the shoulders. It also tapered horrendously at the waist, only to flare out again at the hips. Since the guys, obviously, didn't wear a nursing cap, we had to sew a wide powder blue velour strip on the chest pocket to denote our nursing student status.

Atl_John · Mar 4, 2007

I guess I can't complain then. We have two uniforms actually at Auburn Univ.

Standard- White zip up top, with pockets on both sides, and one breast. School Logo and Orange/Blue strips around the sleeves near the end. Choice of Navy Blue Pants (Can be scrub bottoms) or White Pants. Most of us choose the Navy Blue obviously. All white shoes

Scrubs-Orange Scrubs with an AU logo on it, along with our Navy Blue Pants, White Lab Coat 3/4 length.

I'm pretty sure I'd die if I had to wear what ya'll do. Yikes a baby blue vest. Good God.

NurseDaddy2006 · Mar 4, 2007

Makes mine seem not so bad. They're allowing white scrub tops instead of the tunic tops now. I have one but not the brand they specify, so rather than hear it I wear the old tunic top that fits me like a tent.

And they're a stickler about the all white shoes too. I bought Rockport walking shoes online, they were supposed to be white but when I got them they were eggshell so I painted them with shoe paint. They've held up amazingly well.

Medwynn · Mar 4, 2007

Well our cc just changed our uniforms. You can wear forest green now for pants but still a white scrub or polo shirt top.

I am still wearing my white pants with white shoes and white polo shirt. i just don't want to spend anymore for the green stuff... who can blame me.

But wearing that vest.... yikes. sorry to hear that.

antihippie · Mar 6, 2007

I must be just born lucky, our uniforms aren't bad at all. We wear royal bkue scrubs with a white t-shirt underneath (or long sleeves for me because of tatoos) and I have been wearing low top Chuck Taylors in clinical for the past year with no complaints. They're white but have a red and a blue stripe on the sides. The only real complaint I have is that the brand of uniform they insist we wear have zero pockets in the pants.

MikeyJ, RN · Mar 20, 2007

I start my program in a few months (Summer 2007); however, I am actually excited to wear our uniforms. Both the top and bottom scrubs are a deep blood-colored red with our school logo imprinted on the arm. And of course white shoes, and the white lab coat with the school patch as well. I think they look pretty sharp.

Sorry about the vest! Eek! :eek:

justme1972 · Mar 20, 2007

I have to take first place for the LAMEST clinical uniforms ever!
White pants, polo shirt and shoes (not bad). The worst part of the uniform is the vest!Its a long blue vest with many pockets. The horrid part of the vest is that it tapers at the waist and then flares out again. It looks like a combination of a dress and a bib. It makes me look pregnant.
I call it "birth control blue". Well...at least I don't have to wear a matching fanny pack.
So what does your clinical uniform look like?

OMG...there is a local technical school that still makes their students wear that blue thing...I think it used to be the traditional uniform for first-year students, but most schools gave that up ages ago.

You have my deepest sympathies.

Ours is going to be all-white...could be worse

Scrubz · Mar 20, 2007

I'm in the same boat as some of you. It's the first year of the nursing program at my school, and here's what they have me wearing...

http://www.doveapparel.com/products.asp?product_id=189#

For one shirt and one pants it cost me about $120. Yeah, it's insane. It'd be different if the school covered it, but unfortunatly for students it never works out like that.

They're pretty ugly. I do agree to an extent that it does look somewhat professional, I guess, but it's not what most RN's wear in the field. I don't know why we can't just wear scrubs that match our school's colors. I mean, they'd look better, they'd feel better to the students, and people would start recognizing me as a nurse and not a doctor. I don't know how many times I've been mistaken for doctor. I mean, it was kind of funny at first, but now it's annoying because I have no desire or intention of ever beeing a doctor!! Haha, had to vent a little .

But I have to wear that damn white oxford shirt, white pants, and white shoes. The only pro about the uniforms is that they at least have a decent amount of pockets. But on the other hand, so do most scrubs. I usually try to add some color to my uniform by adding on as much stuff as I can: my stethoscope, a pen, a penlight, and stuff like that, just so it doesn't look like I'm a chef or something.

After I graduate I'm going to burn my white uniforms in celebration that I'll never have to wear anything like that again. Because when I go back to school for my BSN the school I'm going to has their students wearing all blue scrubs, which look good, and reminds most people of what nurses look like.

RN BSN 2009 · Mar 20, 2007

we have forest green, wow i'm happy to have that!

Tweety, BSN, RN · Mar 21, 2007

You're description is priceless. Thanks for the laugh. I must have looked the same way.

Alternator81 · Mar 23, 2007

neat..