If you don't have a uniform...

[adpiRN]

How many scrubs do you own?

I've always had to wear hospital scrubs or a certain color.

I have a job offer for a NICU position in a children's hospital and they have no dress code.

I'm so excited!!!

I'm becoming addicted to buying Disney and holiday scrub tops on eBay!

[Lunah, MSN, RN]

Crud, I didn't do laundry today. Lol. Good thing I have four more sets of royal blue!

[Zelda, RN]

My unit lets us wear tshirts... Those are my jam. Hospital tshirts, of course, but also superhero and Disney princess... I need more cartoon scrubs though!

[amb218, BSN, RN]

Lisa.FNP said:

96 sets assorted and 10 royal blue 10 whites tops and pants not pictured. Funny thing is I haven't worn them in a few years now that I'm in primary care.

WOW!! Seriously jealous of your collection!

I work at a children's hospital and we're allowed to wear any t-shirts with the hospital logo or scrubs, so I have a bunch of t-shirts and brightly colored scrub pants. I do want to buy some matching scrub sets but I love bright colors and think it would be a bit much to wear full lime green LOL.

Yesterday I bought my first patterned scrub top that has the Despicable Me minions on it which I can't wait to wear! I am definitely a shoe addict though...including Danskos! Just bought a new pair which I just had to have, the ones with the electricity/lightning pattern. Love them!

[sashapuppy]

I feel so much better and less guilty now that I know I'm not the only crazy scrubaholic! You guys make my 20 scrub collection look like peanuts! Love you guys!!

[she244]

Hi! I am so jealous of those who can wear anything. I am in a position wear I have to wear a uniform everyday. When I asked if we had dress down Fridays here I was told NO! My Medical Director is old school and said I had to wear a uniform as I was hired as a Nurse and patients needed to separate Nurses from Physicians who wear regular clothes with white scrub jackets. So here I sit in my uniform. I can wear any color or style it just has to be a Nursing uniform. I have a new Medical Director. I may wear something different and see what happens.

[Grasshopper11]

I actually like working in a place where all RN's wear one color and CNA's wear another. This way the staff and the patients know who is who. When I worked in a facility where anybody can wear anything, a patient told me that she was talking to "somebody" about her medical tests and the "somebody" was giving her wrong instructions about her diagnosis. Turns out the "somebody" was a CNA. The patient stated she did not know because everybody looked alike.

[Axgrinder]

roser13 said:

Some of the tops had developed yellow stains of unknown origin, just from hanging in the closet, I guess.

If you cover them with dry cleaning bags when you hang them you can eliminate those mystery spots, and dust.

[ElphabaRN]

Since it is a NICU, I would not recommend wearing black. Given the critical illnesses you deal with, some families may see black as negative. I worked in an intermediate intensive care peds unit working with infants who had had major heart surgery, and we had one uniform rule: no black. No black bottoms, no black prints for tops. Just makes sense. I know black is slimming and all, but no. Just no.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

she244 said:

Hi! I am so jealous of those who can wear anything. I am in a position wear I have to wear a uniform everyday. When I asked if we had dress down Fridays here I was told NO! My Medical Director is old school and said I had to wear a uniform as I was hired as a Nurse and patients needed to separate Nurses from Physicians who wear regular clothes with white scrub jackets. So here I sit in my uniform. I can wear any color or style it just has to be a Nursing uniform. I have a new Medical Director. I may wear something different and see what happens.

What the heck is a nursing uniform if it can be any color or style? Sounds to me as if you can wear pretty much anything you want.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

Grasshopper11 said:

I actually like working in a place where all RN's wear one color and CNA's wear another. This way the staff and the patients know who is who. When I worked in a facility where anybody can wear anything, a patient told me that she was talking to "somebody" about her medical tests and the "somebody" was giving her wrong instructions about her diagnosis. Turns out the "somebody" was a CNA. The patient stated she did not know because everybody looked alike.

Your patient population must have unusually high IQ and attention to detail because I have never worked anywhere that they were able to know who was who from a color scheme, even with the color code in their hands and on the giant flat screen TV on the wall right in front of them.

[LadyFree28, BSN, LPN, RN]

Ruby Vee said:

Your patient population must have unusually high IQ and attention to detail because I have never worked anywhere that they were able to know who was who from a color scheme, even with the color code in their hands and on the giant flat screen TV on the wall right in front of them.

Agree.

I currently have a color coded system and someone will say "the nurse", and I will say, "I am your nurse." Then they will say "the other nurse", when in fact it's a tech or a resident x-ray, or someone else who they thought was nurse but really isn't a nurse...it goes on and on.

It doesn't really work; soon we will be able to wear any color we want!

[MaryDrouillardRN]

I have found that my scrub pants always wear out faster than the tops. Me changing sizes over the years has been a bigger issue than having closet space to put my scrubs.