I'm short and about as wide as I am tall. Scrub pants look horrible on me (anything looks bad, really, but especially scrub pants). I am getting older and the sloppy scrubs and big tennis shoes just do not fit who I am anymore.
I'm wanting to find a position in a hospital. I currently work at a nursing home and they are very supportive of my nursing dresses/skirts. They encourage it, actually.
I love the nursing home, love the patients, but I need to move on in my career. I want to work in an intensive care unit. Does anyone know if wearing the dresses/skirts/support hose would be permissible in a hospital ICU?
I just wonder if a nurse manager will say it may hinder my participation in a code or something...I still can't do the hat thing, though (but I know of two nurses who do wear hats.)
They had codes when most nurses wore dress or skirt.
I don't see any problem with wanting to wear a traditional uniform. Many pts really like it.
Re: in ICU, the only issue I see with a code couls be CPR. I only mention it because I am.built like you. I find it more comfortable\effective to jump up on the bed and kneel next to the pt. That would be hard for me to do in a skirt. But if you can do CPR in your skirt, which I'd bet money on, then go for it! I can't see any other potential issues.
There's a young RN in our ICU that wears a skirt everyday and nobody ever says anything to her! She looks fine. And professional. I just can't pull off the skirt thing. I felt like I was in a clown suit on my wedding day for god sake.
Dont feel bad. The one day I wore a skirt to work, everyone laughed at me and told me I look ridiculous. My feelings were hurt, but I got over it.
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If I could wear the long, gauzy skirts I favor, I'd do it, especially in the summer when it's 110 degrees in the nursing home. But they are definitely not practical, and I won't wear anything shorter---too uncomfortable, and I'd scare people with the saggy, spider-veined sausages that serve me as legs!
A couple nurses where I work wear skirts and no one says anything to them. I think they look good. And if you can move comfortably in them, I say go for it. In fact, you might get alot of positive comments from your elderly patients wearing a white skirt. I often hear older patients complaining that nurses don't dress like nurses anymore.
There is a nurse in the small town hospital I am having clinical rotation in right now who wears a white skirt or dress uniform every day. Doesn't look out of place at all. If I didn't have to wear hose with a skirt or dress I would consider it myself. It still looks completely professional.
I wore dresses every day until last year (just a comfort thing). The patients generally liked it; when my husband brought my lunch, he'd ask the receptionist where he could find Sara O'Hara... "Who?" "She's wearing a dress." "Ohhh, her!"
I'm one of those people with a heavy lower body - dresses look better, but I'm making do with all-black scrub pants.
Dont feel bad. The one day I wore a skirt to work, everyone laughed at me and told me I look ridiculous. My feelings were hurt, but I got over it.
I've never felt sufficiently motivated to express my Scottish heritage, but we had a night on our unit when everyone was encouraged to wear all white. It was part of a tribute to a couple of co-workers who'd been there since the days when all white was the dress code. One of my coworkers wore her hat, and had some funny stories about her ride up the elevator. Then she persuaded me to wear it when we went out to smoke.
All I can say is that anyone who can do a 12 hr shift in one of those hats is a better woman than I'll ever be.
But there are several nurses at my facility who do wear skirts or dresses, and they have no problems.
Dont feel bad. The one day I wore a skirt to work, everyone laughed at me and told me I look ridiculous. My feelings were hurt, but I got over it.
HEHE what would management do if a man came to work dressed up really nice in a skirt. If they told him to change that would be discrimination! Right? lol It would make for a fun day.
Anyway, I wore a dress/skirt thing when I was pregnant because it was more comfortable with my big belly. It was cute, I thought. And there should be no reason why you can't wear a skirt in ICU.
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They had codes when most nurses wore dress or skirt.