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 think it looks clean and professional, myself, although I couldn't pull it off, I don't think.
I know on my unit a nurse (who always wore regular scrubs) came to work in a white dress. Everyone was snickering about it and someone commented "Check out Florence Nightingale." So whether it would be supported or not in general... I don't know.
We have a nurse in one of our ICU's that wears a skirt/nursing dress all the time. We wear ceil blue so she found one in our color and wears it all the time. I don't see why it would be a problem if you were more comfortable.
What has happened in our society that a modest, old fashioned nursing uniform might be questioned as inappropriate? Have we gone that far down the tubes?
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.
We guys are having some fun with this thread, but I have to say, a crisp, white dress does look very nurselike and professional.
I'm one of those people with a heavy lower body - dresses look better but I'm making do with all-black scrub pants.[/quote']
At one of the hospitals near me, I saw some nurses wearing all black scrubs (top and pants), and others wore dark purple scrubs with black long sleeves under. It looked very classy. (As classy as scrubs can be, at least!)
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I think it looks clean and professional, myself, although I couldn't pull it off, I don't think.
I know on my unit a nurse (who always wore regular scrubs) came to work in a white dress. Everyone was snickering about it and someone commented "Check out Florence Nightingale." So whether it would be supported or not in general... I don't know.