L and D Scrubs

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Specializes in L&D, QI, Public Health.

I'm about to start my new L and D position next week and I wanted to get some advice on scrubs. It looks like my unit gets to wear what they want, which is good and bad.

I want to wear something that is appropriate for the unit without wearing Flintstones on my scrubs.

Can anyone recommend a good balance of professionalism and LandD-ism?

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What about scrubs in pastel colors. . . I haven't even started nursing school yet, so I don't know a lot. It seems like you can be appropriate in your color choices without wearing cartoons.

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Specializes in L&D/postpartum.

My favorite combo is black pants with a solid, brightly colored top. I like the tops from Urbane Scrubs that have the different colored trim. For patterned tops that aren't cartoonish, Dickies has some nice stuff.

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Specializes in L&D.

Wish we could wear other colors, but where I work, all the nurses must wear royal blue and/or white scrubs.

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Specializes in OB.

we all wear the same ones, in the same color. Part of our infant security.

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing, CPEN, Pediatrics, Obstetric.

We are lucky as the hospital provides and launders our scrubs. For the women, they wear ceil blue or navy pants, and a white top with foot prints in pink and baby blue. As the lone guy, they thankfully let me wear the all navy scrubs our docs and or team wears. Our uniforms, aside from mine, are all identical for the reason of infant security. It is very nice to be able to throw out our soiled clothes and get new ones, and not worry about bringing home someone's amniotic fluid....Which shouldn't be an issue with universal precautions but we all know how it smetimes goes. I think darker colors are always nice, and black pants go with nearly everything.

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Specializes in Rural Health.

We have scrubs provided by our facility that are specific colors with our logo embroidered on the tops and bottoms. We change at work, people can not under any circumstance wear them home or wear them from home, etc.. They will be fired on the spot. Infant security thing. The parents love it and really do question if someone is in their room that "doesn't belong" especially when looking or dealing with their baby. Plus we had a code pink drill the other day and no one made it far with the babies cause they weren't dressed in our scrubs. It was great.

Sometimes I wished I could wear cute scrubs but it's also great to not wear home my nasties at the end of my shift too :D

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

Our L&D scrubs are provided by the hospital, and are some funky mixed shade between blue, green, and gray.

Mother/baby & nursery gets to wear whatever they want.

I used to have a cute scrub top w/ swaddled babies but I quit wearing it after one night I had it on and admitted a fetal demise mom. That was the end of that.

Most of my shirts are either flowers or hearts. That seems to be pretty safe.

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Specializes in L&D, Antepartum, Postpartum, MB, Special.

Unfortunately I am stuck wearing those horrible ceil blue surgical scrubs:(

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Specializes in L&D,Wound Care, SNC.

I have a large collection of Urbane scrubs, many solid colors, floral and geometirc prints. I have very few "labor and delivery" type scrubs. I will not be able to wear them at my new job though, I'll be wearing green hospital scrubs.

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