Our facility is looking to go to white uniforms for RN's because of uniform recognition. Research shows that when test members are shown pictures of people in scrubs, they almost always pick the person in white as the nurse. Currently, we have no restrictions as such; except our ICU's wear blue and OB/OR wears hospital issued. There is a group of us that do NOT WISH to wear all white.
What color do you wear at your facility? I am looking for where you are from, what type of nursing you do, and what the rationale is for what color you wear.
Location: Pittsburgh PA
type of nursing: Progressive Cardiac Care Unit - post ops, step down, telemetry
color of scrubs: maroon
rationale: I wear maroon because that is our floor color :redpinkhe
Thanks in advance for your help. I am attending a focus group committee and would like some data to take that helps our cause.
Specializes in ICU, Med-Surg, Post-op, Same-Day Surgery.
Location: Memphis, TN
Facility: For profit hospital, approx 600 beds
My floor: Medical-Surgical ICU / Cardio-Neuro ICU
The Uniform: ALL nurses (RN, LPN, APN) that are hospital employees wear a combination of ciel blue (light blue) and white. Most people just wear all blue.
The Verdict: At this hospital different professions have different color uniforms (RN blue, UAP green, Food service black bottom/white top, etc). I don't mind because it is easy to dress for work (all scrubs match), and we look more professional since we wear the same colors. In general, though, white stains easily, is hard to clean, and you BETTER be wearing neutral underwear. I'll stick to powder blue, thank ya very much!
Our facility is looking to go to white uniforms for RN's because of uniform recognition. Research shows that when test members are shown pictures of people in scrubs, they almost always pick the person in white as the nurse. Currently, we have no restrictions as such; except our ICU's wear blue and OB/OR wears hospital issued. There is a group of us that do NOT WISH to wear all white.
What color do you wear at your facility? I am looking for where you are from, what type of nursing you do, and what the rationale is for what color you wear.
Location: Pittsburgh PA
type of nursing: Progressive Cardiac Care Unit - post ops, step down, telemetry
color of scrubs: maroon
rationale: I wear maroon because that is our floor color :redpinkhe
Thanks in advance for your help. I am attending a focus group committee and would like some data to take that helps our cause.
Which hospital in Pittsburgh do you work at? I know there are several. I've been looking at the nursing school's through two of the hospitals and was curious for which you worked at.
Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
i wore mandatory white uniforms in the 1970s and early 1980s. i don't look very good in white -- even in those days when i had a single digit dress size. white stains, and there's a very thin line between being ok and having been laundered once too often so that your underwear shows through. i hated it.
the trend these days toward requiring nursies to wear all white is somewhat disturbing. it seems like just another way to subjugate nurses.
As far as recognizing who's who, no one ever could keep track. And for the MDs that say that they help them recognize who the RN is, it was useless, as they still gave orders to the wrong people.
As far as all white, I destroyed more scrubs than ever, because of either stains or ink. Plus, trying to find thick enough fabric that doesn't show through was difficult. The other RN color was black, almost as bad, as it picks up powder, dust, and lint really badly.
As a traveler, I have found that as far as professionalism and respect shown to the nurse staff by management, the hospitals that mandate uniforms/colors are invariably the worst ones to work for, that treat the staff the most dismissively.
I wear short and long sleeved t-shirts of any color with scrub pants. Usually they have the hospital's logo on them, but not always. I work in a pediatric cardiac ICU, so they want us to look welcoming and human instead of like a bunch of drones.
At my hospital and many hospitals in AZ are starting uniforms. My hospital is starting in March 2010. Everybody is going to have a uniform for their positions. RN's will wear solid Navy scrubs. LPN's royal blue scrubs. HUS will be in polo shirts and pants. etc... The only dept. that will be different is the OR/L&D. We will continue to wear the teal hospital provided scrubs and PEDS will will wear fun tops that are approved.
The floor nurses at our hospital wear white with varying degrees of enforcement. In the ICU and ER they all seem to wear the ceil blue. I like the uniforms and haven't had much problem with stains. Just wish the ICU and ER nurses wore white too. I keep talking to the wrong people when I'm down there. Would be nice to know who the nurses are.
Im in SC at my hospital all nurses wear a combo of either wine/white/wine and white. The CNAs/Techs wear carribean blue and white but not all white. All the depts are color coded and the only ones who can wear all white are the nurses. Its supposed to be less confusing to pts/families so they know who their nurse is...LOL@that since they still ask the housekeeper for a pain pill and the tray passers to empty their bedpans....
Cinqly, BSN, RN
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Location: Memphis, TN
Facility: For profit hospital, approx 600 beds
My floor: Medical-Surgical ICU / Cardio-Neuro ICU
The Uniform: ALL nurses (RN, LPN, APN) that are hospital employees wear a combination of ciel blue (light blue) and white. Most people just wear all blue.
The Verdict: At this hospital different professions have different color uniforms (RN blue, UAP green, Food service black bottom/white top, etc). I don't mind because it is easy to dress for work (all scrubs match), and we look more professional since we wear the same colors. In general, though, white stains easily, is hard to clean, and you BETTER be wearing neutral underwear. I'll stick to powder blue, thank ya very much!