What color do you wear?

[Lorien_LPN]

Just out of curiousity what color scrubs do nurses wear on your units? I didn't know where else to post this and I am just posting it for fun. In my city nurses mostly wear navy blue all the hospitals standardized the color nurses wear. One hospital however wears maroon/wine. Also nurses have the option to wear all white. Anyone have an opinion of what color best represents nursing as a profession?

[LeggyNurse, ASN]

I work on Women's Surgery floor which is part of mother/baby. This whole floor wears Squad blue/turquoise and can mix and match white and aqua. The other floors wear a royal blue.

[liveyourlife747]

All RNs on the floors hospital wide wear Caribbean blue. Each position has a specific color. Specialty units like l&d, er, and pacu wear hospital issued navy scrubs. I think the uniformity of the hospital is nice!

[FLmed]

Blue! :-)

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

We are the only dept that is not colored coded. I have no idea why. We are also the only med/surg floor in a organization of 5 hospitals that isn't color coded. Everywhere else it's navy blue for RN.

I personally stick to solid colors and a coordinating top underneath. My favorite is a pr of black scrubs with a hot pink tie dyed looking shirt under. I get a lot of compliments on it.

Like someone else said, I no longer buy cheap scrubs. I love Koi and am a huge fan.

[nightengalegoddess]

I find it interesting that in nursing school we were drilled that we are "professionals"....but now we all have to wear dark blue (thus blue-colored workers)....I think we should all go back to white...and for women, dressess and white tights.....and white shoes....then the patients would KNOW when they were dealing with a REAL NURSE.....not a houskeeper, not a tech...etc. I am personally very tired of hearing my patients state "when I talked to the other nurse".....when they really are talking about the unlicensced personel.

[turnforthenurse, MSN, NP]

galaxy blue.

[PediLove2147, BSN, RN]

...and for women, dressess and white tights.....and white shoes....

Yeah, that doesn't work for me. A dress and tights would be so uncomfortable.

Our hospital is slowly moving towards departments being color coded. MRI/CT wears maroon, pharmacy wears hunter green, and (since yesterday) the techs wear teal. Nurses can wear whatever they want and I love it! I wear mostly solids, but I like picking the color and if I want print. I do like knowing who is who in the hallway but I don't think patients have any idea there's a difference. Wear a badge and introduce yourself, your patient will know who the nurse is.

[catladyRN]

navy or white, or a combination of the two. I prefer it this way so I don't have to worry about picking something out.

[peasandonions]

At the hospital I am at, it depends on the position. We wear navy blue (RN), LVNs royal blue, telemetry red, and on and on.

I think this is much easier on everyone so they can easily recognize who is who.

[eatmysoxRN, ASN, RN]

Any colors or prints I want. I usually stick with black/gray/navy though. I don't care too much for prints.