White scrubs...you have got to be kidding!

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Specializes in Telemetry, Med-Surg, ED, Psych.

The hospital I work for is considering a dress-code for all staff. RN's and LPN's - White Scrubs / CNA's and Techs - Navy Blue. This is not even funny!:banghead: White scrubs are IMPOSSIBLE to keep clean and I think that its demeaning to say the least. I am all for uniforms so patients and whoever else can identify us, but come on.....get real! Wearing all white is a step-back into the Florence Nightengale era with a lantern and a rose. Either the patient will think I am an old fashioned nurse or I am working at the state hospital disturbed ward.

Help us out lord!

You are so right. White sucks. I, too, like the uniformity because it makes it easy for pt/fam and staff to know who they are talking to, who is providing care. But white ain't the way to go.

Too bad i'm no you adm, eh?:rolleyes:

Specializes in O.R., ED, M/S.

The problem here is that most , if not all, patients sometimes can't distinquish who is their nurse, the CNA or the housekeeper because of differing types of scrubs. It wouldn't be so bad if there was a color code set in place. All nurses wear blue, housekeeping green, RT red. It doesn't matter what color just some uniformity in what each job wears. You ask patients who their nurse is and most will say they don't really know because so many people come and go in their room all day. I do agree that white is a bit archaic and really shouldn't be used, but some other color could be used. I started out so many years ago where we all had to wear white and went to the OR so I could wear something different.

Nonsense. Of course you can keep whites white. I wear mine with pride.

I just finished a clinical examination and the best looking nurse was a woman who was trained in the army and wearing her army-issue whites. I'd buy that uniform if I could find one.

If you can't do it yourself take them to the laundry and pay to have them washed, starched, and pressed. You will look sharp and professional.

white scrubs, I don't like. usually, you can see the ladies undergarments with the white scrubs. It can be good or bad. :D

The hospital I work for is considering a dress-code for all staff. RN's and LPN's - White Scrubs / CNA's and Techs - Navy Blue. This is not even funny!:banghead: White scrubs are IMPOSSIBLE to keep clean and I think that its demeaning to say the least. I am all for uniforms so patients and whoever else can identify us, but come on.....get real! Wearing all white is a step-back into the Florence Nightengale era with a lantern and a rose. Either the patient will think I am an old fashioned nurse or I am working at the state hospital disturbed ward.

Help us out lord!

We have to wear all white in the nursing program that I'm attending. It's intended to psychologically put us in a psychologically submissive mindset. This is a throwback from the old diploma school days when nursing students would be placed in dormitories and be expected to be virgins. Any misbehavior and they would be kicked out of school. They were trained to be very submissive to physicians and administrators.

I'm surprised that your nursing union would let this happen. Many of the ladies in my program dislike the way their underwear show through.

Nonsense. Of course you can keep whites white. I wear mine with pride.

I just finished a clinical examination and the best looking nurse was a woman who was trained in the army and wearing her army-issue whites. I'd buy that uniform if I could find one.

If you can't do it yourself take them to the laundry and pay to have them washed, starched, and pressed. You will look sharp and professional.

Suesquatch, haven't you moved on to informatics and refer to yourself as the geek nurse? Keyboards getting the whites dirty much? (Just kidding)

Anyway, it may be a guy thing. I don't like whites either. I'd be having a problem wearing all whites if I were joining the Navy. Cracker Jack uniforms are not my thing. I didn't know that the uniform made the nurse :chuckle

Yup. But when working the floor I did and do wear whites.

I know no one wants to look like the ice cream man. But face it, most of our population is geri, and they immediately, no matter how demented, know that I'm the nurse.

I remember in junior high slicing my arm open in art class - making a wood cut. My dad came to take me to the ER and, since he worked in foods processing, he was in whites. People thought he was the doctor.

:)

Rather than virginal, white is also the color of cleanliness. And a sloppily dressed nurse is a real put-off to me.

Yup. But when working the floor I did and do wear whites.

I know no one wants to look like the ice cream man. But face it, most of our population is geri, and they immediately, no matter how demented, know that I'm the nurse.

Didn't I see you post somewhere that "nursing sucks"? Hmmm... let's not wear white so that it can suck less.

I think I've seen a Norman Rockwell with a butcher wearing all white.:chuckle I forgot about the ice cream man. :jester:

Many of the overweight nurses that wear all white look like giant marshmallows. It's hilarious, but I usually don't think of this stuff when I'm in the clinical environment because it would be unprofessional.

Wow, been a pleasure chatting with you, ADPIE.

Specializes in midwifery, ophthalmics, general practice.
. This is a throwback from the old diploma school days when nursing students would be placed in dormitories and be expected to be virgins. Any misbehavior and they would be kicked out of school. They were trained to be very submissive to physicians and administrators.

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this happened when??? you obviously never met my grandmother or mother- one trained in the 1920s (and trust me was never submissive in her life) and my trained in the 50's.. and she doesnt have the word submissive in her vocabulary.. and got to more badness while training than I ever did!! and none of ever had to stay in a dormitory.

only nurses I know who had stay in dorms did their training in the Navy!

Specializes in midwifery, ophthalmics, general practice.
Suesquatch, haven't you moved on to informatics and refer to yourself as the geek nurse? Keyboards getting the whites dirty much? (Just kidding)

Anyway, it may be a guy thing. I don't like whites either. I'd be having a problem wearing all whites if I were joining the Navy. Cracker Jack uniforms are not my thing. I didn't know that the uniform made the nurse :chuckle

I wore white uniforms for years.. not that hard to keep clean.. and looked very smart! at least the patients knew who the nurses were..

but then we wore proper uniforms not the sacks everyone seems to wear now!! I've worn the old fashioned cuffs/collars and pinnies..

white is ok...

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