Never wear black scrubs.

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Unless you're a private duty nurse and you KNOW you won't be working with Vietnam vets, the segment of the veteran population most likely to have PTSD. That is all.

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Specializes in hospice.

Um.....what? Why do you care what color scrubs I wear, regardless of my patient population? I don't wear black because I have a white dog.

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I'm confused, can you elaborate?

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Black "pajamas" were the Vietcong uniform.

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An excellent heads up! Few people can get that connection. Have you read "Up Country" by Nelson DeMille? Great insights into Vets with PTSD.

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.

Per our staff "dress code" (ugh), our ER docs wear black scrubs. Have yet to see an issue. Unfortunately, you will never find a color that is not a trigger for some segment of the population.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Per our staff "dress code" (ugh), our ER docs wear black scrubs. Have yet to see an issue. Unfortunately, you will never find a color that is not a trigger for some segment of the population.

I know a hospital's ER "dress code" is black scrubs; it is not my local VA though. :no:

I do agree there are some segments of the population that will get "triggered"; I am sure there are some instances where those triggers can be minimized.

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Specializes in Medical-Surgial, Cardiac, Pediatrics.

Our entire nurse staff at the hospital wears black scrubs, mandated by policy. Whoops.

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Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

I'm wearing black tonight. Never had a problem with it.

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Specializes in hospice.

In the hospital system I used to work for, staff wore color coded scrubs, and black was radiology. They/we had no choice of what to wear to work.

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Specializes in ICU.

I wish I could wear black scrub pants, but I have cats. Even if I don't wear them inside (all indoor cats) the hair seems to filter everywhere. I used to walk around with a lint roller, but I gave up and just wear the hair now, ha ha.

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Specializes in LTC, Wounds, Med/Surg, Tele, Triage.

Our trauma facility recently went to black scrubs for all nurses and PT. This was voted upon by staff. Navy Blue lost by about 4 votes and a bunch of nursing running around complaining about the black and they didn't vote! Go figure. I am currently working in the office environment so I wear business attire!

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