Nursing School Uniforms And Their Fate After School

[RunBabyRN]

A nurse asked me last night about my plans for my white Danskos after school, and I hadn't really thought about it. I'm kinda thinking I may have an artist friend of mine ink them up for me, but I wanted to hear what you guys have done or plan to do as well! My shirts I likely won't wear again (since the patches have been there awhile now), but my pants I will (ours are blue, not white). I don't want to wear white shoes after school, but I don't want to waste nice shoes! One nurse said a friend of hers planned to have them dyed, but she never heard how they turned out or how much it cost.

[saraCOS]

I had to Google "pinafore" because I didn't know what it was.

Oh goodness. I have no complaints about my little white scrubs and cheap polo shirts. Thank goodness times have changed.

[jewel53]

Upon graduation from nursing school in 1974 (ancient, I know) I was going to (literally) set fire to all six of my student uniforms. My mother would not permit it. She required that I retain at least one of them for posterity. Frankly, I am very happy my mother made me do that. On occasion, I pull my student uniform out of moth balls and reminisce regarding events that took place while in nursing school. I would certainly advise no one destroy all student uniforms as the result of a spur of the moment decision. It is likely that you will regret not having the opportunity to pull one of them out and look at it in the future.

[NicuGal, MSN, RN]

We strung ours up on a clothes line in front of our school lol

[ilikesharpthings]

My husband worked for UPS when I was in school and would occasionally bring home in his pockets these awful black waxy crayon things that he would mark boxes with. So the night before my very last clinical day I threw my school scrubs in the washer and dryer with some of my husbands clothes and they came out totally stained with black marks everywhere! So I wore the ICU scrubs my last day of clinical and joked that I had ceremoniously destroyed my school scrubs a day too soon!!

[vintagemother, BSN, CNA, LVN, RN]

I donated my old scrubs to other students.

I kept my white danskos. I'll wear them when I return to school for my bridge program. They feel so comfy! Like walking on air! My kid tells me they don't look cool but I sometimes wear them around the house.

[lilredrunner]

Never wear them again. Probably donate them to a local thrift store or first year students.

Or have a bonfire. Because I want that satisfaction, can't lie.

[aeris99]

I brought my old work scrubs to the local animal shelter. The vet techs always seem to need a change :)

[Hbrmom81]

Can you find someone maybe a working mom that is just starting and bless her with them?? Ask the 1st semester teachers if they have ideas of someone who may need it?

[Stephalump]

Can you find someone maybe a working mom that is just starting and bless her with them?? Ask the 1st semester teachers if they have ideas of someone who may need it?

I know our local woman's shelter always needs scrubs. When they meet women at the hospital (especially rape victims) they provide them with scrubs since their clothes are taken.

Not sure if that's common practice everywhere.

Mine are worthless. We wear white and I only buy one set per semester, and they're pretty awful by the time the semester is over!

[WoundedBird]

I'm shadow boxing one of my tops and other mementos I gather over the course of my program. All bottoms and the remaining tops will be given to the outreach resell program.