Nursing Uniform Policy

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What if your employer decided that all RNs must wear navy scrubs? No white. No patterns. Just navy blue. LPNs must wear royal blue and all techs wear burgundy. What is your opinion?

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.
What if your employer decided that all RNs must wear navy scrubs? No white. No patterns. Just navy blue. LPNs must wear royal blue and all techs wear burgundy. What is your opinion?

Hi, rustysflygirl,

I would comply.

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Specializes in Emergency.

Depends- did they come to staff for input or not. Do they make lots of other directives of staff without input. If so it sounds like a not so nurse or staff friendly place to work and personally I would look to work elsewhere. If they did get staff input where were you when they did? Yeah while its not white- it could be worse think hot pink. On the good side dark colors hide stains better, I work ED so I think activated charcoal, it never comes out.

Rj :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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Specializes in Cardiac.

Our hospital is like that. Nurses (RN and LPN) wear green, techs wear port, lab & radiology wear blue, etc... Our hospital logo is embroidered on the tops. They are provided to us for free, and I get 3 new pair every year on my anniversary. I think it's fine. We also get a matching jacket every year. We were angry for like a minute, and then we got over it. I mean, free scrubs!

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I agree, I would comply. I think there are plenty of other things to be in arms about. Besides, who wouldn't like free work clothes??

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Specializes in ER, NICU, NSY and some other stuff.

Cardiac, that is cool that at least your facility provides the scrubs. I know of 2 facilities in my area that have mandated color and also embroidery and they supply nothing. One of them also demands that you have the Childrens hospital logo embroidered onto your jacket, so that makes it tough to wear elsewhere.

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I'm fine with it as long as they are providing the scrubs. It would annoy me if they were telling me what to buy.

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Specializes in OB, ortho/neuro, home care, office.

And yes colored coded. Wine for Nurses, Ceil for techs and aides, Dk Blue for housekeeping, green for surgery (they have theirs supplied)

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Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

As long as it wasn't all white I would comply and save your energy and impact for the battles that really matter.

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What if your employer decided that all RNs must wear navy scrubs? No white. No patterns. Just navy blue. LPNs must wear royal blue and all techs wear burgundy. What is your opinion?

I wouldn't mind. I think navy scrubs look more professional than most other alternatives. I am not usually one that takes well to being told how to dress, but all-navy would be acceptable if the hospital decided it just could not continue to run without color-coding the staff. I still think color-coding staff is a ridiculous idea. Why don't they color-code the people at the bank, so I will know who handles loans and who handles christmas club accounts?

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Specializes in Cardiac.
I still think color-coding staff is a ridiculous idea. Why don't they color-code the people at the bank, so I will know who handles loans and who handles christmas club accounts?

That's pretty funny :rotfl:

The odd thing about my hospital is that although we are color-coded (for the pts safety-ya know) the patients don't know what the colors mean. So with every pt I have to explain the whole color coding concept. They should inclued a bookmark with descriptions of the coler and the duties with the admission paperwork. Then the pts can refer back to the bookmark and respond with questions appropriately! :uhoh3:

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There are a lot of threads on here re: color coding. My opinion has (and always will be)....

#1 Pts don't know the difference. Anyone (housekeeping, dietary, PT, OT, CNA, RN, LPN, lab.....)who enters a pt room is "my nurse".

#2 It is my opinion that color coding is just another way of robot-izing all of us.

I comply simply because I have to bring in that ever so important paycheck. It would be very cool if the hosp that I work in would provide scrubs. I would have more of a problem wearing a scrub that was embroidered w/ hosp logo that I had to pay for. That'd just stink but if I loved my job enough, I would do it. I just make darn sure that I kept all receipts and claim on my taxes. Now am having to buy a new color. Going from navy blue to purple. Now instead of looking like a blueberry, I can go into work being a grape. Now if I was in a bad mood, would that make me sour grapes????:roll :roll :roll :roll

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