Nursing Uniform Policy

[rustysflygirl]

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?

[ouizer]

If the hospital wants me to wear a certain scrub then they can pay for it, otherwise, it's my choice. I don't tell the CEO what color tie he should wear.

[missjennmb]

scrubs are something I'm extremely excited about, lol. I'm a student atm but I've spent the past 13 years as an admin assistant and I HATE having to figure out what to wear from day to day, matching/not matching/dress codes/etc. I am very much looking forward to thinking less about what I wear and more about what I do. Nothing sucked like putting the "perfect" outfit together for work, only to realize at about 8:15am (out of a 8-5 wk day) that it rides up like nobody's business or there's a gap between the beautiful shirt and the beautiful skirt when you sit comfortably at your desk.

Seriously... I would not want to work somewhere that there were not scrubs, and would really like to see a scrub color dress code. Being new on the job, it wouldn't hurt to have a better idea of who is what until I get the hang of everything too.

[Irish Nurse 89]

I dont like white uniform . My idea , all departmant be different color.

I agree with you here. However, my nurse manager feels that all the nurses who work in the ER should wear a white scrub top, in order for our patients to tell us apart from other staff members. At least we are allowed to wear any colored scrub pants that we want....

[ouizer]

Only time I wear white uniform anything is at Halloween. I tell my patients that I am dressed up as a ghost.

Keeping white clean is so hard and if you have well water and there is any iron in it, they turn a pretty rust colored.

[Med Surge 2]

Our hospital color coded us for a while.

Med Surge Nurses: carabian blue

Critical Care: royal blue

Pediatrics: baby blue

ER: Navy

LPN/LVN: teal

It didn't work. First off we float to other units. Second bah; the patients can't tell the difference anyway.

Now we wear whatever color we want but they color code the badge.

Behind the credit card sized badge that has you picture, name, and title is a big card that is the same on both sides with your title.

Nurses get Navy blue badges with a big RN

LPN/LVNs get teal with a big LVN

CNAs get purple

Lab got red badges

Now if we could only get the docs to wear a name badge. They come in OR greens, or greys and I can't recognize them they start writing orders and put the scribble that is there signature at the end.