Nursing Wearing Sandals To Work?????eeeeeeeekkkkk!!!

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I have a problem with this one LPN I work with, she actually wears sandals to work!!!!! I cringe every time I see it. I work for the state of KY and at our facility they don't say anything to her they just say if something happens then it's on her not them. I was always taught you wear leather shoes and your foot was to be completely covered. Any one have any thoughts?:rolleyes:

Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Ewwwwww........the idea of wearing sandals where tender tootsies can get run over by wheelchairs and gurneys, where every body fluid imaginable can be splashed on bare skin......I didn't even wear sandals when I was a manager! YUCK!!

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As I said before I wore thick white socks and what was my options, unemployment. My foot was a swollen balloon, I still have edema.

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.
As I said before I wore thick white socks and what was my options, unemployment. My foot was a swollen balloon, I still have edema.

That's very different from wearing open-toed shoes or sandals without any socks, just for the heck of it. To that I still say, "EWWWWWWWW".

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.
That's very different from wearing open-toed shoes or sandals without any socks, just for the heck of it. To that I still say, "EWWWWWWWW".

That's what i mean, too.

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You said it snowee. I wear crocs higland style from crocs.com I love them I used to have horrible foot pain all the time(broke both my feet at the same time yrs ago). With my crocs my feet never hurt they get tired but do not hurt. We have cans of disinfectant at work and I just spritz and wipe my crocs couldn't do that with my rebocks. Also ran over the back of my ankle with my rebocks on hurts just the same. I run all the time and have never run out of my crocs highlanders either of course they do have that back ankle strap. JMO

It's clogs all the way with me, don't like my feet stuck in a pair of hot sweaty smegma promoting closed shoes. I don't like open toed shoes, in or out of work, don't like to look at peoples' toes, it's a real turn off. But that is just a personal preference.

If my place of work had a problem with clogs I would find another job. If it was my fellow workers who had a problem with my clogs THEY could find another job.

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Did anyone know the OASHA site we could refer to?? Does this also include all of management who may not be doing direct bedside care. How about case managers, etc. who just walk in/out of the rooms and talk only to patients?????

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I'm a Swedish RN specialzed in pediatrics. (I work in with chidren with neurologic diseases at the Universityhospital of Lund.)

Shoewear is an interesting issue. In Sweden most nurses wear sandals att work, or clogs. In the summertime some of us are barefeeted. I guees this is real bad in your eyes. Do you hade rules that say you're not supposed to wear open shoes?

malin

I have a problem with this one LPN I work with, she actually wears sandals to work!!!!! I cringe every time I see it. I work for the state of KY and at our facility they don't say anything to her they just say if something happens then it's on her not them. I was always taught you wear leather shoes and your foot was to be completely covered. Any one have any thoughts?:rolleyes:
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Specializes in NICU.

YIKES!! How stupid can you be. But she's a nurse now? So that gives me hope for finishing nursing school :chuckle If she did it, surely I can, right?! :rolleyes:

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Specializes in 5 yrs OR, ASU Pre-Op 2 yr. ER.

BARE-FOOTED at WORK???? Could you imagine dropping a syringe or a bedpan???? EEEEEK

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Specializes in ICU.

Many hospitals in the Northern Territory and some of our rural hospitals here nurses are allowed to wear sandals but we definitely are not allowed to go to work barefoot. Too many workplace health and safety issues.

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Specializes in ER, Medicine.

How...interesting to say the least.29_1_12.gif I don't understand why anyone would want to go barefooted. I mean it's unprofessional, unhygenic, and unsafe. You can pick up lots of nasty stuff. But I guess nursing is different all over the world. :uhoh21: As far as open toe shoes hospitals don't want to be held liable when an employee steps on something and breaks a toe or gets an infection. And like I said before it is so unprofessional (in my eyes). But it's interesting that Swedish nurses have a choice not to wear shoes...very interesting. 4_12_6.gif

I'm a Swedish RN specialzed in pediatrics. (I work in with chidren with neurologic diseases at the Universityhospital of Lund.)

Shoewear is an interesting issue. In Sweden most nurses wear sandals att work, or clogs. In the summertime some of us are barefeeted. I guees this is real bad in your eyes. Do you hade rules that say you're not supposed to wear open shoes?

malin

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I'm a Swedish RN specialzed in pediatrics. (I work in with chidren with neurologic diseases at the Universityhospital of Lund.)

Shoewear is an interesting issue. In Sweden most nurses wear sandals att work, or clogs. In the summertime some of us are barefeeted. I guees this is real bad in your eyes. Do you hade rules that say you're not supposed to wear open shoes?

malin

Malin, you're not serious about being barefoot at work, are you?

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