Okay to wear traditional nurse uniform to work?

Hi I don't know if this is a dumb question but would it be prohibited by state if I wanted to wear the traditional nurse outfit to work like the white scrub dress with white stockings? I don't like getting into trouble so I'm currently awaiting my DON's response to this question. However, what are your points of view. I've already done like a self inventory ie: asked myself if 1. Would wearing a dress to work prohibit any functionality? 2. Would wearing a dress to work decrease my ability to administer medication? 3. Would wearing a dress decrease my ability to chart? 4. Would wearing a dress decrees my ability to perform CPR.

All answers point to no so would that mean it's okay???

[Davey Do]

50 minutes ago, NutmeggeRN said:

I wear my pin proudly, everyday since 1983

Wow, cool Nutmegge!

I would sometimes wear my LPN pin, also gotten in 1983, on my white cotton baseball cap. Since most of the nurses back then wore caps, I thought I'd come up with my own version.

Edit: I found a pic of my cap in an old photo. At the time the photo was taken a nurse/friend, who I haven't seen in years, was wearing it. Since I don't have her permission to post her photo online, I cropped it:

 

[NutmeggeRN, BSN]

I wear it to any conference I go to in hopes of running into any alumni from my school.

[Davey Do]

7 minutes ago, NutmeggeRN said:

I wear it to any conference I go to in hopes of running into any alumni from my school.

Ironically, the only classmate from my 1983 LPN program that I've run into was the other male in the class. He got his RN immediately thereafter and was an OR supervisor for a time when I worked at Wrongway.

[amoLucia]

I have pins from my ADN & BSN programs. I also wear my Sigma Theta Tau key.

There was a nsg magazine (RN? Nursing year?) that would run a yearly story featuring photos of various NS pins. I guess I never rec'd the issue with my pin.

[Davey Do]

46 minutes ago, adventure_rn said:

The bigger question is, why the heck would you choose to wear white?

Back in the days when medical professionals wore white, there was something of a status symbol to it.

I remember, as an adolescent, seeing a photograph taken in the early '50's of my high school sweetie's Dad in whites when he was a medical student. There was something respectfully magical about his white clothes and shoes.

As an LPN student, I looked forward to and enjoyed wearing my gray tunic, white trousers, and white shoes. Even though I was then, and am now, something of a slob, I had respect for keeping my shoes and uniforms neat and clean.

I worked in OR in the mid '80's, at a time when only those who worked in surgery or OB wore scrubs. Scrubs were not common and carried a certain delineation.

Scrubs are now ubiquitous, from the front office workers at my PMD to the optometry clerks where I get my glasses.

[Davey Do]

26 minutes ago, amoLucia said:

standard PRISON garb is SCRUBS.

Several years ago, the psych director at Wrongway decreed that the adult patients would have their street clothes kept in storage and would wear mauve-colored hospital-furnished scrubs.

That didn't last long, as the scrubs started disappearing, presumably stolen by discharged patients.

[brandy1017, ASN, RN]

On 1/26/2022 at 4:54 PM, Davey Do said:

...me in my old nurse's outfit?

Looks like you were channeling Corporal Klinger from Mash!  LOL

[amoLucia]

donny - don't know if they still make Oxydol laundry detergent any more. If you find it, use it. You can also add OXY additive. That stuff could clean mold off my condo's siding - POTENT stuff. I remember it good for white laundry.

Uh, I don't understand your reference to atorvastatin. ???

[donnydilaudid]

38 minutes ago, amoLucia said:

donny - don't know if they still make Oxydol laundry detergent any more. If you find it, use it. You can also add OXY additive. That stuff could clean mold off my condo's siding - POTENT stuff. I remember it good for white laundry.

Uh, I don't understand your reference to atorvastatin. ???

Very good to know - hadn't heard of Oyxdol before.  I'll look for it.  Thank you! ? Oh, and re: the atorvastatin reference, so many of our folks were on it at that facility and it came in a white oblong tablet formulation....a few of the nurses I worked with would tease me occasionally that I resembled one of the pills when I'd come to work wearing all white.

[hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I]

I don't think white would be practical but Uniform Advantage sells a Uniform dress in a bunch of colors for under 30 bucks.

[amoLucia]

donny - I understand the atorvastatin now. TY