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I find that the ear piece is the biggest problem. Only very small ones allow me to hear well. The nice cushhy rubber ones block my ears. As for length if you go with a less expensive dual tube (Sprague-Rapport) type you should be able to get better sound with the shortest length. Remember if you should buy the 27 inch length and you can't hear well the tubes can be cut shorter with this style. Of course the longer style does give you more distance from the patient and sometimes this is an advantage. Good luck!

This year the dress code went to any color scrubs. The 90's nurses were teal/white .The 80's were all white and before that you got to wear the cap too with the all white. I find the scrubs of the last few years to be extremely comfortable. Most of the patients comments are favorable. Occasionally one say nurses should wear white. I work in a hospital in adult and geriatric areas.

Reading all these posts reveals one thing about the people in this profession. It is truely a thinking group! I have also been concerned about the low enrollment into nursing schools. Speaking with friends of my children who are currently in college I would say that the money is the biggest factor to not choose nursing. The kids just want bigggg bucks! I have a son in engineering and he earned $18 an hour as a coop student still in college. Interestingly enough, his university last year did survey their teaching costs and the result was that the 2 most expensive courses to teach were engineering and nursing. As a result the university raised the cost of those two programs by placing semester surcharges on them. I don't think the new GNs will be getting the starting rate that the new engineers will get, even though their educations cost the same. The young people who are in nursing seem to be there because the are really going to love the work. Those I know have been working as aides first and just really admire the nurses they work under and seem to really want this. But alot of high school students have really not had an experience any where and they look up salaries on the internet and pick one with a high earning potential and just go for it.