Q for Navy nurses

[BSNinTX]

Navy nurses,

What do you wear in clinical settings. I know that you have whites, khakis, dress uniforms. What do you wear when you're actually doing patient care, say in med-surg or critical care. Is there a Navy scrub uniform? If so, what's it look like? What insignia, etc. are on it?

I'm converting to Public Health Service, and our uniforms are modified Navy uniforms. But, the closest we have to a clinical uniform is the summer whites without ribbons...not very practical. We can change at the jobsite, but we get downchecked on evals because we are not "wearing the uniform on a daily basis."

[DanznRN, RN]

The answer tp your question depends on where you are stationed. Each facility makes its own rules about what people wear. In general though, Med-Surg wheres their khaki uniforms, ribbons in all, agreed not practical. In the specialty areas like ICU, ER, OR, etc., they wear scrubs. Nothing "official" or fancy just like in a civilian hospital, main thing is to have a name tag and your insignia (collar devices) on your lab coat. That's about it, oh and manager types where their uniform. Hope this answers your question.

LCDR Dan