School uniforms.. ugh..

[Scrubz]

So what does everyone wear for clinicals? We have to wear all white uniforms which are ugly and uncomfortable. The fabric is pretty stiff. Our school's colors are maroon and white, so why not wear maroon scrubs with our school's emblem on the front? But no.. White uniforms. They're from Dove, so if anyone else has to wear these you can relate to my agony.

Here's a picture...

Dove Professional Apparel - Medical Nursing Uniforms and Scrubs | Dove Products

I don't know why we just can't wear scrubs. Our dean wants us to look professional, but we look stupid. I just thought I'd wine about it for a while..

Anyone else have any school uniform horror stories?

[Megsd, BSN, RN]

We wear green scrub pants and a white polo shirt with the school embroidery. We also wear a lab coat with the school patch and the program crescent sewn on. We have to wear our lab coat if we are at the hospital in street clothes (like for orientations or preps) but not necessarily during patient care. A lot of times I wear mine doing care because I like the extra pockets.

I don't feel like too much of a dork in the hospital, but I feel like a dork if I have to wear my uniform on campus. Usually don't have to, but today we had clinical in the morning and skills lab on campus in the afternoon, so I had to go to school in my uniform.

[danh3190]

We do all white with school emblem on left shoulder. Hospital based school.

Don't really mind the color, but we have little or no choice about the style. The men had their choice of two pants, I think the women just one. I just wish we were allowed to choose the pants style so we could find something a little less uncomfortable. The top part of the pants are covered with the smock anyhow. Labcoats are optional.

[marilynmom, LPN, NP]

We just have to wear royal blue scrubs, any style we want-- a lot of us wear the urbane brand.

Urbane Scrubs

I like our uniforms! I work at a hospital as well and wear my school scrubs to work all the time because they are so comfy :)

[OnTheRoad]

We have to wear all white scrubs, but as long as it is white we can get what we want (technically we are supposed to wear cherokees, but so long as it is white they don't care). I wasn't happy learning we had to wear white at first, but I am proud of my whites and I always feel professional and crisp and clean wearing them. The whites also brought some smiles to a few faces at the nursing home I did my first clinicals at.

[ef0zzy]

at my LVN program we have blue scrubs for class and at clinicals *which we havent started yet* we have white unis with a little royal blue on the end of our sleeves *short sleeves* so its not TOO bland hahah

[S.N. Visit, BSN, RN]

White polo shirt, pants, socks & shoes with the ugliest navy blue smock that was designed for kitchen staff. The tag on the inside of the smock was made by "Chef". Many of the area hospital dietary & janitorial services wear the exact uniform too! I think because we look unprofessional, we have been denied/refused many opportunities (IV starts, NG placements, IM injections) in our education. Be thankful if you are lucky enough to have a decent uniform!

[PeachyERNurse, BSN, RN]

We have to wear all white scrubs, but it's up to everyone where they choose to buy their scrubs from. Also, no ugly smock. Yay!

[RoxanRN]

we look like a pack of smurfs when a group of us is walking down the hall!!!!

We were purple 'smurfs!' We had to wear royal purple scrub pants and jacket with a white scrub top (if you are from Kansas, the easiest color I can equate them to is 'K-State purple'). We had a uniform burning party after graduation!

[BVFD 333]

All white scrubs for us, but I do think patient have a esiear time knowing who we are. This is not only from our school but soon a must for clinicals in one of our largest health system.

Remember, everything in life passes...the good and the bad:)

[tddowney]

Navy blue scrubs is our clinical uniform.

Makes us easier for our clinical instructors to spot from a distance, I imagine.

[tddowney]

What's really going to suck is when we do a clinical roation at the hospital I work at and I'll have to go there in dress clothes and a lab jacket to collect info... They're going to ride me so much for that...

I hate those lab coats, and when I'm in the hospital getting Pt assignment for clinical, I wear a pair of slacks--no jeans or cargo pants, etc.--and our nursing school polo shirt that we also use for community clinicals.

On the floor for clinicals, it's navy blue scrubs--we can purchase them where we please.

As long as we look professional, our faculty is pretty relaxed. I'm in an AO program, so many of us have business world experience and know better than to show up looking like we did in, well, our undergrad days....

[CANewRN]

We wear landau maroon scrubs with our school logo on the top or a polo w/logo and maroon scrub pants while in the hospital. For other activities like psych we wear our polo shirts with blue landau scrubs. So the guys and girls are in the same uniform. We are supposed to wear white shoes but sometimes we can get away with grey or regular nikes that are white and some other color. hehe.