I was perusing allheart.com looking at scrubs and they come in such a wide variety of colors! I was amazed because it seems whenever I'm at a hospital everyone is wearing the same boring blue.
What about it ladies and gents-- are you required to wear a certain brand and color at your jobs? I'd love to learn which hospitals (if any) let you pick your own fun colors (like apple green and lilac!).
What kind of scrubs did all you nurses wear to work today???
Regarding the DMC, when I was last there (1 year ago), it was only Harper Hospital (and Hutzel, I think) where the RN's had to wear navy. It was a change based on a survey that was done asking patients their opinions. Patients complained that they never knew who the nurses were (vs. techs, PT RT, houskeeping, etc.). The patients opted for first choice white. Harper opted for Navy and they switched to having to wear a large "RN" dangle from their badges.
At some of the other hospitals, various departments are required to wear certain colors.
For instance at Detroit Receiving ER, they also wore navy. RT's at DRH wore black. Ancillay staff (housekeeping) wore burgundy, as did the unit clerks lab coats. All surgical units (including burns) wore hospital issue seafoam green.
after a few extended hospital stays i kinda liked the mandatory colors for RNs and aids. it was easier for me to figure out who was who, and who could do what for me. i think it was better than having people walking around with 52,345 different colors on.
Is there any restriction on scrubs at Henry Ford Wyandotte? From what I see everyone wears anything. I like not having to wear the same color everyday. Thanks!
Wyandotte is part of Henry Ford, but you can wear whatever you want there. They have no specific dress code. I do miss it some days since I transferred to HFH.
I work at Detroit Receiving in Psych and we can wear whatever we want...the only RN's that have mandated colors at Receiving as of now, as someone mentioned before are the ER nurses who wear navy blue. The nurses on Burn ICU and in OR wore surgical scrubs for infection control purposes.
Where I work everyone in color coded. RN=ceil blue and white, LPN=royal blue, NCA=burgandy, Housekeeping=hunter green, RT=grey, and unit clerks=tan and black, even lab has their own color (red and black). Being a newer employee I like it to because I know who I am talking to and who the other RNs are if I need to ask a question.
Specializes in Emergency, Critical Care (CEN, CCRN).
Beaumont just re-standardized their scrub coding a few months ago. Now, all RNs wear ciel blue, excepting OR and L&D where everyone wears hospital-issued surgical green. Licensed patient care personnel (respiratory, radiology, PT/OT, etc) are in royal blue, unlicensed patient care (nurse aides/techs) are in hunter green, non-patient care (clerks, transporters, etc) are in burgundy, and students, of course, are in white. Volunteers wear scarlet jackets or polo shirts over street clothes, and vendors wear butter yellow scrub tops over street clothes.
It's certainly easier for us to be able to tell who's who at a glance, and I've had more than a few patients and family members say that it makes their lives easier knowing who plays what role in the care team. (If nothing else, it stops them bugging the RTs and NAs for diet changes and pain meds...!)
At Karmanos, they let us wear whatever color we want, but the rest of the DMC facilities have to wear specific colors (RNs = navy, PCAs = burgundy, etc.)
At the DMC Surgery Hospital we were whatever we want, and at RIM (at least the floors I have picked up random shifts on) They never had a problem with me wearing my normal random scrubs.
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Regarding the DMC, when I was last there (1 year ago), it was only Harper Hospital (and Hutzel, I think) where the RN's had to wear navy. It was a change based on a survey that was done asking patients their opinions. Patients complained that they never knew who the nurses were (vs. techs, PT RT, houskeeping, etc.). The patients opted for first choice white. Harper opted for Navy and they switched to having to wear a large "RN" dangle from their badges.
At some of the other hospitals, various departments are required to wear certain colors.
For instance at Detroit Receiving ER, they also wore navy. RT's at DRH wore black. Ancillay staff (housekeeping) wore burgundy, as did the unit clerks lab coats. All surgical units (including burns) wore hospital issue seafoam green.