Scrub requirements

[JamesCohen]

The hospital I work at has recently color-coated the nurses uniforms. Now, unlike before, each department in the hospital is assigned a different color. Are any other hospitals beginning to do this as well?

[Christen, ANP]

I work at a facility where we are "color-coded." The nurses wear royal blue and white, except for the OR who wears seal blue. L & D and peds can wear the appropriate bottom color with a print top. PCTs can wear white and navy blue, radiology wears black and red and Respiratory wears hunter green.

I like the color coding, I think it looks more professional than everyone wearing a "hodge-podge" of whatever they want, and it's much easier to identify who belongs to what department.

[TF4L10]

I am currently in my last semester of nursing school and the hospital I will be working for when I graduate is now going all one color for nurses (color tbd). Already techs wear royal blue and PT/OT wears navy. Aside from that there doesnt seem to be any color differentiation (besides OR). I understand that in hospitals these days everyone seems to wear scrubs and that can be confusing but everyone also wears large color coded badges that clearly say RN, physician etc. Im not one for printed scrubs but I would like to vary the colors so I'm kinda bummed about this. I think there is a way to look professional without looking the same.

[SC APRN, DNP, APRN, NP]

we have been doing it for years . Also, behind our badge is "RN" (or LVN, RAD, RT, etc) in large letters that hangs below the picture ID. This clearly identifies the wearer's discipline.

As a recent surgical patient I wish the hosptial I went to had large lettering to identify employee credentials, since they took my glasses away I could not read the small print and most staff did not intoduce themselves. I had no idea who anyone was. If they were color coded, nobody told me. Honestly if they had it's the last thing I would be concerned with just before surgery. I think color coding is a nice concept but from a patients point of view keep it simple and LARGE PRINT!!