scrubs or business casual

Katie71275 · Apr 23, 2015

I usually wear scrubs.

RatherBHiking, BSN, RN · Apr 23, 2015

I truly have mixed feelings about this. Should we dress more as a nurse and wear scrubs or should we dress as part of an educational team and wear what the teachers do? Which would give us the most respect in the school system? Which looks most professional??

I've worn both. No matter what I wear I wonder if I should be wearing the opposite... I'm curious to see what others think! We're split about 50/50 in our district. I've been wearing scrubs for the past few years but I'm getting tired of them. We aren't allowed to wear heels or open toed shoes as a nurse but the rest is up to us.

bergren · Apr 23, 2015

The National Association of School Nurses did a poll a few years ago and only 25% of school nurses wear scrubs.

Farawyn · Apr 23, 2015

Scrubs!

I was new this year and no one knew who the hell I was in "real" clothes. I'm a parent in the school, so what if they thought I was there doing parent-y things? Once I wore scrubs, people started talking to me.

I've worn scrubs 23 years. Old dog, new tricks, yadda yadda.

PLUS, I really have no fashion sense.

SnowyJ, RN · Apr 23, 2015

Both. Depends on my mood.

100kids, BSN, RN · Apr 23, 2015

Business casual. I have a lot of different responsibilities in my school so scrubs never seemed appropriate.

kidzcare · Apr 23, 2015

I generally wear scrubs. My first full year I wore business casual and I liked it. But I feel like my unstyled hair really complements the scrubs better :)

abc123RN · Apr 23, 2015

Scrubs most of the time. We (all staff) get to wear jeans on Fridays. But I am thinking I might be making a change for next year, getting tired of scrubs everyday.

OldDude · Apr 23, 2015

Well, since I keep my finger on the pulse of fashion trending I can throw in here. I have 5 red, long sleeve, T-shirts with my name and title monogrammed on them. I wear the same identical shirt every day. I do, however, cycle through a group of different colored cargo pants in addition to jeans for Fridays and other jean days. Continuity and variety in the same package!! I'm thinking about going to identical cargo pants next year :yes:

Farawyn · Apr 23, 2015

Well, since I keep my finger on the pulse of fashion trending I can throw in here. I have 5 red, long sleeve, T-shirts with my name and title monogrammed on them. I wear the same identical shirt every day. I do, however, cycle through a group of different colored cargo pants in addition to jeans for Fridays and other jean days. Continuity and variety in the same package!! I'm thinking about going to identical cargo pants next year

Red to mask all the nosebleeds?

SnugglePuggle, MSN, RN · Apr 23, 2015

I do both scrubs and business casual. I have a small collection of kid-friendly scrubs from my hospital days so I figure I may as well make use of them.