Scrubs!!

Care&Joy · Oct 11, 2006

BDU stands for Battle Dress Uniform. Basically, we're talking qbout the camaflouge style uniforms you see on the Marines, actually anyone in a deployment status will wear a BDU . The new Navy BDU is going to be a blue/grey/light grey pattern. They are much easier to care for than are standard uniforms.
LT Dan

ACKKK!! Khakis can be dreary to a pt's eye, that's for sure! I think the BDU's you just described will be at least a little easier on the eyes because of the blue in them. How many of you are surprised when places actually require grey or khaki for workplaces amongst those who are sick, when it's proven that certain colors affect a person's emotions -especially critical pt's who can become more emotionally disturbed by their environment (sounds, lights, colors...). Such as soft blues & greens proven to be soothing, while white, bland, or other neutral colors (& bright reds & yellows, etc) can be disturbing &/or depressing to those who are sick. I'm just curious as to what you guys think about that? It would be an interesting topic! Especially since this is why many hospitals & health care centers are beginning to paint those sterile white walls w/ soft, soothing colors due to these same studies. :bowingpur

NavyCheerGirl · Oct 11, 2006

ACKKK!! Khakis can be dreary to a pt's eye, that's for sure! I think the BDU's you just described will be at least a little easier on the eyes because of the blue in them. How many of you are surprised when places actually require grey or khaki for workplaces amongst those who are sick, when it's proven that certain colors affect a person's emotions -especially critical pt's who can become more emotionally disturbed by their environment (sounds, lights, colors...). Such as soft blues & greens proven to be soothing, while white, bland, or other neutral colors (& bright reds & yellows, etc) can be disturbing &/or depressing to those who are sick. I'm just curious as to what you guys think about that? It would be an interesting topic! Especially since this is why many hospitals & health care centers are beginning to paint those sterile white walls w/ soft, soothing colors due to these same studies. :bowingpur

I agree, Care&Joy. I'm more of a pink girl, however, and I'm not planning on maternity (I'm thinking about surgical, but I want to do post med/surg, triage, ER, ICU, cardiac, anything with bones, muscles- something that will get me very close to my patients). We all might as well dress in camo if we have to wear gray or khaki (khaki is nice for going out, but to dress like that everyday is blah). I don't want to walk into a patient who's feeling distressed or sad and wear the wrong color and make their day worse. If I were running a hospital I'd make the scrubs color coded yet coordinate it to to the intensity of the situation (ie I probably would have a light blue in a surgical room or ER or ICU would be a light red). As for the rooms, I would not have white white white! My grandfather (civilian) is going in for a surgery on Friday and once he's out he'll be in a white hospital gown in a white room and perhaps with another patient in that situation. I just wish, too, that, even though white is nice, white is reduced, including whatever makes a patient jumpy. I've never seen khaki scrubs, but I don't think that looks good from trying to imagine it. The Navy should take this into consideration- we'd use the help of the psychologists- if the hospitals want to be of excellent service. We're not trying to make fashion statements, just help our patients recover!

navynurse06 · Oct 12, 2006

But NavyCheerGirl....its not about trying to make fashion statment esp not in the any branch. Wearing your uniforms are about professionalism etc. Don't forget we are talking about the military. And sorry no pink in any of the navy uniforms! We do have a pink shade of scrubs on l/d and nicu.