Scrubs - what do you wear?

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Alright, it's laundry time in my house and all of my scrubs are gathered together. I'm realizing that I have at least 4 butterfly scrub tops and barely any plain solid tops. I'm a bubbly person and love it when my scrubs bring a smile to a patient's face (I'm in psych, so that's not always easy) and I was just wondering about what everyone else wears. Sometimes when I'm down to the last pair of scrubs, I'll wear a set of hospital issued scrubs, but I think it can sometimes remind patients that I'm a person too, not just a medication dispenser with a set of questions to ask and notes to chart.

Any other birds of a feather out there?

Specializes in Med Surg/Tele/ER.

I have Urbane & Dickies, but wear hospital issued most of the time. I am not a print person, but I think they are great if you work peds. Socks....any kind just as long as you have some on! Oh, and my hospital issues are always strached & ironed! My pet peeve.... wrinkled scrubs or the kind with that big band thing around the ankle!

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Specializes in LTC.
I don't care how long your socks are...just as long as you are wearing them.

That is a huge peeve of mine.

Had a coworker who would wear clogs and no socks. I think that's gross, but hey, who am I?

I like my scrubs fitted. I'm not trying to be a fashion plate, but I don't feel good wearing boxy scrubs. I think they look sloppy... or they look sloppy on me.

I like mine fitted too. I'm short so baggy scrubs make me look big.

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Specializes in Intermediate care.

Our hospital is all uniform.

RN's are Navy Blue, CNA/PCT are Khaki, RT is hunter green etc.

So i wear only navy blue. All Cherokee pants and Greys Anatomy navy blue top. With Navy blue Dansko shoes. :D Same thing everyday.

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Specializes in ltc, rehab, home health.

When we were able to wear whatever we wanted I wore printed tops and jackets with pants that had a color in it to match. Now we have to wear ALL white. Sucks!!!

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Specializes in L&D/Maternity nursing.

my med/surg job, I am able to wear my own. I am not a huge fan of print scrubs, so mine are all solids. I have some same color sets, and others I mix and match colored scrub tops with black or white scrub bottoms.

my L&D job, I wear hospital issued scrubs.

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I like the urbane scrubs the best. I will either do the all solid color or mix and match my bottoms with the trim on the tops. And I have to wear ankle socks. I have weird texture issues, and thick, long socks freak me out. And ewww on the clogs and no socks, thats just gross. I use to do alot of prints when I worked in peds.

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Grey's anatomy hands down. I won't wear anything else. I've got like 10 colored tops and two pairs of black pants. Yes.

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We are going to all-navy-blue for nurses. I was disappointed at first but it will make scrub-buying a lot easier. Guess I will save my other colors in case I ever get a new job.

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Specializes in Subacute/Rehab, Surgical.

I love my Koi pants. Tops I have about 30% of solids and the rest prints. Not super crazy prints, except a few I wear once and a while. I work with the elderly in a LTC facility and my little ladies love the prints I wear. They like the bright flower print tops I have. Everything is green and tan at my work and they are happy to see colors other than green and tan.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Rehab.

My favorite tops are the faux-wrap tops, which flatter my figure. All my pants are Rx gear straight leg unisex pants, which I like SO much better than the low-rise flare pants I see on a lot of women. All but two of my tops are prints...different flower patterns, but none too wild or brightly colored. I too work in LTC and my geriatric patients always compliment my scrubs!

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Specializes in Emergency Nursing.

I rock the scrub shorts.

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Reading this, I think some of you would think I was the biggest unprofessional idiot on earth! :)

I wear print tops only. I work with disabled kids, and they love colorful things! I wear cartoon prints and animal prints...I have mickey mouse, skunks, deer, owls, Hello Kitty, giraffes. I have a few floral and geometric prints that I rarely wear. I cannot STAND to wear solid scrubs. I don't mind how they look on others, but when I worked at the hospital, I had to wear solid khaki scrubs and I was absolutely miserable. Felt like a big bag of potatoes.

As far as socks go, I wear ankle socks only, and all in crazy prints and patterns. Most of the girls I work with wear colorful socks, too. My facility tends to be pretty casual about those things.

Today I'm wearing a pink and purple top with happy little skunks, lavender pants, pink and black zebra print socks with a pair of silver leopard print Alegria mary janes. I swear I'm not a crazy person! :)

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