Skirts, anyone???

sunshelley · May 14, 2005

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I personally think they are goofy looking

cn2007rn · May 14, 2005

While we are on the subject of uniforms...

I am starting clinicals in August, we have to wear a white uniform-pants, top, and jacket w/ all white sneakers/shoes.

My question is, I know it's dumb, but what color underwear do you wear under white pants (have never worn white pants in my entire life!!), is white better, or a skin colored pair?? And yes I know no animal prints!!! :chuckle

Also, why does it seem everyone wears support hose, do these help when you are on your feet all day? Just curious....

Gompers, BSN, RN · May 14, 2005

My question is, I know it's dumb, but what color underwear do you wear under white pants (have never worn white pants in my entire life!!), is white better, or a skin colored pair?? And yes I know no animal prints!!! :chuckle
Also, why does it seem everyone wears support hose, do these help when you are on your feet all day? Just curious....

Wear undergarments in a peach, beige, or brown color - the closer to your skintone the better. This is actually a huge market right now, so it shouldn't be hard finding stuff...

Yes, support hose DO work wonders. As a student, probably the longest clinical day you'll have is 8 hours, but that's long enough to feel the burn. Your legs get tired, your ankles might swell, and after years of abuse you might develop vericose veins. While I love what hose does for my legs, I HATE wearing them because they make me feel so hot and itchy! I've lived to regret being so stubborn though - I have huge vericose veins behind both of my knees. :crying2:

Gennaver, MSN · May 14, 2005

Wear undergarments in a peach, beige, or brown color - the closer to your skintone the better. This is actually a huge market right now, so it shouldn't be hard finding stuff...
Yes, support hose DO work wonders. As a student, probably the longest clinical day you'll have is 8 hours, but that's long enough to feel the burn. Your legs get tired, your ankles might swell, and after years of abuse you might develop vericose veins. While I love what hose does for my legs, I HATE wearing them because they make me feel so hot and itchy! I've lived to regret being so stubborn though - I have huge vericose veins behind both of my knees.

Hello Gompers,

I second this. Over 10 years ago one of the nurses I worked with said she always wore ted hose, and that I should get some too, (matter of fact, I wore plenty of skirts at that time with no problem bending lifting moving, ect.)

However I did not purchase the good hose, I got the cheapy $18. ones and my legs have not let me forget it. Hmph, loaded up with all kinds of spider veins and a couple of potential varicose, they hurt to oh joy.

Gen

student4ever · May 14, 2005

I also wear only skirts all the time for religious reasons. I also think it just looks more professional. The selection in uniform skirts seems very limited though.

I totally understand the desire to wear skirts for religious purposes, and respect anyone who choses to do so. However, even before I started in the clinical aspect of nursing (I'm a Nursing Assistant now while doing my pre-nursing studies) I had an experience that made me question how professional skirts can be when you're working in certain circumstances. I've always worked in the ER, and I think a few others have questioned the practicality of skirts in the ER-well, I was getting info from a patient in his room one day, and the old perv decided that when I bent down to pick up a piece of paper that dropped, he was going to flip my skirt up over my head! He had dementia, so maybe he wasn't really intending to be a perv, but the entire nursing station with all the doctors and ALL the nursing staff (it was shift change and they were giving reports) saw this display through this "gentleman's" wide open door. :rotfl: :rotfl: Funny in retrospect, but I will never wear a skirt in the ER again! Too much opportunity for exposure, intended or not!

Fiona59 · May 14, 2005

My first thought was body mechanics. You never bend over from the waist, but squat to pick things up. Had a nursing instructor beat body mechanics into our heads...:chuckle

I usually wear a dress, never had a back injury and the only incident I had was helping a fellow student transfer a dementia patient into a bath tub when the old gent decided to stick his hand UP my skirt. My fellow student (male) looked at him and said "would you do that to your wife, sister, mother?" Hand quickly removed and he never tried it again. Some behaviours get written off as dementia but sometimes I wonder...

Besides on of my earliest memories is of Diahnn Carol in "Julia". She always looked so crisp and professional. Man did that blast from the '60's just date me:rotfl:

nursejoey05 · May 14, 2005

Does anyone out there wear a skirt (scrubs, of course) to work? I've been considering one ever since I've started wearing white support hose. They make my legs feel good, but with the pants on over top, they're so hot! I saw an RN during clinicals the other day, and she had a crisp, white, a-line wrap skirt and it's gotten my head thinking about a skirt. Also, a nurse in the ED (had mom there this weekend--she's okay) had one one. Looked comfortable.
Any comments???

I am a student, the only one out of a class of 50 that wears a skirt. I wear one because I think it looks professional and traditional. Mine are from White Cross, very well made, stain resistant, and about $25 each. I haven't had any trouble, but I have worn dresses, skirts, and heels all my life. I can do anything in a skirt. Besides, you have to get through my skirt, slip, hose and white underwear to see anything anyway. (And I can certainly make a fool out of myself in pants, too)