skirts

[nightshiftnut]

Just wondering if any of you gals wear skirts to work. If so, do you have any special reasoning behind it? Comfort....religious belief....?

It would be interesting to find out how many online users wear skirts...or dresses.

[Happy2CU]

I've worked with Pentacostal nurses/MAs etc who wore skirts due to religion. Up north I worked with a young woman who would occasionally wear a white skirt with socks and tennis shoes in the summer......she said it was cool and comfortable. Last summer I worked per diem at a local nursing home for some extra $, there was an agency nurse who I believe always wore a skirt.....not sure of her reason for doing so. Personally I'll stick with scrub pants! :-)

[Iam46yearsold]

I always wear scrubs, and that i just for comfort and ease. My comfort and ease that is.

[SDS_RN, RN]

I wear scrubs I personally do not like to wear skirts and or dresses ever!

We do have a nurse that wears skirts r/t her religion.

[FroggyMama]

I have to admit, I think dresses/skirts look strange and inappropriate these days. When I think of all the running, bending, squatting, etc. one does at work, a dress seems WRONG!

I agree, would never wear one. But where I used to live there were a lot of Mennonites who wore skirts (and little mesh bonnet-type thingys), and here there is one pentacostal type nurse who wears skirts all the time. I sure couldn't do it!

[Jdl2002]

There is one girl in my nursing class who for religious reasons always wears skirts. I know of two nurses at my hospital who also always wear skirts. One in her late 40s the other early 60s. I assume both do so for religious reasons, but I have never asked either of them.

[Thornbird]

I wear skirts/dresses in my personal and professional lives. I personally find them comfortable. When hemlines are appropriate there is no modesty issue. I know a few other nurses that do for the same reasons.

[leslie :-D]

i have a few 'scrub' dresses that i made a few yrs ago.

they're 1-piece wraparounds that snap on the inside and outside of waist.

very cute, even more comfortable.

i feel freer, less restricted in a dress.

leslie

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

It depends on mood, and patient population.

I do wear white, and I have found that my geriatric folks respond very well to it, because even when they're pretty dim they know I'm a nurse. Add a skirt to the mix and you have instant respect.

[ready2banurse]

I am replying because I am getting into the nursing field and I only wear skirts. I can do anything in a skirt while being modest, not showing anything I wear a skirt that is mid calf or lower.....I guess you can call it a 'religious purpose'

[RNdit]

I'm Apostolic and wear skirts all the time. It has never impeded my work in any way. As a previous poster mentioned, as long as the hemline and cut are appropriate, there is no interference. I find it a lot more appropriate than the number of young ladies I see at work with significant underwear (or lack thereof) showing each time they lean over.

[Morainey, BSN, RN]

I can't imagine wearing a skirt in a job with as much stooping, bending, crouching, etc. as I do. But I've always been a tomboy and don't really wear skirts outside of work very often anyway :)

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

There is one young woman on my floor who always wears a skirt and keeps her head covered. I am assuming it is religious? But honestly do not know. She's adorable regardless.