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hello everyone,

do you guys see nurses who wear skirts to work treated differently.

also since I'm going to start nursing school in the fall, will there be any reason why there would be an issue if i wear a skirt instead of pants as a uniform?

OP did you ever find out from the school you're hoping to attend in the Fall whether you'd be allowed to wear a skirt as part of your clinical uniform?

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You do realize that the suffragette wore skirts?

How does that old quote go?

"Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, only in high heels, a dress and backwards."

As for wearing whites be it a skirt or dresses some how demeans or sets back nurses or women in general. Oh please! Should like to point out that some of the most powerful men in two churches run around in "skirts", ok, robes as if that should make any difference. It is still yards of fabric swishing about their legs, and do we know what they have on underneath?

Should also like to point out that nursing sisters (nuns they are not for those religous women are cloistered), did patient care of the most strenous sort in garb that would make many of us faint just thinking about it.

Nurses have provided care in every fashion from Victorian full skirts to the 1960's mini skirt fashion (try jumping onto a bed for a code wearing one of those), and while neither extreme is proper for today's profession, there is nothing wrong, odd, sinister, or "backwards" about a well fitting and properly worn dress or skirt whilst on duty.

Problem is that once nurses stopped wearing whites, many great uniform makers either switched production to other things, or at least put more effort into the "scubs" part of their line, with whites taking second place. Even student nurse uniform makers for the most part gave up as schools took more of their student's out of uniforms and into scrubs. Today the most widely seen student uniform is the white bibed blue job, worn by it seems mostly every school, and at least around my area, nursing assistants, housekeepers, maids, nannies and other females engaged in domestic service.

As for wandering hands, just what about scrubs in particular is supposed to deter this? If anything else well fitted dresses or skirts present a smooth line and leave less to a perv's mind than "booty hugging" scrubs. You want more protection? Throw on a Playtex girdle:D

Google or try to find an older Barco, White Swan or other uniform catalog. As recently as the 1980's there was plenty of offerings of affordable, well made white skirts and dresses for uniforms at a very good price. They gave good service and stood up to hot water, Tide, and bleach! *LOL*

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Skirts to work as a nurse? Puh-leeze. Make sure to just throw away any and all advancement women have made away at the main entrance when you decide to walk into work in a skirt.

Puh-leeze.

Part of the advancement that women have made is having the right to choose what they want to wear, not to have to wear what someone else deems appropriate.

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And another day done in a dress and hose. Nobody even tried to put a hand up my skirt and they all knew I was a nurse, no "are you the lab tech, PT, or NA" asked once.

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And another day done in a dress and hose. Nobody even tried to put a hand up my skirt and they all knew I was a nurse, no "are you the lab tech, PT, or NA" asked once.

Yeah, well, that's 'cause you're just a tool of the patriarchy. Or something. ;)

The young nurses on the floor got really mad one day. I was in a white scrub dress, been there all of a week, and a gentleman walked in and said, "You're obviously the nurse on this floor."

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You want to know the "power" and allure of whites and a cap still have?

This week as Saint Vincent's Hospital Manhattan closed it's ER and thus for good after 160 years of service, a nurse showed up for her final shift of duty wearing her St. Vinny's cap, whites and her school cape. Well am here to tell you one would have thought Mother Seton had appeared on the scene.

As local media was already swarming around the place for the closing "event", everyone went over to interview this young nurse and hear her "story". Sat watching in amazement as one local news reporter after another referred to "what you are seeing is a Saint Vincent's nurse in their traditional garb...."

When interviewed the nurse stated she felt it was good and necessary to honor the tradition of Saint Vincent's nurses (those that attended it's schools and worked in SV hospitals", by coming to duty and paying witness to the end of a long and proud history.

And that is what a cap is about. Not keeping one down, but something that one worked darn hard to earn the right to wear, and out of respect for now being apart of something grander and much larger than oneself.

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And that is what a cap is about. Not keeping one down, but something that one worked darn hard to earn the right to wear, and out of respect for now being apart of something grander and much larger than oneself.

That's certainly how I feel about mine. I've been a ardent feminist my entire adult life (from back in the good ol' days of feminism), but have never considered the cap to be demeaning, insulting, infantilizing, or any of the other concepts I hear from so many of the younger nurses. We definitely do not, as a group, get any more respect or consideration from our professional colleagues or the public since we abandoned the traditional professional attire.

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Part of the advancement that women have made is having the right to choose what they want to wear, not to have to wear what someone else deems appropriate.

This is an excellent and succinct way of putting the whole thing. Yes, individual businesses can and do set dress codes, but women aren't all forced to wear skirts to work, school, church, etc. anymore. So rather than insulting those who today choose to go against the general flow of things, @**new**, why not allow them the choice that many women fought for decades ago? As long as one can work effectively and efficiently in one's chosen garb, I don't see the issue. I haven't heard anyone advocating going back to the days of whalebone stays and multiple petticoats!

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. I haven't heard anyone advocating going back to the days of whalebone stays and multiple petticoats!

Hell, it's the only way I'll ever have a waist line again!:eek:

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I wore a cute knee length dress to work 8 times, on the 8th time I felt a hand go up my legs, that was the last time I wore a skirt....Dirty old men....

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OP did you ever find out from the school you're hoping to attend in the Fall whether you'd be allowed to wear a skirt as part of your clinical uniform?

I'll ask, but I'm pretty sure they will let me.

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I'll ask, but I'm pretty sure they will let me.

I'd find out for sure. I know there wasn't a skirt option in our clinical uniform.

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