skirts to work

What does your school dictate? I've had dress codes in school and if someone wore a dress or a color besides white they were automatically. Sent home from clinicals or the classroom. We even had to wear a uniform in class,no outside clothes.

Schools can only "dictate" so much. If there is a faith-based reason for wearing skirts, it must be honored.

Schools can only "dictate" so much. If there is a faith-based reason for wearing skirts, it must be honored.

Agreed, that doesn't seem to be the case in this instance though.

Schools can only "dictate" so much. If there is a faith-based reason for wearing skirts, it must be honored.

you might find that in the OR that skirts might not be allowed

Agreed, that doesn't seem to be the case in this instance though.

Possibly, the OP never said.

you might find that in the OR that skirts might not be allowed

Why? I wouldn't think it would make any difference.

Why? I wouldn't think it would make any difference.

AAORN has frowned upon OR dresses because "stuff" (skin debris, bacteria, etc) could be disloged as a woman walked and become airborne. How this was or if measured that is anyone's guess.

Solution to the "problem" was to require nurses wearing dresses or skirts to wear heavy hose, which one assumes contained the "filth".

Be this as it may, many current OR and L&D nurses report either they themselves still wear dresses or it is at least allowed. Some doctors for religous reasons do not wear pants, even into the OR, hence dresses or skirts.

Zoom over to the Specialty-OR Nurses section, there are more than one thread on this matter, and some of the comments are a riot.

Skirts limit your range of motion when providing patient care. If you can't quickly easily, and modestly get down on the floor to administer CPR, lift a patient

I always wear a skirt, and if a patient required CPR I would not care if someone could see my panties

I can do patient care easily although my role requires minimal amounts except for special cases. LOL

AAORN has frowned upon OR dresses because "stuff" (skin debris, bacteria, etc) could be disloged as a woman walked and become airborne. How this was or if measured that is anyone's guess.

Solution to the "problem" was to require nurses wearing dresses or skirts to wear heavy hose, which one assumes contained the "filth".

Be this as it may, many current OR and L&D nurses report either they themselves still wear dresses or it is at least allowed. Some doctors for religous reasons do not wear pants, even into the OR, hence dresses or skirts.

Zoom over to the Specialty-OR Nurses section, there are more than one thread on this matter, and some of the comments are a riot.

Interesting. Thanks for the reply.

you might find that in the OR that skirts might not be allowed

We have an old dress hanging by our scrubs, never seen anyone wear it but if they want to they can. Lots of Penticostals around here, scrub skirts in all color depts here.

Speaking of "stuff" coming out from under dresses, we used to have a doc that didn't wear undies, sat during her procedures and wanted to you kinda lift her gown when she sat down so she could feel the coolness of the chair...yuck