I think that we can all agree that we are getting a different generation of students. This brings many other struggles. The clothing stores are full of crop tops and shredded pants. The students are more willing to show more skin. That is the style.
Currently, our student nurses wear a white top and navy bottom scrub. The RNs on the floor wear Navy tops and bottoms. Although it is the expectation that the students wear an undershirt and that they DO NOT wear a black or lacey bra, they are. Then they are missing clinical because they are sent home. The problem is that this comes back on the instructors to make up the clinical hour time (we must be present on clinical) when we are already short on time.
I see trying to teach a student professionalism, discipline and respect. However, I am realistic in the fact that some of these students quite literally do not see anything wrong with wearing only a white top and allowing their bra to see through. This is how they have been dressing for the past 5ish years.
I am looking for suggestions on other scrub colors. To save us the argument. We have many low-income students, fresh from high school, single parents and second students. We are a diploma program. It would have to be a color that the students could find at a local Walmart.
Maybe I'm just old school. If they come to clinical inappropriately dressed send them home. No makeup days for clinical and they flunk out. This generation needs to know there are consequences to their behavior.
The school I attended had a pewter gray top that we could only purchase from a specific vendor (with the embroidered school logo) BUT we could use whichever brand white pants. The uniform looked very nice, but the students hated the white pants. The school eventually went to black pants. I am personally in the "white is an awful choice for school scrubs" camp. Some nurses like to wear white, some CNAs wear white too, some of the cleaning staff wear white, some other nursing schools have the students wear white. If YOUR students wear white also it can be difficult to identify your students at the clinical site. I have seen some schools use head to toe purple, red, burgundy, green, navy scrubs - its a better idea, makes you all instantly recognizable and more of a "group". (Some schools even provide scrubs as part of the tuition - they are an education expense)
Eldermillennial2002
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Maybe I'm just old school. If they come to clinical inappropriately dressed send them home. No makeup days for clinical and they flunk out. This generation needs to know there are consequences to their behavior.