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The good news – I was accepted into my nursing BSN program for next semester!
The bad news – we have a required white dress which is as thin as cheap drape, and the hem hits 2 inches above my knee when standing. When sitting or bending, it rides up even higher.
The dress code calls for white hosiery – pantyhose or knee-highs. Knee-highs? !!! If this didn’t come from the manufacturer, I would think it could be something for Halloween! Eek!
Is this a joke? What is the name of your school? This just doesn't seem real...what is their reasoning? I understand why we have to all wear the school color, so we can be easily identified in the hospital...no one wears white anymore and the few people I have seen wear scrubs dress were religious (the sisters that come to visit in one of the Catholic hospitals) and they were not white or that thin and certainly not that short!
my mom showed me pictures of her uniform from when she graduated (in the early 80's) and it looked similar to this, but she had to wear a pinafore apron thing over the dress that looked like a blue and white checkered picnic table, white hose, and a flying nun's cap.
a lady i worked with in NC showed me pictures of her uniform from the late 70's, and hers was by far the ugliest. they had to wear a brown dress with gold colored hose and brown shoes, and her cap looked like a french fry box from mcdonald's.
i whined about having to wear a cap for two years... but it could have been so much worse.
Wow...that's very impractical. How are you supposed to turn/bend over in that?! I'd be paranoid about keeping myself covered the whole time I was wearing it. Of course, my uniform makes me look like an big white jelly bean, so idk which one is worse. At least that uniform is sorta cute, though awfully impractical.
Lena202
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Wow...
I personally would wear a pair of white scub bottoms underneath just to make a point!