Before I get off on my tangent here, let me say that I know that our uniforms could be worse. I've seen what some other folks have posted on here. Our uniforms consist of navy blue scrub pants with white polo shirts. I don't get the point of having the nursing students wear polo shirts! The "new" incoming students are purchasing scrub tops. They are not giving the students who are already in the program the opportunity to get these, we are being forced to stick with the polo shirts.
Besides being ugly and looking ridiculous, they are uncomfortable. They twist up when you are moving patients around and the collar bunches up. You end up looking very unprofessional and you walk around adjusting your shirt all the time. I just don't understand why they can't let ALL of the students have the option to purchase the new scrub tops.
I'm sorry about the rant. I've been off from classes all summer and haven't been on here much, but just got this news and needed to vent.
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But everyone isn't looking the same...if half the school is wearing the polo shirts and half the scrub tops. In that way..they should have atleast made it an option for those with the polo shirts to get the scrub tops. That way..there would be more students wearing the new tops.
Everyone in your cohort does look the same and that's what matters. Besides, other than passing each other in the hallway or sitting in the department office (assuming your school requires that uniforms be worn to class, which only some do), when would anyone see the two different uniforms side-by-side?
It's actually not MY school..I'm just commenting onthe thread. Everyone at MY school has the same uniform. They may have the same color..but not the same exact uniform. It's ironic to me how nursing schools are so particular about a million things..what type of shoe you can or cannot wear...how your hair much be off the collar in the uniform..take this out or off..cover this. Yet they have 2 sets of tops. I was just wondering why they couldn't simply make it an option.
Everyone in your cohort does look the same and that's what matters. Besides, other than passing each other in the hallway or sitting in the department office (assuming your school requires that uniforms be worn to class, which only some do), when would anyone see the two different uniforms side-by-side?
consider yourselves lucky!! we're still in whites, in an old timey nursing smock. we're still trying to get over the underpants issue, one instructor says white, one says no--flesh toned, one says no--pink, one says no--black. now why in the heck would i want to wear black undies under a pair of white pants?? i'm as pale as can be.
i'd love to be in any colored scrubs or polo shirt.
wait..we have white pants and i wear black underwear because you can't see anything underneath. white and basically any other color will show...especially pink! so unfortunately, i couldn't wear my pink underwear with smiley faces....lol
consider yourselves lucky!! we're still in whites, in an old timey nursing smock. we're still trying to get over the underpants issue, one instructor says white, one says no--flesh toned, one says no--pink, one says no--black. now why in the heck would i want to wear black undies under a pair of white pants?? i'm as pale as can be.
i'd love to be in any colored scrubs or polo shirt.
wait..we have white pants and i wear black underwear because you can't see anything underneath. white and basically any other color will show...especially pink! so unfortunately, i couldn't wear my pink underwear with smiley faces....lol
i just wish someone would make up my mind. i swear we've wasted so much time on the undies thing i've just given up. it's in the handbook, flesh or white, i'd think it would be a done deal, but i've had two different clinical instructors go on for at least an hour at different times about it, heard about it in orientation, and in the classroom.
It seems that in general everyone has some sort of issue with their uniforms.
I have to say though that I agree with one of the pp's that since part of the students in our school are wearing the polo shirts and part are wearing the scrub top, we should have the option. We don't wear the uniforms, except for at clinical, but there are times when groups are back to back on the same floor and we are all in the same place at the same time.
I don't have anything in writing yet, but I hear that we do have to get traditional whites to wear for our pinning. So, I'm sure I'll be complaining about that when the time comes....
You guys are so lucky to have dark scrubs or polo to wear. My school you can only wear a white scrub top and white pants. So of course we had the whole what kind of underwear do you wear discussion. Needless to say we were told "NO THONGS"
You guys are so lucky to have dark scrubs or polo to wear. My school you can only wear a white scrub top and white pants. So of course we had the whole what kind of underwear do you wear discussion. Needless to say we were told "NO THONGS"
Seriously. And I have had the PERIODS FROM HELL since I stopped breastfeeding. . .I'm just waiting to make a big ol' mess on my crisp white scrubs. Obviously a man came up with the idea to put a bunch of women in white pants.
As for the ones who think you'll get to wear whatever you want when you graduate: not necessarily. The hospital where I work is all navy scrubs, ceil blue scrubs, or green in my case (for techs).
Sooo happy that our uniforms are just regular blue scrubs....we had to order the same ones and they're a little thick so they get hot, but it's better than what I've seen other schools wear....
if you've got to do the white dress thing for pinning, start scanning your local thrift stores (ours doesn't specify-just the old-timey white dress.) i've had one since i was doing pre-reqs that i paid about $4.00 for.
Wow, our scrubs consist of pleated white pants, white cotton scrub top (that is still too big even at a small) and a blue vest. That's right, I said vest. If you added a hair net, I would look exactly like a lunch lady. I wished for regular scrubs but to no avail. *sigh*
"Wait..we have white pants and I wear black underwear because you can't see anything underneath."
I just want to know how you can wear black underwear under white and not have it visible Do you have a dark skin tone? I am pale white and black underwear would be totally visible in white pants...people would be snickering at me behind my back LOL!
And the poster whose school had a "no thongs" rule...whaaat? That's all I wear! I can't believe a school could dictate what KIND of underwear you wear...as long as it's not visible through the pants, it shouldn't matter if you're wearing granny panties or going commando
I am glad our school has us wear purple; I may look like a grape-colored stick walking around, but I can wear whatever underwear I choose!
Do you have a dark skin tone? I am pale white and black underwear would be totally visible in white pants...people would be snickering at me behind my back LOL!
TheSquire, DNP, APRN, NP
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Everyone in your cohort does look the same and that's what matters. Besides, other than passing each other in the hallway or sitting in the department office (assuming your school requires that uniforms be worn to class, which only some do), when would anyone see the two different uniforms side-by-side?