do we wear our white uniforms for pysch clinicals?

[starrys]

we wore our white uniforms for our clinicals. do we wear the uniforms for the psych clinicals as well? or business attire?

[Psychcns]

For Inpatient staff work, I was able to get away with scrub top and regular pants or skirt. Or scrub pants and regular top. I love scrubs-they are comfortable, wear well, and have pockets.

[SunshineDaisy, ASN, RN]

Same as others, business casual! Last name covered on our badges, as someone stated, nothing that hangs. I have to go buy some new clothes as well, oh darn:bugeyes:

[psu_213, BSN, RN]

I wore khakis, polo shirt, lab coat (as per instructors instuctions ). The instructor said to 'dress smart'...i.e. no revealing/low cut/etc. clothes. One young lady wore that stuff anyway, and the instructor gave her her sweater to wear. Anyway, ask your instructor what they want you to wear. Pretty sure it won't be your regular clinical uniform.

[justchill, BSN, RN]

We wore business casual during that rotation but the actual nurses working were allowed to wear scrubs just no all white/black, they actually preferred them to wear patterns as long as they weren't to wonky. So neons haha

[ashleyisawesome, BSN, RN]

we still wear our uniforms.. they used to do street clothes, but the staff was having trouble telling who was a NS, a MHT, or a patient.

[aachavez]

Your instructor should have this info for you.. at my school they provided us our white scrubs, as well as a white polo with the school logo. When we go to psych rotations (or whenever else an instructor tells us is appropriate) we wear the polo with khaki's. It's in the handbook as well.

[LindaB73]

We wore our uniforms. The nurses on the unit wore scrubs.

[morningdew]

Luckily our uniforms are navy blueish scrubs so we wore our scrubs. But before the uniform used to be white and they would wear professional attire.

[OB-nurse2013, BSN, RN]

We were told by our school to wear business professional but our clinical instructor told us to wear scrubs of any color except white (our usual uniform) which is how the rest of the floor dresses.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

In school we were told to wear conservative street clothing for our psych clinical. That translated to no jeans, no shorts, no skirts, nothing tight, nothing revealing, no open toed shoes, and no laces in our shoes (really). In my mind I've always equated it to how I would have dressed for going to church...or court.

As a nurse, I usually see students come though in street clothing, though there are a couple of schools that require their students to wear (depending on the school) a school lab coat over their street clothing, or a school polo shirt with a pair of slacks.

[orientbeachgirl]

We wear our White nursing uniform top with our Navy Blue Scrub pants and white shoes. Our instructor has never said anything about the patients getting upset about scrubs/uniforms....but we are in a hospital psych setting. The nurses and social workers/therapists also wear scrubs. Just saying.

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

oh my, this reminds me of when i did my psych rotation a hunnert years or so ago, when "burn the bra" was a daily occurrence and nobody i knew ever wore them. being a lot younger then, i had, umm, firmer mammaries, and so i didn't wear them under my jersey tee's when i went to the state hospital in my street clothes. we could wear jeans (if they weren't ratty), everyone did, even the docs.

my instructor pulled me over on the third day or so and asked me if maybe i'd thought about this. i had, actually. i said that when these people got out of here they were going to see a lot of women not wearing bras, and perhaps it was good for them to see someone in a nursing role like that, not being seductive, not being show-off-y, just being a regular person, so when they got out they wouldn't assume the seductive thing when they saw it on the street and overreact. she looked thoughtful for a minute and said, "ok," and that was that.