Hi Everyone - this is my first post and my first dumb question - but I'm sure there will be many more to come! :)
Anyway, I am starting an ASN program in the fall (Thomas Jefferson University) and I know it's a long way off, but do nursing students wear scrubs to regular class every day? There is a school by my house and I ALWAYS see nursing students in scrubs even though they are in class and not clinicals.
I will be working all summer so I want to get as many things together before the fall, including clothes shopping.
At my school we wore scrubs for labs, and of course clinicals. We also wear scrubs when we got for orientations such as the very 1st day of nursing school & we also orientate to each rotation. On lecture days we're in regular clothes unless we have a job that ended right before school or starts right after. Those scrubs are different though, our school does not allow us to wear the "schools scrubs" for a personal job since our's are embroidered w/the school name & all that. Your school will probably very specific as to what they want.
Here's what most schools leave out & should state from day one:
Do not do anything in school scrubs (colors) that you would not do in front of your most conservative relative. When we are in scrubs we represent our school, hospital, clinic, or whatever and should act accordingly.
so no road rage, flipping someone off, or drinking in public in scrubs. A hospital employee wearing their clearly labeled "such and such hospital" scrubs acted very aggressively towards me, my husband, and several other people pumping gas at a station. He actually floored his car & acted like he was going to run all of us over because all of us customers there were "taking too long to pump, I get got to get work, etc"
Someone wrote the tag down & DMV came back w/his name. The police caught him because of his scrubs, they simply drove to the hospital, asked for him by name & arrested him at the hospital for aggression, road rage, and using a motor vehicle to intimdate x5. Goofy story but it can happen.
Some people wear scrubs because they have to go to work or just came from work where it is required, some days I go straight from clinical to lecture and half of the class is wearing scrubs then, but that is only because we don't have time to change inbetween. I don't know of any places that make you wear them while youre not in clinical though.
I only wear scubs/nursing uniforms in class when I am coming after work. Our school does not require uniforms unless you are in clinical. In some psych rotations you may not wear one either. I ditto not getting your uniforms until you know what your school requires. In LPN school the uniform salesman came in and measured us and we all got the same uniform. In RN school, we have one uniform shop we can go to and have two choices for a top and for a bottom. They are actually quite nice.
That being said, I know there are schools that require you to wear a uniform during class too. Wait unitl you get your orientation and see what is required.
my school enforced wearing scrubs at all times. we had different scrubs we had to wear for clinicals, but in the classroom/labs we could wear whatever ones we felt comfortable with.
I wear scrubs only because I'm leaving work and going STRAIGHt to class after work, so I have no choice. However, when I'm not at work I try to never wear them scrubs. I so miss regular cute colthes. Although I have to admit in this cold weather I'm way more comfortable in scrubs. Its like wearing big,comfy pajamas everyday.
There's a lot of contorversy in this practice and in my school we are not allowed to step foot in lab or class with scrubs that have been "at work". You are bringing god -knows- what microorganisms to the lab and our instructors would fail you for the day if you did that.
I suppose that would depend on the dress code of the school. In my NS, you don't need to wear scrubs to class: you can wear casual clothing. Clinical days mean you wear the clinical uniform...which I wish WAS scrubs instead of the white polyester monstrosity they make us wear.
Some of my classmates have come in scrubs because they just came from work or were going to work after class. They never got into trouble for it.
My instructors considered scrubs "contaminated" after a day in the hospital, what with the MRSA, c-dif, and god knows what else is floating around in there... I guess I am inclined to agree.
Our school makes up wear scrubs with the school's name embroided on the front and we have another uniform for clnical. I wouldn't wear my school scrubs to work and I think it's a silly idea but at least I don't have to think about what I am going to wear to school on everyday.
AmericanRN
396 Posts
At my school we wore scrubs for labs, and of course clinicals. We also wear scrubs when we got for orientations such as the very 1st day of nursing school & we also orientate to each rotation. On lecture days we're in regular clothes unless we have a job that ended right before school or starts right after. Those scrubs are different though, our school does not allow us to wear the "schools scrubs" for a personal job since our's are embroidered w/the school name & all that. Your school will probably very specific as to what they want.
Here's what most schools leave out & should state from day one:
Do not do anything in school scrubs (colors) that you would not do in front of your most conservative relative. When we are in scrubs we represent our school, hospital, clinic, or whatever and should act accordingly.
so no road rage, flipping someone off, or drinking in public in scrubs. A hospital employee wearing their clearly labeled "such and such hospital" scrubs acted very aggressively towards me, my husband, and several other people pumping gas at a station. He actually floored his car & acted like he was going to run all of us over because all of us customers there were "taking too long to pump, I get got to get work, etc"
Someone wrote the tag down & DMV came back w/his name. The police caught him because of his scrubs, they simply drove to the hospital, asked for him by name & arrested him at the hospital for aggression, road rage, and using a motor vehicle to intimdate x5. Goofy story but it can happen.