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.
Specializes in ICU, Trauma, ER, Peds, Family Practice.
When I visualize scrubs I think of where they are worn. In the OR, recovery room, critical care. Think of all the fine sheets of DNA and RNA all over those buggers and who would want to wear them outside of the clinical area. I hate seeing professionals in public in scrubs. I just know what was on my scrubs and what you could bring into the clinical areas. Even if you wear them too work you are still bringing in stuff to the medically comprised patients. So leave them in the clinical area instead of spreading germs around (fine sheets of DNA and RNA) . Plus you wear them too much and you loose your sense of any fashion that you have.
We too have a very specific uniform - that i wish was a little more scrubish - we have to purchase and wear for clinical. My school is VERY particular about how we look for rotations, white, clean, pressed creases, hair back, no jewlery (wedding band only), shoes must be all white - and i mean ALL white, no marks, scuffs, none of those plastic clogs.. For our out rotatoin they are also very strict with our dress, even if we are going to a facility that we will change into their scrubs, we MUST be dressed professionally at all times, no jeans, sweats, tee-shirts, sneakers... nothing like that. I have found myself actually dressing better since I started school. Now for lecture, they could care less - i swear some of the younger girls do come in PJ's.
But, we do hear compliments from hospital staff and patients that back that theory up. We do cross paths with students from other schools that have more relaxed uniforms (scrubs, polo's and kahaki's..ect.) now, we do look like old fashioned orderly's but we're not faded or stained or wrinkled..
When I visualize scrubs I think of where they are worn. In the OR, recovery room, critical care.
I agree with you in a sense... although in my case they were the "cute" kind of scrubs with patterns that I wore to work at an endocrinologist office. Still, there are all kinds of "bugs" that you can transport around, and one can't be too careful.
We also have a very strict dress code for clinicals. I think it's important - makes you appear more professional. (Even if you're shaking in your boots!)
I have class at Lincoln Univ. at Ft. Leonard Wood. We just wear regular clothes to classes. We have two different outfits for clinicals depending on location.
Specializes in Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing.
When I visualize scrubs I think of where they are worn. In the OR, recovery room, critical care. Think of all the fine sheets of DNA and RNA all over those buggers and who would want to wear them outside of the clinical area. I hate seeing professionals in public in scrubs. I just know what was on my scrubs and what you could bring into the clinical areas. Even if you wear them too work you are still bringing in stuff to the medically comprised patients. So leave them in the clinical area instead of spreading germs around (fine sheets of DNA and RNA) . Plus you wear them too much and you loose your sense of any fashion that you have.
As someone with a BS in Molecular and Cellular Bio, I applaud the application of your thinking, but must say that your underlying reasoning (i.e. fine sheets of DNA and RNA) makes little/no sense.
I attend Baptist nursing school in little rock and we are required to where the whole uniform at all times on campus. We get sent home if we are not in uniform-even though this is my first year in RN school!
But I love wearing scrubs to school cause that means I dont have to pick an outfit out each day!
I am just about finished with the pre-nursing program where I go to school (Phoenix College, Phoenix AZ) and waiting for placement now. Yes, here at PC (and all the other county community colleges here) the nursing students wear scrubs with the community college logo on them, even when they are attending classes on campus - I see them at the Nursing Building all the time. I'm looking forward to wearing them myself someday :-) I like the idea myself, because it reminds you of what you are studying to become. In a lot of my pre-nursing classes like math, chem, psych, that I took, everyone has to take these and sometimes it was hard to remember that you are an aspiring nurse-to-be. I liked taking anatomy & physiology, and now microbiology, because while these classes are hard, they're a tangible and visible reminder that I'm studying to be a nurse. That's the way I look at wearing scrubs to class. It's a visible reminder to you and to the world that you are studying to be an RN.
The only people who wore scrubs to the classes I was in either worked the night shift or were going to work the swing shift after class. Even then, most of them preferred to change into jeans, changing either to or from work. Wearing sweaty scrubs you've worked all night in is a smelly proposition and wearing them all day before work raises the risk of bringing contamination into the workplace.
I've never seen anybody wearing them as an affectation, but I suppose it's possible.
paddlelady, BSN, RN
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When I visualize scrubs I think of where they are worn. In the OR, recovery room, critical care. Think of all the fine sheets of DNA and RNA all over those buggers and who would want to wear them outside of the clinical area. I hate seeing professionals in public in scrubs. I just know what was on my scrubs and what you could bring into the clinical areas. Even if you wear them too work you are still bringing in stuff to the medically comprised patients. So leave them in the clinical area instead of spreading germs around (fine sheets of DNA and RNA) . Plus you wear them too much and you loose your sense of any fashion that you have.
Paddlelady