Wearing scrubs to nursing school?

[jpearl119]

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.

Thanks in advance :)

[luvmy3babies]

I have been out of school for a long time but it is best to check with your school first. We had to wear a white school uniform with a patch on the sleeve for non clinical days. And on clinical days we showed up in the same uniform with our nursing caps. And do not even forget leaving your nursing cap. You failed your clinical for that day.

[MBU_RN]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the following....maybe my school is different?....

We wear our uniforms to clinicals, of course. However, we are also required to wear them the day before clinicals, when we have to go straight from lecture to the hospital to pick-up our patient assignments.

[Ticamm]

At our school, it is required to wear the uniform. In fact, they send you home if you aren't wearing it. Each field in our school (nursing, dental assisting) has a different color too. We (nurses) wear a royal blue set with the school patch on the left arm, as well as white shoes. I've also seen other schools around here that require uniform color scrubs, and then we know who is from which school when we go to clinicals as well.

Maggi

[cursedandblessed]

all schools are different. your school's website might have more information for you.

back to the bacteria and viruses: i am personally grossed out by my shoes. even wearing the gown, gloves and mask does not prevent all of that on my shoes. i do wipe them down with those antibacterial wipes before i leave, but i'm still not sure what is coming home with me.

[Sarah Hay]

I am in an ADN program in Florida and we are not required to wear scrubs to class. However, there are a couple unit clerks and techs who work before and after class that may wear their uniform to class to prevent the hassale of changing before or after. We do have a few dresscode guidelines, however. In class we are not allowed to wear shorts or low cut tops. In clinicals we have to wear the white uniform, white shoes, hair pulled back, white socks, no jewerly and we are not allowed to wear our stethoscopes around our neck. In school functions we are not allowed to wear jeans. We have to wear nice buisness attire and our nursing polo shirt. We are not allowed to wear open toed shoes at school functions unless it has to do with being outside.

:redpinkhe Sarah Hay, SN

[Chapis]

In my school we have to wear marron bottoms and a white polo shirt and ALL white shoes to school.

[nerdtonurse?, BSN, RN]

What I ran into also (and it was one of those "nursing culture" kinds of things, I guess) was that LPNs/RNs don't like students wearing scrubs. One of our local schools changed the school uniform to look more like scrubs, and most of the experienced nurses were PO'd -- lots of "you have to EARN the right to wear scrubs" comments. The only thing I didn't like was that it was easier to spot them on a crowded floor if they were doing the "Bride of Mr. Clean" look, rather than blending in with the rest of us...I mean, I'd hate to grab someone I thought was a regular floor nurse during a crisis, only to find I was yelling for them to bring me Yaunkauer and a 14 French and perform trach suction NOW while I was prepping for compressions and calling a code, when the poor student was on the floor for the first time ever...

[twow]

it's mostly vocational schools that make you wear scrubs to class.

however, i know of an adn program that makes their students wear scrubs to school