What color are your school uniforms?

[TheCommuter]

I thought this would be an interesting topic of discussion.

What color are the uniforms that you all wear to clinical rotations? The scrubs at the school that I currently attend are maroon. We have the option of wearing a white warm-up jacket on those chilly days.

When I was attending an LVN program back in 2004 and 2005, our uniforms consisted of a royal blue scrub top and white pants. We also had the option of wearing a white warm-up jacket on cold days.

[Destination1]

Solid black from head to toe with embroidered emblem on the sleeve. I think it looks sharp.

[Scrubmouse RN]

Navy blue top. Navy blue bottom. Very slimming

[NGeorgia]

Straight leg scrubs, white tee, and a vest. eww...

[murphyle, BSN, RN]

In lecture: Traditional BSNs wear whatever they want. Accelerated Second Degree BSNs wear lab coat over professional attire. ASD cohorts may occasionally purchase a "casual Friday" with donations to school SNA or other charities, or instructors may grant a casual day for special occasions.

Offsite clinical or community service: Traditionals wear school-issue black polo over khaki trousers and student ID tag. ASDs wear lab coat over professional attire and ID tag; no open-back or open-toe shoes allowed.

Hospital clinical: White scrub shirt, white scrub pants, white or "majority white" sneakers or nurse shoes, student ID tag (some hospitals may require additional facility ID). Traditionals wear no coat and a school patch on the left sleeve. ASDs wear no patch and a lab coat when off unit; coat can be worn on-unit at instructor discretion.

[DoGoodThenGo]

Girls, stop your whining! *LOL*

Until rather recently, and we're speaking of only ten to fifteen years or so this or some version of it would have made up your student nurse uniform:

And these were your shoes, same as one wore as an RN when on duty:

[moonchildLPN82]

We had to wear an awful thick green polo, white pants that went up to your chest and a white vest.

[HyperSaurus, RN, BSN]

How do those caps stay on the head?

[LesMonsterRN, ADN, RN]

How do those caps stay on the head?

Staples.

We used any number of white bobby pins and/or clippies to hold them on. Our LPN uniforms in the early 90's were blue/white pinstriped a-line dresses with white bibs that went a few inches below the knees, white hose and our caps. We called them our smurf dresses.

My RN program wears navy scrub pants (I opt for cargo), and white scrub tops with our university mascot embroidered in navy on the left upper chest. We can wear sneakers as long as they're clean. We also have optional white warm up jackets with the mascot embroidery.

[MissCharlieRN]

My uniform is white pants, white jacket, white shoes, and navy blue scrub top. They recently made a change so that the entire uniform is navy blue, but if you wanted to wear the white pants you were allowed to (Hey, I already spent $55 on the white pants, so I'm sticking with them. When you're broke, you're broke.)

We had this big school wide discussion with the dean of the nursing school to discuss improvements to our program. Out of all the things that needed to be improved upon in the program, a group of women insisted that it's unfair to make women wear white pants. (I'm a woman and think that's a little absurd. I understand the menstrual cycle issues, but seriously? What are you gonna do when you get out of school?) so they made a change to all navy blue.

Then there was an uproar because everyone already purchased the white pants for the uniform, so they let us wear both.

Just a side note: I wonder what they will do considering the major hospital system in my area requires RNs to wear ALL white uniforms. I'm not a fan of wearing all white, but hey, what can you do?

[TheSquire, DNP, APRN, NP]

Girls, stop your whining! *LOL*

Until rather recently, and we're speaking of only ten to fifteen years or so this or some version of it would have made up your student nurse uniform:

Nope, not for me. Then again, I'm one of the many thousands of reasons that "girls" is no longer a proper way to address a group of nursing students...

[CrazierThanYou]

Ours are white scrub tops and royal blue pants. White lab coat. The scrub tops have blue and white patches on the arms with our nursing consortium logo.