What does your nursing uniform look like?

cn2007rn · May 15, 2006

My nursing program still has the original uniforms from when the program started back in the 70's....an all white uniform with tapered pants, a long white top with puffy sleeves, ribbing in the front, and a zipper down the middle!!! It's really terrible!!! We look like we are wearing halloween costumes or something. They were talking about changing the style but I have one more year and I am done, so I probably won't be spending the money, unless they are a lot nicer! So no scrubs, no fun printed tops, no cool colored clogs or sneakers for school here! I guess that will be the reward for graduating and becoming an RN, fun scrubs!!

Also, our uniform is mostly polyester, can anyone say sweaty!! You walk down the hall into a patient's room and you are sweating, it's the polyester, holds all the heat in! :angryfire my face is this red when I wear it!!

jhawkgirl · May 15, 2006

Navy scrubs, white shoes (but the profs don't really care if they're not white). Can't complain!

maliat · May 15, 2006

Our uniforms are white scrub top with a green patterned stripe down one side and the school patch on the other. (I can't really explain the stripe, becuase you have to see it to understand what I'm talking about.) And we get to wear white or dark green pants. Thank you to the previous year's classes who argued for the dark green pants. And of course the usual white shoes. We also have to get a lab coat (though we probably won't wear it until we do community clinicals) and green polo shirt with the school logo. The one problem that we're all going to have is that the pants are way too long. Most of my classmates are shorter than me at 5'3". It's kind of depressing becuase they're all like size 1s and here I am at 12/14.

Malia

mitchsmom · May 15, 2006

Ours was whites from http://www.doveapparel.com/ - expensive but nothing really weird looking so it was fine.

We had an optional lab coat and I wore it EVERY day because I was usually freezing cold! I also liked the extra pockets because I carry everything but the kitchen sink.

heatherp · May 15, 2006

Ours are all white scrubs. We got a big lecture about it having to be all white...white...and white. No cream, off white, or light anything. We have to have a lab coat too, our only clue as to what one to get was "with deep pockets." We have to wear the lab coat whenever we go in for pre-clinicals, and the clinical sites tend to be cold, so I'm told we acutally get a lot of use out of the lab coats. Some rotations we get to wear "nice" street clothes, and some clinicals also provide their scrubs, so the whites will not be every semester for all 3 years.

marilynmom, LPN, NP · May 15, 2006

Ours are dark blue scrubs and we have to wear white shoes, I can't complain.

Messink · May 15, 2006

White pants and a white short labcoat. Here it doesn't matter what kind of shoes you wear, as long as they're easy to clean and comfortable to wear.

We actually wear the same type of uniform as the nurses themselves are required to wear. Here in the Netherlands as a nurse or nursing student you wear all whites, no scrubs. Luckily the hospitals provide you with the uniforms and clean them as well.

Trauma Columnist · May 15, 2006

When I went to nursing school the first time around (1977), we had pinafores (like little apron things) that were blue pin-stripes with a white blouse that buttoned up the front. Oh and did I mention no pants whatsoever and the skirt thing had to come to our knees???

When I went back to nursing school in 1990, we had white scrubs but no other rules - pretty easy to be compliant.

With the uniforms we had to wear in the 1970's its no wonder I quit and joined the US Navy - tee hee hee!

regglynn · May 15, 2006

Ours is a royal blue pants and top with the school embrodered on it. Then we have a white lab coat to wear going into the hospital, and when leaving, or whenever we leave the floor. On our badge, we have ADN student nurse with our name, and we also have to wear a school id with our pic and name

carolinapooh, BSN, RN · May 15, 2006

We have to wear white shoes (something no one understands) and have to have a white scrub jacket with the program patch on it. As for scrubs, I can't complain; the packet I received today says: "scrub type uniform - design is student's choice - with coordinated top and pants or skirt". So I cannot wait to go scrub shopping, even though the catalogs are too much like sensory overload...I cannot imagine what the stores will be like!

Chicklet2 · May 15, 2006

I can't complain. We were allowed to wear whatever type of uniform we wanted and whatever color or pattern. As for the shoes they had to be white, but were allowed to have some color but not a lot. I can't imagine having to wear all white. We wore all white for grad and I got it dirty in the first hour.