What does your nursing uniform look like?

Zeta~Lady · Feb 17, 2008

Our uniforms are all white from http://www.doveapparel.com/ they are aweful. The tops are button down, the pants are the kind that are made to come up to you boobs (sorry*) and then there are the lab coats, oh and we could order the little dresses too. I am pretty sure they are made of cardboard and fiberglass, and a whole bottle of fabric softner will not help....trust me I tried it! We had a fitting, because you have to order the uniforms from California, and the uniforms are not true to size, I mean I tried on the uniforms and ordered based on that and when I got mine the pants and the lab coat are way to big still. Also according to the measurement chart I was supposed to order a medium in everything and at the fitting the extra smalls are what fit the best, and when I got them in they are to big. They are also expensive, $42/shirt, $48/pants, $48/coat (roughly).

The one good thing about them is that they are stain proof, heck I am pretty sure they are waterproof!

Whoo-sorry for the rant!! Thanks for listening though!

kaylajane08 · Feb 18, 2008

That is interesting you were any scrubs you want for the classroom. At my school, we are at the college for class time and just wear street clothes.

KLKRN, RN · Feb 28, 2008

EGADS! I can't even remember what mine was! But I think I hated it as much as I hate wearing scrubs to this day.

With all the crap (figurative and literal) we get into, why can't we just wear jeans and T-shirts!

momtojosh · Feb 28, 2008

i think our scrubs are by far the UGLIEST.....they are kahki top and hunter green pants......hunter green coats if ya want one......

we look like cafeteria workers!!!

i got to go up on the ACU floor a couple of weeks ago and had to wear blue OR scrubs.......I LOVED THEM!!!! soft,comfy,and even though they were plain OR scrubs,,,,,they were alot better than what we have to wear....

KLKRN, RN · Feb 28, 2008

Those are definitely comfy. (the hospital scrubs)

dtrmnd2sccd · Apr 16, 2008

I'm LOL about all these "beautiful" colors!! I just found out my program's scrubs are all navy blue, w/the college name embroidered in white on the top. White shoes. Not too bad, but I have a ENORMOUS hairy tan dog... will have to carry a lint brush with me at all times!!

Wondering--are the scrub colors related to your school colors? Mine are--school colors are white/blue. Thank god!! :bowingpur :bow:

Rianna1 · Apr 16, 2008

You are lucky. Our clinical uniforms are all white and white shoes. Very funky looking. It's only for one year and I'm proud to be a nursing student, so I'll wear my uniform proudly :specs:

Salamanda NP, MSN, APRN, NP · Apr 16, 2008

I found out a week ago that we will be wearing navy scrub bottoms with a white top. The top has our school name embroidered on it. Also, white shoes. I was so excited to find out the pants aren't white!!! :lol2:

valkyria, BSN, RN · Apr 16, 2008

when i went to nursing school the first time, i had to wear white pants, that hopefully you could not see through,(some of the other students forgot that even red thongs can show through the "thick" white material), and a white zip up the front smock with aqua shoulder strips that mark you like a big red a would for all to see. the second time i went to nursing school, first they wanted white pants and a white polo shirt with the patch of the school on the shoulder and a white lab coat with the patch of the school on it. now that same school allows forest green scrubs, soft ones with a big u on them and white shoes. now, i chose to wear white, it is a little more fitted and the legs sometimes have flares, and i wear nikes because i do alot of walking around campus. but, it is white. i would have liked to wear that little hat, i never got a pinning ceremony where i could wear it. there is one lady at a near by multi-site hospital that wears one every day. everybody there knows who she is. at another site in that same group, it was tried for a while that each unit had to wear its own colors. another local hospital has different colors required for different units and even another hosputal requires different colors depending on you job, i.e. nurses wear burgundy or white, techs wear gray or aqua, respiratory wears dark blue or...you get the picture. i can see the reasoning behind that but stuff like betty boop and the wild colors make us look unprofessional. unless, you work in l&d or pedi, then sponge bob and precious moments is reasonable. just one nurses opinion.

FutureRN19 · Apr 16, 2008

Bright Navy Blue Scrubs with our College's Logo on it and white shoes.

NurseBrittney · Apr 16, 2008

Our class wore White MC hammer parachute pants, Navy Snap (that pop open at every whim, get caught on doors, and pretty much for you to wear an under shirt) tops. White gaudy lab coats. And white shoes of course. The top and the lab coat have the school patch on the sleeve.

The uniforms changed after our class. They have gorgeous Blue (lighter than navy) scrubs, and nice tailored white lab coats.

I don't mind white at all. I wouldn't even be opposed to a cap, but something more fitted would have been better than what we had.

sneakymom2011 · Apr 16, 2008

White with green piping. And the school emblem is right on the shoulder. The guys have it better. They have blue scrub tops and white pants. There's 2 guys in our clinical cohort, and we are SO jealous of what they get to wear.

The really bad thing is, you could buy a dress, or pants and a top. I bought both b/c I read it to say that you needed the dress for graduation. Wrong. The dress is to be worn to clinicals (if you buy them). You buy a separate white dress at graduation. And, the company we ordered them from wouldn't take the dress back.

Yes, I bought a dress. And yes, I'm wearing it to clinical tomorrow b/c 1) I don't wanna wash the other uniform, and 2) I paid $50 for it, and I can't get that money back.