What is your unit's Uniform Policy

[1994OBRN]

I have worked at various ob units and usually there have been two ways the uniform policy was instituted. Either the hospital provided scrubs and you changed when you got to the unit or else you provided your own scrubs and wore them in. Our unit has just changed policy to say that you use your own scrubs but you can't wear them in.. you have to bring them with you and change at work. I was wondering what other units do and what you think about the various policies.. also is there any research out there regarding infection rates and uniform policies.. Thanks

[azrose82]

For myself, I prefer to wear all white or unit colors, with white shoes. I've since gotten several compliments from patients and other nurses who say that I "look sharp" or that they can tell I'm a nurse. I think we should stand out as a cohesive group of professionals.

[nurseob7]

We change in to scrubs when we arrive at the hospital. We are supposed to do a three minute scrub before we start work but seems like everyone got away from it years ago. Heard it is going to start up again soon and enforced, which I think it should be. We have a couple staff members who "sneak" in to work in their scrubs, but they are going against the rules. I've thought about saying something to them, but haven't as of yet.

[Justhere, BSN, RN]

Our hospital has it that each unit has its own color ob/nursery/postpartum wear pink pants and either a pink or print shirt. The hospital does provide pink scrubs but they usually disappear as soon as they put out the new ones. We laundry are own and wear them into work.

[NRSNFL]

Hi, I work for a Children's hospital in Tampa and to my knowledge we do not have any color coding policies. We wear whatever kind of scrubs we want, the more colorful and perky the better-we are working with kids after all...and almost everyone wears them into the hospital. I love being able to wear all kinds of designs and expressing myself, but also love that the kids love it too. Additionally, I hope at some point to work within L&D and am fairly sure the local big hospitals here that have L&D don't require uniforms just from when I delivered. I think the only exception to these lax rules are surgical teams.

[Bibi-OBRN]

At my hospital the entire L&D, postpartum, nursery and NICU where the same scrubs and get them form a valet machine and return them at the end of the shift. The other hospital I used to work at did the same. I think it is for security reasons. The entire mother-baby unit looks the same versus other hospital staff.

[mjsobrn]

We just changed a couple of years ago from barny purple to wear what you want with "mostly" white shoes and NO clogs

[nurse79]

Our hospital has designated colors for each dept as well: royal blue for nrsg, with the hospital emblem on the top scrub and scrub jacket provided by the hospital, maroon for cna's, green housekeeping, navy for rad techs, and supposedly hunter green for Mds. shoes do not have a preference, as long as they look tidy. I heard talk of changing our scrubs to white, which i think is not realistic if you do any type of pt. care. Hopefully that does not pass anytime soon, ALSO the white shoe think..BAD idea.

[jenrninmi, MSN, RN]

Until Jan 1st of this year our department all wore surgical scrubs the hospital provided - whether it be nurse or tech. Now all nurses in the hospital must wear royal blue and techs wear black. The surg techs still wear the hospital provided surgical scrubs though. I wasn't really happy with this change at first, but now it is much easier for me to know who the nurses are and who isn't. Also our scrubs brought from home (we can wear them into the hospital here - thank goodness), for the most part are nicely pressed and much better fitting than the wrinkled surgical scrubs.

[feminist-mama]

We all wear scrubs- whatever color/pattern we choose. Housekeeping does as well, as does dietary.

It is hard to tell who is who.

[SmilingBluEyes]

I don't think housekeeping and dietary should wear scrubs at all.

And I don't think white works in L/D either.

[33-weeker]

We can wear all grape/purple or purple pants with the print top/jacket the unit chose as a group. The problem is that the tops are fading, it was a discontinued print, and now everyone is buying other prints.

During the months that holidays fall in, we can wear seasonal scrubs.

So basically, few of us are 'uniform' most of the time. :lol2:

I wish they would just stick to grape pants and a coordinating top/jacket. That would be easy. We all wear badges specific to our unit.

I agree that houskeeping should not wear scrubs.

[HappyNurse2005, RN]

L&D wears hospital provided scrubs, tops of a particular pattern (blue pattern) or solid blue, then blue pants, and blue scrub jackets if you so choose. change into them at hospital, change out before leaving (OR purposes)

postpartum/nursery can wear whatever they want scrub wise.