What do you wear in lab?

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I start my nursing program in January and I was just kind of curious as to what student wear during lab? Is it common to wear scrubs or usually just regular clothing? I know schools are all different. Just wanted to hear what others wear.

Specializes in Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing.

We're supposed to wear our lab coats over our regular clothes for lab (as we too are not supposed to wear our scrub uniforms outside of clinical sessions or approved clinical volunteering opportunities). However, everyone in my cohort just wore our usual clothes and left off the lab coats.

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Specializes in MICU - CCRN, IR, Vascular Surgery.

We only wear uniforms for clinical. Everything else is whatever you want to wear. I usually wear my scrubs from work since I go to work in the morning and go straight to school from work. (My scrubs are clean though, I just do data entry, not work with people!)

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We have wear our clinical uniform (navy blue scrubs with school patch on left shoulder and white shoes). I like it. It's comfy and it's what we wear clinically, so I like that we practice dressed the same way.

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Last year we could basically wear whatever we want as long as we had close-toed shoes (in case a needle drops on you or something...)

This year they changed the rules and are making us wear our lab coats that have our school patch at "college of nursing" on them.

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I start my nursing program in January and I was just kind of curious as to what student wear during lab? Is it common to wear scrubs or usually just regular clothing? I know schools are all different. Just wanted to hear what others wear.
During lab at school everybody just wore what they wanted... lots of shorts and tees, some sun dresses, and lots of jeans.

Off campus, though, it was either business casual or scrubs, depending on the setting.

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