What to wear?

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Specializes in Dialysis, Diabetes Education.

Hello, New to the forum . :)

I have been an RN for 20+ years. In the last year became a nurse sub, and in the last month I have ended up the long term sub at an elementary school with the potential to apply for the position. I am sure I'll have lots of questions, but for now just this: We are given the option to either wear scrubs or professional attire. The other nurses in the district all wear professional clothes. I started doing that until I had to deal with a stomach bug running rampant through the school. I now wear scrubs. Curious as to what all of you wear.

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Specializes in Certified School Nurse.

I wear scrubs. The district I subbed in previously, the nurses wore casual attire. I specifically asked about it when I subbed, and they said "something easy to move around in." Makes sense to me! And yeah...I'd rather not get fluids on my real clothes!

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Specializes in Dialysis, Diabetes Education.

Thanks- the scrubs do seem much more practical, but the other nurses are so dressed up I was questioning myself. :)

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Mostly scrubs, but I sometimes switch it up. Today I am wearing black yoga pants, a long light grey hoodie and an infinity scarf to cover up my girls (The hoodie is low cut)

And flat Uggs.

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
Mostly scrubs, but I sometimes switch it up. Today I am wearing black yoga pants, a long light grey hoodie and an infinity scarf to cover up my girls (The hoodie is low cut)

And flat Uggs.

I was going to wear my long light grey hoodie and infinity scarf today but they were dirty from the weekend. Instead I'm wearing a blue long sleeve, 100% cotton, crew neck T-shirt. Tomorrow I'm going to wear a blue long sleeve, 100% cotton, crew neck T-shirt; and Wednesday, and Thursday, and Friday...yes, Duncan, as most of our AN school nurse family knows, I wear the same kind of shirt every day. :)

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I was going to wear my long light grey hoodie and infinity scarf today but they were dirty from the weekend. Instead I'm wearing a blue long sleeve, 100% cotton, crew neck T-shirt. Tomorrow I'm going to wear a blue long sleeve, 100% cotton, crew neck T-shirt; and Wednesday, and Thursday, and Friday...yes, Duncan, as most of our AN school nurse family knows, I wear the same kind of shirt every day. :)

Shame. We coulda been twinsies. :cheeky:

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Community Health, School Health.

I wear both. M-W at our school is "professional attire" for all. So I usually wear "real" clothes. Th/Fr we can wear jeans, so on those days I either wear jeans or scrubs. I only wear scrub pants though, never the tops. I like wearing our school sweatshirt as my top.

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Initially, I was supposed to wear business casual, but getting vomit/blood out of my dress pants became a problem, so I asked if I could switch to scrubs. Admin never did bother to answer my emails, so I went for it anyway. However, now that I'm pregnant, I've switched back to semi-professional attire because nothing fits!

The only important thing is that on Wednesdays we wear pink!

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Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

I asked when I started if I could wear scrubs and they told me to wear whatever I wanted as long as it was clean and neat. So I wear scrubs everyday and friday is charity jeans day (wear jeans for $1 donation) and I usually wear jeans with a school sweatshirt.

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Yes, we wear Pink on Wednesdays here, Duncan.

WELCOME!!!

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No scrubs allowed here. Only credentialed school nurses can wear a white scrub jacket (none of them actually do). We have a very lax dress code, I've seen everything from jeans and those sparkle flip flops on my fellow non-credentialed nurses to someone like me who dresses like Bernadette from Big Bang Theory everyday. Well, Friday's I wear jeans.

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Specializes in ED, School Nurse.

I wear scrubs most days. Today I am wearing "skinny" jeans (well, nothing on me is actually skinny...), black boots, a green fleece vest and a white shirt underneath. We have a pretty casual dress code here at school. Sometimes I wear leggings and a longer dress.

All of my scrubs are solid colored tops and bottoms. I used to wear patterned tops, but I spent 3 years working in a hospital with a dress code (white tops, maroon pants for all nursing staff) and now I have a hard time wearing patterns. I picked out a couple of patterned tops when I took this job, and I haven't worn them. It's a weird aversion, I know.

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