What do you wear to work?

Specialties Hospice

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Specializes in med-surg, LTC, SNF.

I'm about to start orientation at a Hospice home health agency. I forgot to ask about the dress code at my interview so I'll have to wait until my first day. I'm pretty sure the first week will be mostly office training stuff and I should be prepared to dress in casual business style.

I'm curious to know just what is appropiate in home health/hospice.

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Specializes in PICU, NICU, L&D, Public Health, Hospice.

Dress code varies from agency to agency...some wear scrubs others wear street clothes.

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I wear scrubs. You never know what you may walk into in a pt's home.

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Specializes in Hospice.

I usually wear scrub pants and a nice business casual top. We can wear scrubs or business casual, and I think I look more professional in a nicer top, but the scrub pants let me get my work done.

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Specializes in LTC, Psych, Hospice.

Mandatory scrubs with our company logo. BTW, hospice and home health are two different things. Good luck at your new job!

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Specializes in Med Surg, Hospice, Home Health.

I do weekend call friday 5p-monday 8am. Jeans and scrub shirt....or a plain shirt with a scrub jacket.......I always keep a set of scrubs in the car, just incase.....If I pick up extra doing admissions during the week, I always wear scrubs; like everyone else at my agency.

linda

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Specializes in PICU, NICU, L&D, Public Health, Hospice.
Mandatory scrubs with our company logo. BTW, hospice and home health are two different things. Good luck at your new job!

It seems that some agencies do not fully appreciate this...

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Specializes in med-surg, LTC, SNF.
Mandatory scrubs with our company logo. BTW, hospice and home health are two different things. Good luck at your new job!

Thanks, I am enjoying it so far. I do sort of know the difference btwn hospice and home health, I was just trying to differentiate btwn that and in-patient.

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We wear street clothes, business casual. Would rather be able to wear scrubs ... hate getting dressed every morning, especially when it's >100 degrees as it is this week. We also are prohibited from wearing open-toed shoes or going without socks or stockings. Ugh, it's hot.

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Specializes in PICU, NICU, L&D, Public Health, Hospice.
We wear street clothes, business casual. Would rather be able to wear scrubs ... hate getting dressed every morning, especially when it's >100 degrees as it is this week. We also are prohibited from wearing open-toed shoes or going without socks or stockings. Ugh, it's hot.

I worked for an agency that required socks year round....that is cruel and inhumane punishment. That agency also does not allow the field staff to wear capri length pants or sleeveless tops. Summer temps in Michigan get into the triple digits with humidity factored in...and many people do not have air conditioning. It can be brutal.

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Specializes in Peds,ER,FP,Med/surg/oncol, Hospice.

I work for a hospce/home care agency and we also have a in pt unit for hospice. In the unit we where scrubs. Out in the field we are bsically allowed to wear what we want to as long as it is appropriate. Most of the time I wear the copany logo polo shirt with scrub running pants. On occ I will wear tee shirts with my RN title and name on it with the scrub running pants. Our home hospice pts do not like scrubs and have requested on more then 1 occasion that we NOT wear them. They chose to die at home in a home atmosphere and feel that scrubs belong in the hospital. The scrub pants I wear look like running pants with the stripe down the side. Wouldn't even know thats what they were if I didn't buy them from a medical place.

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Specializes in PICU, NICU, L&D, Public Health, Hospice.
I work for a hospce/home care agency and we also have a in pt unit for hospice. In the unit we where scrubs. Out in the field we are bsically allowed to wear what we want to as long as it is appropriate. Most of the time I wear the copany logo polo shirt with scrub running pants. On occ I will wear tee shirts with my RN title and name on it with the scrub running pants. Our home hospice pts do not like scrubs and have requested on more then 1 occasion that we NOT wear them. They chose to die at home in a home atmosphere and feel that scrubs belong in the hospital. The scrub pants I wear look like running pants with the stripe down the side. Wouldn't even know thats what they were if I didn't buy them from a medical place.

I am wondering if you work both in the inpatient unit and in the field...cross-trained? If so, how do you like it?

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