What's your dress code at work?

[Nola009]

Are you "color-coded" like we are at my job or can any staff member wear whatever scrubs they want? At my job, we nurses must wear ceil blue while others, depending on their department, wear maroon, navy, dark green, light green, or royal blue. The idea is that other workers and the patients and visitors can easily recognize what each person does --- even from far away. I'm sure there's truth to that, but still.

[AnnieOaklyRN, BSN, RN, EMT-P]

Where I used to work we could wear any color we wanted, as long as we looked neat and clean. We had a big tag below our name badge that indicated what profession we were.

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[kgoode0919]

The facility I work for is color coded. Nurses must buy navy blue and have the facilities' name with "Nursing" embroidered on each top or lab coat. We buy the scrubs out of pocket and then must have the damn things embroidered out of pocket as well.

[No Stars In My Eyes]

When I worked at MGH on the fresh spinal cord injury unit, where there were a lot of halo-frames (a brand new treatment at the time) the nurses wore (any colors) polo shirts and culottes. Since we often had to crawl up on the edges of beds and assume awkward positions to move patients in log-roll style, it was more modest. Other than OR and Psych, we were the only nurses not bound to the dress-code rule of whites and caps.

[Guest03/15/15, BSN, RN]

We are color coded. All nurses wear all white - even in the ER

[Katie71275]

We can wear whatever we want thankfully!