White scrubs...you have got to be kidding!

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The hospital I work for is considering a dress-code for all staff. RN's and LPN's - White Scrubs / CNA's and Techs - Navy Blue. This is not even funny!:banghead: White scrubs are IMPOSSIBLE to keep clean and I think that its demeaning to say the least. I am all for uniforms so patients and whoever else can identify us, but come on.....get real! Wearing all white is a step-back into the Florence Nightengale era with a lantern and a rose. Either the patient will think I am an old fashioned nurse or I am working at the state hospital disturbed ward.

Help us out lord!

Specializes in Critical Care.

At least ask your hospital to give nurses a secondary color. The last two hospitals I worked for there was a shade of blue reserved for nurses along with white, and any combination thereof is permitted. Give this choice, approximately under 10% ever wear white, and I don't think I've ever seen anybody in solid white (eg, without a blue jacket or pants or something).

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We wore all white in nursing school. I hated it. I'm a big guy and I felt like either the Stay-Puft marshmellow man or the Michilin Man.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
We wore all white in nursing school. I hated it. I'm a big guy and I felt like either the Stay-Puft marshmellow man or the Michilin Man.

I'd take all white over what we wear: white top with teal pants I look like a tube of aquafresh.

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I'd take all white over what we wear: white top with teal pants I look like a tube of aquafresh.

I just shot Diet Pepsi out of my nose.

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.
I just shot Diet Pepsi out of my nose.

LOL!!!

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Good survey. I wonder if the results would be different if we included voter profile by age and gender?

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.
Nonsense. Of course you can keep whites white. I wear mine with pride.

I just finished a clinical examination and the best looking nurse was a woman who was trained in the army and wearing her army-issue whites. I'd buy that uniform if I could find one.

If you can't do it yourself take them to the laundry and pay to have them washed, starched, and pressed. You will look sharp and professional.

I must be the exception. Where I live the water is so nasty you would think that someone voided and didn't flush the toilet. No joke or exaggeration (honestly).

Whites in my neck of the woods are more like tan. Did I mention it is a small town in the middle of nowhere?

I fill those 5 gallon jugs of water by the truck-loads. Thank goodness it's only 25 cents a gallon.

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At least ask your hospital to give nurses a secondary color. The last two hospitals I worked for there was a shade of blue reserved for nurses along with white, and any combination thereof is permitted. Give this choice, approximately under 10% ever wear white, and I don't think I've ever seen anybody in solid white (eg, without a blue jacket or pants or something).

This is how it is at my hospital in Wichita, KS. Most of the nurses wear a combination of the light blue/white colors. White pants with blue top or any combination. Or all blue is popular. Don't see all white much.

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Specializes in Neuro, Cardiology, ICU, Med/Surg.

I've already posted my opinion about this in this post: https://allnurses.com/forums/f8/all-white-uniform-dress-code-269224-2.html#post2560697

and this one:

https://allnurses.com/forums/f8/all-white-uniform-dress-code-269224-4.html#post2561672

It has less to do with keeping the uniforms clean than it does to do with me not wanting to look like the good humor man (or the Michelin Man).

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Specializes in Rodeo Nursing (Neuro).

My facility has nurses wear white and/or royal blue. I'd prefer navy, but at least it's not pink. My uniform of choice was Crest cargo pants and a zip up top, both royal, but I kept my NS white pants for emergencies. That reminds me, I need to laundry today. Anyway, my Crests are getting worn out and no longer available, so I've gone to Landaus. Their 7-pocket white pants are reasonably opaque, and have belt loops! Yay! I'd wear them with the white tops if I had to, but prefer the blue.

Nice thing about whites is that you can bleach them. And some nurses I work with wear all white--males and females. They look pretty sharp, but I'm afraid I'd have that Stay-Puft look.

Maybe I'll ride my bike to the laundry.

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I like white scrubs. The throwback to earlier times is not a bad thing either. I sometimes wear the black bar too. Older patients like it. Don't do it on peds.

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