White uniform dress common nowadays?

Katnip, RN · Jul 30, 2004

Some, very few facilities require nurses to wear white. I don't know if any of them can require dresses.

Most places allow scrubs; some places do require that the scrubs be color-coded according to unit. Some departments require that you wear the hospital-owned scrubs--OR, L&D for purposes of infection control.

Nurse_Ben · Jul 30, 2004

I refuse to wear a dress.....it makes my legs look so hairy!! :roll

SmilingBluEyes · Jul 30, 2004

The ONLY time I wore a uniform dress was a fancy white one to my pinning. NO WHITE since.

June55Baby · Jul 30, 2004

No requirements at our facility regarding color of scrubs and my required dress code is business casual. In the past, I've worn everything from white dresses (with white hose and cap) to hospital provided wrinkled blue scrubs.

The argument against white for many is that white would make them look big, but look at the pictures. Not only is the dress more professional looking, it is so much more slimming. Pantsuit tops made in this style would be slimming as well. The scrubs make this obviously slim woman look much larger than she actually is. Scrubs are not professional looking. AND everybody wears them from the hotel maid to the hairdresser.

IMHO Scrubs just look like you wore pajamas to work... and no other professional (lawyers, bankers, business people, even MDs) wears their pjs to work.

karenG · Jul 30, 2004

over here you only wear scrubs if you work in theatre! we wear uniforms which often look like the top pic.. mine is like that but in navy blue with white piping round the sleeves and collar. uniforms tend to denote your grade- lilac is HCA, pale blue is staff nurse and navy is sister grade. some of us are moving away from wearing uniforms- I dont always wear one- it depends on the level of clinical work I am booked in to do... I dont want to do dressings in my own clothes!

Karen

Katnip, RN · Jul 30, 2004

I haven't heard the argument that white makes you look big. I have heard, and I do agree in a lot of cases, that it gets dirty very easily. It's harder to clean unless you get them in very expensive stain-resistant fabrics. White tends to turn gray over time and you have to use special laundering techniques. Those are the most commong I've heard.

SmilingBluEyes · Jul 30, 2004

wearing white in labor and delivery is like wearing it in a slaughter house. You wear the uniform best suited for the job. White does NOT look professional OR nice if it's less than pristine. And FEW keep it that way. That and I don't care to see what color and type of underwear folks are wearing...w/white it happens all the time.

RN4NICU, LPN, LVN · Jul 30, 2004

whenever i see someone wearing all white in my facility i think - student, lol

quite literally nobody else wears all-white and nobody wears dresses.

in the current state of nursing - 12 hour shifts being the norm - could you imagine having to spend those 12+ hours in a dress and hose? ugh! think about it. most workplaces that have "business dress" (which are becoming fewer and farther between with the trend toward the "casual workplace") are almost always 9-5 and they do not spend 12-13 hours in their clothes. they most certainly don't do any type of physical activity. sweat stains on a white dress are a very ugly thing, but with nurses dashing up and down the halls for the "i want this and i want thats" or, like me, in a nicu that must be a certain temperature to keep the babies from becoming hypothermic (plus the heat from all the radiant warmers - it's like the tropics!) no - all white would not be pretty.

RN4NICU, LPN, LVN · Jul 30, 2004

An afterthought - I would like to see a more professional styling of scrubs. They do look like sweats, or pj's or something you would expect to see a scrub-woman wearing. I do not think they invoke faith in our professionalism, considering you can buy them at your local walmart and you see everyone wearing them

some folks (esp. those who see us go by, but don't talk to us) have got to be wondering if we just stopped off at walmart and picked up some scrubs or if we are ACTUAL nurses - especially if you happen to forget your nametag :uhoh3:

We could wear slacks and polos rather than dresses or pj's. In fact, i tend to wear a polo with "scrub style" slacks as scrubs make me look overweight and sloppy when I am not. I take pride in my appearance, but I do my job more effectively when I am comfortable and not constrained.

One style that I absolutely loved, but am no longer able to find, are the one-piece pantsuits that cherokee and crest used to make. They looked SO much more professional that the crap you can get today (which, you can tell is made to be cheaply produced - yet for what they are, they cost way too much)

BittyBabyGrower, MSN, RN · Jul 30, 2004

We wear white bottoms and whatever tops. I hate the white..it is icky and let me tell you, when a kid up-chucks one of those fine special formulas on you, well, you may as well kiss that pair of slacks good bye!

RN4NICU, LPN, LVN · Jul 30, 2004

We wear white bottoms and whatever tops. I hate the white..it is icky and let me tell you, when a kid up-chucks one of those fine special formulas on you, well, you may as well kiss that pair of slacks good bye!

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