White uniform dress common nowadays?

PennyLane, RN · Jul 30, 2004

I'm sorry, but I find the dress downright icky. I want to be comfortable when I work, not worrying about getting runs in stockings or if I should cross my legs when I sit down. And I don't think that the scrub top makes that model look larger. But perhaps a solid top would be more slimming?

As a student, I detest wearing white, but I realize it's important to set us apart from the nurses. As soon as I graduate I'm burning my uniforms!

SmilingBluEyes · Jul 30, 2004

I wear company-issed scrubs cause we circulate our own csections. they don't look perfect, but I can't say unprofessional either. The doctors wear the same thing....

Altra, BSN, RN · 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.

ITA ...

So how come the guys in the meat dept. of the grocery store are always in white???? It always looks gross to me ... :chuckle

At the two hospitals where I've had clinicals so far, I've spotted one nurse who is always in a white dress, though it's not quite as fitted as the one in the picture of the OP. She's very slim, and the dress is kind of roomy on her, so I suppose she's comfortable enough - apparently it works for her. But I can't imagine it for myself. I do see a handful of nurses who are always in white - scrubs, some kind of t-shirt or turtleneck, or a short jacket.

I can't wait to get out of my student uniform - these pants with the giant waist band & permanent front crease make my hips look slightly larger than the hips of your average water buffalo. I drool over catalogs with drawstring waist pants, and colors like royal blue, green & burgundy. Someday soon ...

BabyRN2Be · 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!

Ditto. Stand too close to a mom who's delivering and you'll be right in the line of fire for some prime birth glop. Imagine having to get THAT out of white on a daily basis. :eek: Makes for high uniform bills.

All_Smiles_RN · Jul 30, 2004

I can't wait to get out of my student uniform - these pants with the giant waist band & permanent front crease make my hips look slightly larger than the hips of your average water buffalo. I drool over catalogs with drawstring waist pants, and colors like royal blue, green & burgundy. Someday soon ...

Mlos, you had me rolling with that comment. :chuckle

...Jennifer...

obeyacts2 · Jul 31, 2004

Around here, proper dress for work varies widely depending on facility. Hospital A, white bottoms and colored tops. Hospital B, whites except for ER, LD and so on. Local rehab hospital: RNs wear burgundy and white, and the CNAs there get scrubs of whatever pattern they desire. Home health: most agencies, street clothes with white lab coat, hospice: whatever they feel like, apparently. No obvious dress code there except for the HHAs. I find it interesting, that hospital B, with its whites only rule, its sister hospital 20 minutes away in the next town, has anything goes as far as scrubs- the funky dancing frogs, cartoon characters,etc. Their nursery ppeople all wear pink striped smocks that remind me of waitresses tho. ICK!!!!!

wishingmary · Jul 31, 2004

At the hospital I work, they tried to make us go all white and one floor actually did but because of the nursing shortage and the outcry against all white, the other floors put it on a shelf.

The hospital says that research proves that patients and the public like to see the all white for nurses because everyone wears the print scrub top; patients can't tell who is who anymore.

I found this to be true as an aide floating to another floor. I had to ask staff members if they were an aide or not so I could get some help. Now that I'm a nurse, I voluntarily wear white pants with a solid shirt and a button-down print short-sleeved scrub top that I wear like a jacket. One look at the pants and the little RN pin that holds my name badge, no one has to ask who I am. I think the jacket look over the white pants looks very professional. I hope they go to that than the all white.

cannoli · Jul 31, 2004

The hospital I go to requires all the agency to wear white, that's everyone, nurses and aides.

You don't suppose they're trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes, do you, letting the patients think that all those people in white are nurses?

NurseRatchetSr · Jul 31, 2004

Geez, it ain't a fashion show, ya know.....

FutureIsBlue, LPN, LVN · Jul 31, 2004

The question is not supposed to be serious. I asked the question just for fun.

RN4NICU, LPN, LVN · Jul 31, 2004

The hospital I go to requires all the agency to wear white, that's everyone, nurses and aides.
You don't suppose they're trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes, do you, letting the patients think that all those people in white are nurses?

I would bet that's exactly what they're doing.

Boo439 · Jul 31, 2004

White is only required for nursing school down here. I wear SpongeBob SquarePants scrub tops every day. I enjoy making my patients smile. I always get compliments about wearing tops that are bright and cheery or I hear how my patien'ts grandchild LOVES SpongeBob. I don't even work in Peds, I'm just a HUGE fan of the show. If I had to wear plain scrubs I would probably feel boring...