White uniform dresses

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Specializes in Rehab/LTC.

Does anyone ever wear the old style white uniform dress these days? I will be working in a LTC and rehab facility. I am wondering if wearing the old uniform instead of scrubs would bring a smile to the faces of the older clients. Nostalgia and all that? I kind of miss seeing nurses in these uniforms with the white hosiery and white shoes and white cap on their head. I see dresses in some of the scrub catalogs and am wondering if anyone wears them.

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Specializes in Telemetry & Obs.

Well, they definately still make them...and if you want to wear them and all the associated regalia then it doesn't matter if others wear them :)

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Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.
Does anyone ever wear the old style white uniform dress these days? I will be working in a LTC and rehab facility. I am wondering if wearing the old uniform instead of scrubs would bring a smile to the faces of the older clients. Nostalgia and all that? I kind of miss seeing nurses in these uniforms with the white hosiery and white shoes and white cap on their head. I see dresses in some of the scrub catalogs and am wondering if anyone wears them.

Yep I wear them some, more often white scrub pants and top, and yes I wear my cap...... In LTC it is a blast, and my residents, have fun remembering.......:nurse:

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Specializes in Med/Surge, Private Duty Peds.

i wear them sometimes and the older folks faces would light up with a smile and more than once i heard " look a real nurse" and i also received compliments for looking so professional.

i also have white skirts that i wear with scrub tops and found them very comfortable.

so yes, if you want to wear dresses then go right ahead~

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Specializes in Psych, ER, Resp/Med, LTC, Education.

I think they are just not practitcal as we end up crawing on the floor, squating, crawing on beds......and I am in psych so for me totally not practical. Straddling a patient on the floor in a dress!! LOL that would not be pretty! In LTC maybe you could get away with it. I worked with a woman on a medical floor at the hospital, a little older, and she wore then a lot. But I have to say I have never, in any setting worked with a nurse that wore a cap. That seems a bit tooooo old fashioned. To me going back too far also represents the way nurses used to be treated by docs back in the day and were called nurse maids! lol

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Specializes in critical care, ER,ICU, CVSURG, CCU.

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I think they are just not practitcal as we end up crawing on the floor, squating, crawing on beds......and I am in psych so for me totally not practical. Straddling a patient on the floor in a dress!! LOL that would not be pretty! In LTC maybe you could get away with it. I worked with a woman on a medical floor at the hospital, a little older, and she wore then a lot. But I have to say I have never, in any setting worked with a nurse that wore a cap. That seems a bit tooooo old fashioned. To me going back too far also represents the way nurses used to be treated by docs back in the day and were called nurse maids! lol

Kind of reminds me of a day back in 1979 in the ER of VA-Hosp. Houston, got attacked by a psyc patient, and had to do a one person take down, till help got there, uggggggggggggg remember the length of dresses and skirts in the late 70s yep ...... only thing I was grateful for since neither or the patient or I was injured, was good panty hose............ showed my booty that day:banghead:

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Specializes in NICU, Post-partum.
Well, they definately still make them...and if you want to wear them and all the associated regalia then it doesn't matter if others wear them :)

I think it would bring a smile to their faces...how thoughtful of you!

I have seen some split skirts that are longer...that would give you the same freedom of movement as pants but the look of a dress.

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I sometimes wear scrub skirts and dresses. And yes, the residents love it. I always wear white on the floor. Even the most cofused person knows who I am and why I'm there. Except children - a little girl asked me if I was a doctor. It's a new day.

:)

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Specializes in Rehab/LTC.

Thank you to all for your thoughts on the white uniform dresses. For now, I am going to wear scrubs, but as soon as I diet and exercise back into a size 6/8, I am definitely going to order white dresses (I don't like the look of my size 14 butt in white). I want to look like a nurse! At the facility I will be working, everyone is in scrubs of their choice - RNs, LPNs, CNAs, housekeeping, kitchen staff, etc. I want everyone to know that I am a Registered Nurse and proud of it!

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If it were acceptable to wear a cap- I would. No one wears them anymore...you could tell a nurse from a housekeeper and so on.:typing

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I wear the dress uniform probably 90% of my shifts. When I do full whites, I don't the same level of disrespect from patients that I do in scrubs. I've had people come up to me in the coffee shop and tell how nice it is to see a nurse that looks like a nurse.

I work in a hospital on the rougher side of town and yes, I've wound up on the floor sitting on a patient more than once and never flashed anyone. I've been up on the bed for stretcher transfers and never scared the porter.

Some of my younger, fresher coworkers are showing up in coloured scrub dresses and they are saying the same thing. It doesn't restrict their movement.

The cap, hell, I think I'll bring it out for nurses week. Now how do I keep it on my head?

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I guess, when I pass the NCLEX I should look into white skirts...

:chuckle

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