Would you quit over white uniforms?

If your facility went back to white uniforms for licensed nursing personnel, would you quit? Just wondering as I've heard discussions about some facilities going back to all white for nursing staff.

I would not quit.

However I am truly the snark monster around here. My protest would be in the form of trying to get all of my friends to wear bright colored flowery or zebra striped panties under the scrub pants. I think management would change back to dark blue pretty quickly! :-)

Or they could write you up for not following dress code. They can be funny that way(and I don't mean as in Hahaha funny either)

Specializes in ICU, PACU.

I would absolutely quit. I would not have even gone into nursing school if I had to wear white then...

I'm on the fence.

I think this would be a symptom of the administration's basic disregard of nurses, and I would probably leave.

However, I am agency/travel, so I wouldn't have to put up with it long in any case. I would just finish out my time and request to be made "Do Not Return."

Hmmm. I may have a different view if I was dependent on a single facility for my paycheck. (Probably not, I can be a jerk about lost autonomy and perceived condescension.)

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

I know a big, big fella who went through school for his ADN , and he made sure that white was not a requirement before he would even apply to a place. He gets boils on his upper, inner thighs every so often. He has to not only wear a large-size bandaid, but he also places thin self-stick sanitary napkins on the inside of his pant legs to cover all the bases if there is drainage that the bandaid can't handle.

I'd bet that if his place of employment made white mandatory, he'd be one of the first one's out the door, poor guy.

Bully alert!!!!! Just kidding, that's what some may think reading this hahahahaha :D

I can see your point but you want a knowledgeable nurse not just a fashionable one.

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
Yeah those need to be covered. Don't need to see those. Exposing tattoos on your your own time but not when you are on the clock.

I didn't really care about the tattoos, it was kind of a juxtaposition with the capri's and the tattoos. Like, I was imagining someone like Annette Funicello, who frequently wore stylish capri's.

I didn't really care about the tattoos, it was kind of a juxtaposition with the capri's and the tattoos. Like, I was imagining someone like Annette Funicello, who frequently wore stylish capri's.

No problem. capris are great. I wore the when I lived up north in summer. Now I live in the south. We still have to wear long pants in 90º+ heat.UGH!!:***::no:

Specializes in ICU.

Back in Annette Funicello's day, they were called pedal-pushers, or clam-diggers.

Back in Annette Funicello's day, they were called pedal-pushers, or clam-diggers.

Dorkus Americorifice: The Difference Between Capri Pants, Crop Pants, Clam Diggers, Pedal Pushers.

Specializes in ER.

It depends. If I get written up because my scrub pants may be gray from walking through the sludge in winter that's in the parking lot, then maybe. My normal pants are "short" and I get white salt on it. Another downside is that white is usually see through to some degree. The heat is **** and usually boiling hot. Wearing extra layers so not to show my undies is not appealing.

Good grief ladies..You haven't figured out yet how to manage to keep your menses from staining your clothing...really...really? You're clutching at straws and throwing out red herrings!

There are tons of products out there to protect your clothing... including liners, lightweight water proof underwear etc etc. You double up...use both tampons and pads..and liners and waterproof garments. You do what it takes regardless how heavy your menses!

It doesn't matter what color you wear..the staining you allow to penetrate your clothing is visible to the rest of the world....and so is the offensive odor you carry around on those 'dark' pants!

No nurse who can't/won't/doesn't handle her personal hygiene, not to be visible during menses, whether she is in shorts, a swim suit, tight jeans ..or a white uniform...quite frankly should be ashamed that she has so little respect for herself that she can't figure it out...and do what is necessary to prevent accidents from happening.

Sorry, that '"menses' argument is so bogus, mostly used to try to embarrass and intimidate the members of the administration :-)

Any woman, nurse, who can't find some way to handle what women for hundreds of years have managed...to prevent soiling their clothing, whatever color, or revealing the state of their menstrual cycle through improper attention to detail ...has a real problem and isn't trying hard enough.

Your grandmothers did it with torn rags which they washed by hand with a wash board and managed to maintain their personal hygiene and their dignity.

Women today have hundreds of products to manage all levels of menstruational flow, even perimenopause, ....which includes appropriate medication to manage any problem that does not require surgery!!!

Sorry...good try though :-)

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