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.

Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
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.

Are nursing jobs plentiful in your area? Employers would have to be lined up outside my door, asking to hire me, before I'd quit over what I wear to work.

It would be a deciding factor, but not the deciding factor ...definitely a strike against the employer.

This one is a no brainer. :nurse: ALL nurses should have to wear a traditional white dress uniform, complete with the little white and red nurses cap. (including the men) Lets face it girls (and guys), the only one in the hospital of any real importance is the physician. Doctors have all the power and earn about 50 times as much as we do. We should all be down on our knees kissing their doctor bums and thanking them for letting us do all the work on their behalf.

If white uniforms were somehow connected with crappy management, nasty coworkers, and over all poor morale/working conditions, then yes.

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
I started in white...head to toe white....and a cap. My manager would carry white shoe polish in her pocket and make you polish your shoes on break if they looked "dirty"..... no I wouldn't quit. I wouldn't be happy but I wouldn't quit.

This would have been my response had you not already posted it; I started out that way, so, no biggie. But, now, I tell ya, if they mandated PANTYHOSE, I'd run out the door screaming! :nono:

Specializes in ICU.

I probably wouldn't, but it would require so much extra purchases - more skin colored bras, more skin colored underwear... I would need more white undershirts. And a pair of white shoes if they mandated shoe colors. Most of my socks are dark-colored, so they would show through scrubs, too. Not to mention white is a horrible color on me because my skin tone is so pink.

Now that I think about it more, I might just quit over white scrubs.

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.

No. The problem would be self-correcting as people with well water, body fluids, etc. ruined the white uniforms and guests complained that their waiters and maids looked dirty, lol

I'd rebel and wear leopard-print man-thongs, though.

Specializes in Critical care, ER, stepdown, PACU, LTC.

I did quit a job because they were mandating we change to white uniforms. But, it was not the only reason, more of just the last straw, so I got another job closer to home that paid more and let me wear what ever scrubs I wanted.

Quit b/c of all white scrubs ..uhh no.

There are far more pressing reasons to quit. The color mandated scrub doesn't even fall in the top 1000 reasons to quit.

Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.

I'm not much of an appearance person. That's not such a good thing, and I'm definitely not dissing any person who's different than me.

As long as I'm clean, neat, and color coordinated, clothes are just clothes. A uniform is just something I wear to work.

I wouldn't quit if the mandatory color was pink, green, grey, or white.

Like everybody else, there have been whispers about color coding employees where I work.

White is as good as anything else, except aqua. I love the color aqua. I might just fight over that color, but doubt if that even made the top twenty picks.

This would have been my response had you not already posted it; I started out that way, so, no biggie. But, now, I tell ya, if they mandated PANTYHOSE, I'd run out the door screaming! :nono:

I'm another old fogey who started out in real "whites" and had no problem with it. In my experience, nurses got taken a lot more seriously and treated with more respect back when we looked like we expected to be taken seriously.

However, I disagree with you about the pantyhose -- although I'm not wild about them in general, I've always worn support pantyhose when working floors, because my legs feel so much better at the end of the day!

Most of the hospitals in my area require white scrubs. I think it sucks. Our school scrubs included white scrub pants, too- I wore an extra pair of pants underneath them because I don't enjoy people seeing my underwear/rear end. I think the white scrubs symbolize the notion that nurses are chaste/virginal and that's just disgusting to me. I'm perfectly capable of wearing whatever color clothes I choose without people having to be scared and disapproving that I may be an adult person with a normal sexuality. I'm for whatever color scrubs you want to assign me, but not if it's based on something weird like that. I mean, how about making nurses all wear red scrubs to indicate that most of us have menses? Ugh.

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