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 Geriatrics, LTC.
I have yet to find any OB/GYN who will do that surgery for me... and I have asked every single one I have ever met. It's not that easy to get a hysterectomy!

But seriously, maybe I am in the minority, but I don't mind color-coded scrubs. I have worn ceil blue, navy blue, forest green, and teal at various jobs. What I DO mind is white!

Uterine Ablation....Soo very worth it for me. It saved me from all the clothing disasters and from the weakness.

"I got 99 problems but a white scrub ain't 1"......:D

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
Take that back, you just scored a point for the white uniforms! :yuck:

I was aiming for a point for "Let the professionals decide what to wear to work; let's just make sure they have enough of them to do their job safely and well."

Specializes in Short Term/Skilled.

Who would actually quit their job over that?

The rationale behind white uniforms when I worked LTC was that elderly people, especially those with dementia, associate nurses with wearing white, and it was helpful to them. Made sense to me. I think that's generally why places stick with it.

Most facilities that require a specific color or style uniform, will either provide their employees with uniforms or provide their employees a stipend for purchasing your own.

Although I'm not overly fond of white, it's not a deal breaker! Jobs can be scarce and I like where I work! I'd take my stipend and find cute white uniforms!

I would love to quit over much more arbitrary things than white uniforms. The need for money keeps me grounded, however.

Specializes in Critical Care.

Patients should know who their nurse is because it's the person who comes in and says "Hi, I'm your nurse, Muno", typically followed by further discussion and assessment which would establish familiarity. If a facility needs to color code their staff in order for patients and family to know who their nurse is, the lack of color coded scrubs is the least of their problems.

Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I hated whites in nursing school and burned mine when I graduated. They made me look like an appropriate mate for the Michelin tire man. But I wouldn't quit a job over being mandated to wear whites, although I do mind what it stands for (management showing us who's in charge, as if we could forget).

Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
I would love to quit over much more arbitrary things than white uniforms. The need for money keeps me grounded, however.

Yes, of course it does. This is exactly why the current glut of nurses was created by nurse employers and educators. The whole false "NURSING SHORTAGE!" propaganda was the tool used to create the glut.

Prior to the intentionaly created glut of nurses employers knew better than to try to force things like white uniforms on their nurses for fear nurses would vote with their feet. before the glut became very apperent in 2008 employers had to at least act respectful to nurses or risk being unable to keep any working for them.

Now that they have suceeded in creating a glut of nurses they are in the power position. Things like mandated uniforms, lower pay, worse benfits, poorer woking conditions, increase nurse to patient ratios, and degree inflation are being brought to bear.

I guess I'm in the minority, but I would quit. I have a killer cycle, and it'd be a hard sell to tell people I sat on a patient's blood somehow. Again.

I'm only 24 and I wouldn't mind if nursing went back to white. I'm about to be graduating with my RN license in two months and our school doesn't even give a pinning ceremony anymore! I feel that this is an important tradition that I'm being completely left out from. While I wouldn't be happy with a nurses cap, I would wear it with pride!

Specializes in hospice.

I wouldn't quit over it but I'd hate it. My clinicals right now are at a place where all the nurses have to wear white. You can bet I will NOT be applying for a job there anytime soon.

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