nurses
By crazynurse
@crazynurse (7482)
United States
14 responses
@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
19 Jan 07
I know that white must be hard to keep clean, but any color if pastel, will be the same. I like white. It may be old fashion, but it still symbolizes health care in my opinon.
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
19 Jan 07
That is exactly what more and more patients are telling me. I have to wonder if it is because the white uniform looks more tidy? I have tried to look at the nursing staff objectively, and many of the nurse's scrubs are ill-fitting, faded, mis-matched and the like. So I am wondering if the white just looks tidy or if the actual color white is symbolic with healthcare. It sounds like you are saying the actual color symbolized healthcare to you. Of course, I can remember when white uniforms were the rule, there were nurses who had ill-fitting, yellowed and stained white uniforms too!
@sassy5d (118)
• United States
4 Jan 07
As a nurse myself, I find white almost impossible to keep clean. I have to have my pants hemmed because they don't make my size (height). I think I would probably either go broke or insaine if I had to wear all white.
Don't even get me started on the "Nurses looked more professional wearing their CAPS" LOL
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
4 Jan 07
Oh geeze, I totally understand your aversion to the caps! I had to wear them in nursing school and for about a year afterwards...then thankfully they were slowly phased out. I really feal that a nurse's attitude makes him/her professional or not professional much more so than what he/she is wearing!
@loved1 (5328)
• United States
30 Jan 07
I like seeing nurses in colored scrubs. It puts them at a more level playing field with the rest of us. lol What I mean is sometimes a nurse will have to ask fairly personal questions of a patient. The patient may feel less self concious about telling that information to the nurse if they seem like a regular person. I hope that makes sense.
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
2 Jan 07
I appreciate your response! (and your opinion!) I wish more felt as you do! Strangely, patients are telling me that they felt nurses were more professional in white.
@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
23 Feb 07
I think the colored outfits are great and it allows them to still look professional and yet not as stern. They don't seem as remote to me. Now I don't like though when they allow them to wear street clothes and not a uniform of any sort. It makes it very difficult then to tell who is a worker and who is a visitor. I see it a lot in nursing homes more then in hospitals.
@howard96h (11640)
• New York, New York
23 Feb 07
Wearing scrubs has nothing to do with the quality care nurses give. The reason some people complain is because they are so used to it but with time they will adapt to the change. In a hospital setting many physicians and technicians wear scrubs and the nurses should be able to also.
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@stellarjade (1238)
• United States
2 Jan 07
I am a nurse, and I love being able to wear colored scrubs. I work with kids, and I think that they love it too, seeing the different colors/characters. And white is so hard to keep clean. especially when working with kids.
@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
2 Jan 07
Hello! I agree, wearing colored scrubs is wonderful and the children aren't as frightened. However, lately I have had several patients tell me that they "sure wish nurses would go back to wearing white. They looked and seemed more professional." Strange that we seem more professional in white.
@lauriefnp (5109)
• United States
20 Jan 07
I'm a nurse, so of course I'm going to say that we're very credible in colors! Actually, I'm a Nurse Practitioner, so I wear street clothes with a lab coat- hopefully I still look credible! When I was first a hospital nurse we wore all white, but gradually they started letting us wear colored tops with white pants, then colored scrubs. The scrubs they wear now are awesome! If I weren't so old, I might enjoy going back to ICU nursing just to wear purple scrubs with kittens on them- and some of those purple plastic shoes that the nurses all wear. What are they called?
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@armywifey (882)
• United States
28 Jan 07
I don't think the color of their scrubs has any affect on their professionalism at all. I find it comforting especially when they are working with children. I think it puts the children more at ease when seeing a nurse wearing cartoon charters or happy designs. I would rather have my children seeing that then the sterile white of the old uniforms. It makes them less intimidating.
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@mamabulldog60 (351)
• United States
5 Jan 07
I wore street clothes most of my career and I know I was every bit as professional as scrub werers colored or white
@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
5 Jan 07
So you are saying that profesionalism lies in one's demeanor? If so, I agree!!! Tahnks for your reply!
@marief2rnurse (2704)
• United States
19 Jan 07
White looks clean and tidy but having to deal with blood sometimes, it's better not to wear white. And I'm sure scrubs are more comfy.
