Nurses: about when you they stop wearing dresses?

[monkeyboy]

Was watching and old movie where the nurses wore dresses and the hat (think that showed what school they attended).

About when did the go to scrubs?

 

[minkydog]

I wore dresses almost exclusively until 1990. Cap, too! In 1990, I started working in the NICU, so it was scrubs and NO CAPS from then on. Personally, I liked wearing white dress, hose, and cap. I never had anyone mistake me for the janitor.

 

[NC State]

I like seeing the white dresses, hoes, shoes and hat. I always thought they look so "angel" like. As a little girl I thought there were so pretty.

 

[Friendofpluto]

Wore dress or pants with cap when I graduated in 1981. Then the cap went out the window. Hard to keep sanitized on a hospital setting.

 

[Friendofpluto]

Also with transferring patients (nursing involves quite a bit of lifting), dresses are not practical. Bedside nursing is a demanding area.

 

[Polyluvr]

I only wore that whole sexist get up for my graduation in 1995

I love scrubs and crocs !

 

[LoserMomma]

We still have nurses who prefer to wear the "traditional" whites complete with the skirt and white hose. The patients absolutely love it.

 

[monkeyboy]

We still have nurses who prefer to wear the "traditional" whites complete with the skirt and white hose. The patients absolutely love it.

 

[jaminmd]

I still wore them up until 1993. I only wore a cap as a student nurse, never as a practicing nurse. I always managed to get them stuck in IV tubing as a student so I was pleased that we didn't have to wear them.

I looked rather adorable in my white dresses.

 

[HippieChickadee]

They don't give caps now a days

My sister wears all white scubs (the pretty ones with embroidery and cute styles) and a pretty embroidered lab coat with her named embroidered in lavender.

She's the only RN in the facility she's in that does that and the residents/patients (it's half nursing home half rehab) love it!

 

[dakcp2001]

It's just not practical. Whites show all the blood, vomit, poop,and phlegm we go home covered in. scrubs get washed separate, on hot and have their own hamper. Shoes don't come in my house.

 

[johnsontrio]

My first job was 1984 Nashville, TN. The nurses wore white uniforms, not scrubs, hosiery required even with pants, black or blue sweater only. The nurses on the floor had to wear caps but those of us in the ICU didn't have to wear caps. Very strict guidelines on personal grooming.

The next year I moved to Detroit. Nurses wore scrubs, no caps anywhere, and the multi-colored print jackets. One of the nurses on the floor had bright blue hair. For several years it went downhill from there. The Director of Nursing finally said that the patients were frustrated because they couldn't tell who was housekeeping, nursing, respiratory etc.. The dress code was a little more defined after that.

The hospital I work in now has all Nurses on the floors in navy blue scrubs. All supportive personnel in burgundy, respiratory in black. We all have giant name tags that state RN or whatever our job title is.

Does anyone remember the old school Nursing Capes?

 

[jaminmd]

My first job was 1984 Nashville, TN. The nurses wore white uniforms, not scrubs, hosiery required even with pants, black or blue sweater only. The nurses on the floor had to wear caps but those of us in the ICU didn't have to wear caps. Very strict guidelines on personal grooming.

The next year I moved to Detroit. Nurses wore scrubs, no caps anywhere, and the multi-colored print jackets. One of the nurses on the floor had bright blue hair. For several years it went downhill from there. The Director of Nursing finally said that the patients were frustrated because they couldn't tell who was housekeeping, nursing, respiratory etc.. The dress code was a little more defined after that.

The hospital I work in now has all Nurses on the floors in navy blue scrubs. All supportive personnel in burgundy, respiratory in black. We all have giant name tags that state RN or whatever our job title is.

Does anyone remember the old school Nursing Capes?

Yes but only because that crazy mental patient on General Hospital wore one when she would "escape".

 

[ReneeA]

It's just not practical. Whites show all the blood, vomit, poop,and phlegm we go home covered in. scrubs get washed separate, on hot and have their own hamper. Shoes don't come in my house.

Amen, sister. Before we had an attached garage, I stood in the doorway and stripped down to my underwear so I wouldn't track the nastiness in. Neighbors got a show.

I still remove clothing in the garage- shoes stay in the hospital. All scrubs washed on hot separately from everything else.

 

[Dash&Maggie]

I wore scrub dresses, white support hose and white shoes until 1992 but never wore the nurse's hat except at graduation. My, times have changed!

 

[scrapquitler]

Was watching and old movie where the nurses wore dresses and the hat (think that showed what school they attended).

About when did the go to scrubs?

My grandmother was an LPN, and she retired around 1986? or so, and she wore the white cap, white dress, white hose (which she irone) and white shoes until the day she retired.

 

[Adipoo]

Sometime in the late 70s, the same time we were not allowed to wear our caps anymore, at least in Critical Care.

 

[minkydog]

Amen, sister. Before we had an attached garage, I stood in the doorway and stripped down to my underwear so I wouldn't track the nastiness in. Neighbors got a show.

I still remove clothing in the garage- shoes stay in the hospital. All scrubs washed on hot separately from everything else.

Really? I have never in 36 years of nursing thought to strip outside and leave my shoes at the door. and *gasp!* I washed my scrubs and uniforms with the family laundry. It hasn't seemed to hurt any of us.

 

[chloelovesdisney]

I wore a dress 15 years ago for sure, probably haven't worn one in 13 or 14 years though.

 

[ReneeA]

Really? I have never in 36 years of nursing thought to strip outside and leave my shoes at the door. and *gasp!* I washed my scrubs and uniforms with the family laundry. It hasn't seemed to hurt any of us.

I work stepdown with chronically trached to the vent patients...they are all tube fed and have multiple colonized infections. They are normally only sent to me septic and full of secretions. I come home dirty. Really dirty. I worry about bringing those antibiotic resistant bugs home with me. We just had a RN out with the diff for 4 months.