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 palais77
- Joined: Jun 2005
- Location: Werribee
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Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:08 am
As part of my graduate programme I am undertaking a project about the history of nursing uniforms. I would appreciate any opinions of whether current nurses prefer the older style cap and dress or pants for males. Or prefer the current trend for nurses to blend in more with the general public rather than a stand out uniform.
Also if anyone knows where I may be able to find some informtion on how uniforms have changed in Australia I would greatly appreciate it.
Thanks
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Darren
- Joined: Mar 2005
- Location: Adelaide
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Aug 29, 2005, 11:03 am
What a great topic palais77.
I am happy to run a poll for you to help with your project. While polls are not statistically valid, it may help with some discussion in your paper. I would suggest options such as:
Would you prefer nurses to wear:
- traditional uniforms
- modern styled colour uniforms
- no uniform
Let me know what question and options you want and we can run it for a month.
cheers
As for me, I am in favour of uniforms that are modern, but distinctive enough to be recognisable as a nursing uniform.
Darren
"It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm." -
Florence Nightingale
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sassygirl
- Joined: Aug 2005
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Aug 29, 2005, 06:32 pm
i am in favour of uniforms, but not the 'medibank' nylon patterned ones they have at our hospital. The best i've had was when, as a group, we designed out own colored polos. they were casual but professional and at least the patients and relatives knew we worked there.
Me, i nursed in the 'hessian dress, starched apron, starched belt, starched collar & cuffs and starched caps day. I've no idea how we bent down to make a bed. I still laugh at my pics.. but then I wish i'd kept my uniform (we were so glad to get rid of them).
sass
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palais77
- Joined: Jun 2005
- Location: Werribee
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Aug 31, 2005, 06:32 pm
Hi Darren,
Thanks heaps for the offer to run a poll I never thought of that. I like the ideas you put forward in your response. I would also like to ask whether nurses are happy with blending in or appreciate the uniform being recognised as one of a nurse.
May be also a question about being involved in uniform choice, does it make you want to wear it when you have been part of the design.
I personally prefer a uniform as I am proud to be recognised as a nurse our uniform is at least abit stylish perhaps that adds to it.
Thanks Kirsten
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priscillasmum
- Joined: Sep 2005
- Location: Melbourne
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Sep 10, 2005, 05:09 pm
In the discussions on other sites/forums concerning uniforms i found that american nurses were concerned that the public do not recognise them as a nurse, because everyone in the hospital wears scrubs , even the cleaners and kitchen staff. They would like something distinct that says to the public that they are nurses. There has been some discussion on american nurses going back to wearing white uniforms. Surely that would be a backward step, white is a very difficult colour to wear as a nurse in a hospital and keep clean. When I trained, many years ago in melbourne, all hospital training nurses wore different uniforms, so you were instantly recognisable as to which hospital you came from. We went to each other's hospitals for clinical experience and met great friends and attended great parties. Interestingly, the interplast team that went to ceylon recently found that the nurses there wore the uniforms that we had worn 20 years ago. So the pictures they took of nurses in the hospital showed them wearing a uniform similar to The Alfred in Melbourne cira 20 years ago. I have spent most of my career in the OR, so I mostly lived in boring scrubs. Currently I am a DON at a day surgery, I needed to purchase some new scrubs for the staff to wear and after discussing the styles and fabric options with the staff we placed an order. The staff really loved having some input into the style and colours that they would be wearing and I frequently hear them saying how much they love the new look.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea - Robert A. Heinlein.
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sassygirl
- Joined: Aug 2005
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Sep 10, 2005, 06:09 pm
Good on you for allowing the staff to choose their own uniform.. a bit of ownership goes a long way.
I was an ex Aflred girl from (a little more than 20 years ago). I can just imagine how the Ceylon nurses must look like. Shame really when fabrics and styles have come so far.
sass
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kimmiejs
- Joined: Apr 2006
- Location: Macon, Georgia USA
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Sep 07, 2006, 08:48 am
Here in the US scrubs are generally the uniform most nurses wear. At my hospital the color scrub a person wear designates their job. RNs and LPNs wear ceil blue or white, nursing assistants and unit secretaries wear burgundy and environmental services wear a different color. I have and will always prefer scrubs since they come in many styles and are easy to maintain.
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Liz
- Joined: Sep 2007
- Location: Brisbane
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Dec 09, 2007, 05:01 pm
Well the hospital Im going to be working at has changed their logo and stuff like that, and at the moment they have just polo shirts which arent really good well I dont think they are 'professional' but as long as they are comfy to wear I dont mind.
With scrubs, I dont see why people go around wearing the face masks around their necks and the shoe protectors outside the theatre, especially in bathrooms! We were told that once you are done with face masks, throw them out, dont put them back on your face etc.
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LizzieW
- Joined: Jan 2008
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Mar 11, 2008, 11:35 pm
lol .... my sister lives in New York and tells me she see's people wearing their scrubs on the subway on their way to work .... very hygenic.
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Liz
- Joined: Sep 2007
- Location: Brisbane
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Mar 12, 2008, 12:37 pm
Definately hygenic isnt it? But yuoud hope that they change. Sure tehy walk around the wards and stuff in scrubs but then they put on 2 more layers i think...
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Molly
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Mar 13, 2008, 08:28 pm
I work in Aged Home and we do not wear uniforms. At work it like home environment by not wearing uniforms.
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tropicana
- Joined: Mar 2007
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Mar 29, 2008, 12:27 pm
I think uniforms are a great idea in that the role a nurse plays is legally defined. Therefore nurses need to be easily identifiable.
I have worked in psych wards, where the staff wear anything. They have to hide their ID because of the risk of them being used as weapons. So how does one figure out who they are?
But why hospitals don't use scrubs I don't know. They are practical. They are easily washed. And you can get patterned ones for say kids wards.
Re: ppl wearing scrubs outside the hospital. What is the difference between scrubs and uniforms?
Our uniforms are polo shirts. They have no identifying logo. I have seen patients wearing very similar ones. The only difference is that we have our ID badges. Definitely a security risk...
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