HIstory of nursing uniforms

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

hi all i think the best uniforms for nursing would be a light breathable blouse in a sensible colour like navy for example and either black or navy pants/skirt. i need to wear a white shirt which is totally impractable in aged care, and my placement shirt i gotta wear on clinicals is burgundy polo shirt but its quite heavy. so there should really be a balance. i dont thnik the wear anything approach is good idea in nursing as staff can be mistaken as visitors and theres also someone who'll wear something totally inappropiate

I work for Qld Health and we have the 'libra fluer' uniforms hehe as they are more affectionalty and embarrashingly known as. Now i just started there 2.5 months ago and STILL dont have a uniform. I swear I couldve sewd it myself in this length of time. And apparently the hospital are brining in a new unifrom, but no one has any idea what exactly it looks like or when we'd be getting it, even the manufacturer, who are hopeless! But they reckon the bottoms will be charcol grey........and pinstripe shirts......

Now my ward has polo tops with a logo on it, and one of the CNs is putting in an order for them next week, and apparenlty they get made really quickly. Sadly most of us have to get the mens sizes...whats with manufactors not making them right!!!

One of my housemates works in ICU and they are apparently getting SCRUBs, A&E wear green scrubs...most wear them home but i think it would be kinda embarrashing doing that..espe when they are green. Theatres have blue scrubs whihc i like...

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