Do female hospital nurses wear dresses any more?
Or is it common practice to wear scrubs (shirt/pants)?
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They don’t wear dresses in the hospital I work in. Too much bending, pulling, reaching and other actions and Interactions with patients make struggling with a dress too uncomfortable. Plus all the nasty stuff that gets all over them in a single day. They want something they can strip off as they get home and stuff in the washer. If scrubs get ruined, they aren’t as costly as a dress to replace.
I can’t say that I ever remember a hospital nurse ever wearing a dress unless she is an administrator.
They’re still included as an option in the uniform of the hospital I work at (UK) but no one really wears them. More popular are the scrubs with hospitals name embroidered on them.
I don’t think so. My daughter has been a nurse for several years now and as a charge nurse even when she knows she has a meeting with the big wigs of the hospital and knows scrubs will not be appropriate she will opt for slacks and a top rather than a dress because she knows that the meeting will only be part of her day and she will still be expected to do continue her regular job.
I was a candy striper in the early 70’s. We wore red and white striped dresses.
Today I think nurses and docs wear street clothes under their scrubs or just their scrubs. They make some groovy scrubs now a days, too.
Scrubs are way more practical.
Just wandered through the hospital. Nobody wearing dresses.
I can’t even imagine trying to do that kind of work in a dress.
Hmmm. Doesn’t look quite so stupid on your model. :-)
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