I like this nurse
Check out these neat doctor outfits
Um, what about doctors? Don’t a lot of DOCTORS wear scrubs too?
Please. It’s called being practical. Heaven forbid someone who is helping take care of you and possibly saving your life should look “rumpled.”
(Besides, some guys are sexy in scrubs-ever watch ER?)
Professional is in one’s attitude, not one’s attire.
Personally I could care less what the Nurse/Doctor wears as long as they were doing there job properly… I mean if there part of an operation team that is about to perform some life saving operation on you, would you really care if he/she looked like they were wearing a pyjamas? I know I wouldnt!
I have a lot of nurses in my family. My mother and her sister, my aunt, are both retired now, but came up in the “starched whites era”, when a student nurse(female of course) had to stand up when a doctor(male of course) came into the room. My mother was the first in her school(fifty years ago exactly) that was allowed to continue her schooling after marrying. I have two male relatives(and their spouses) who are nurses, and a female cousin who is highly trained in a wide variety of nursing specialties, especially ER .
Even with this range of experience and training, there is one thing even the older ones agree on. Those whites look pretty, but they are expensive and time consuming to care for, and don’t last nearly as long as current hospital garb. With the wide range in colors, prints and styling, scrubs can be attractive and professional as well.
I remember my mother telling me about how, once in training(in whites of course)she leaned against the bed rails of an incontinent elderly patient. Turns out this person had smeared a thin coating of feces all along the railing, and she managed to borrow a “proper” uniform, after much asking around. With scrubs it would have been a lot easier to change, and she would have been back at work sooner.
astro, what the hell? Most of that site freaked me out, til I came across this. Hahaha! Fun-e.
Scrubs are great and the OP is an idiot, but the patterns and colors on a lot of those things really do look ridiculous. My wife is a nurse and gets the catalogs. You should see some of these outfits. Out of a whole 30-page catalog, Mrs. Neutron only saw two outfits that she wouldn’t be embarrassed wearing.
Luckily, most nurses wear plain scrubs, but there sure is some stupid-looking shit out there.
You might not look so hot if you were cleaning up other people’s crap and pee either ;). I’ve worked in a hospital (as a pharmacy tech, not a nurse) and scrubs are a God send. All those pockets, and they are comfy. And some do look nice. Besides if they where those cute little skirt numbers, you’d see there rears all day with all the lifting and bending they have to do…and I dont’ want to see taht 
Mr Kipper is a nurse, and prefers to keep his frilly bonnet & starchy white frock strictly for his leisure time. However, as he is actually part of a scrub team, it makes sense that he wears scrubs whilst on duty.
I spend a lot more time concentrating on my patients than my appearance. I arrive to work clean and well groomed, but by the end of the day my hair is flat, my makeup is gone, and my clothes are a biohazard.
It’s my attitude and my skills that make me a professional, not my clothes.
And thanks to all of ya’ll who are saying nice things about nurses – we appreciate it!
my mom’s a nurse…I have to love them, or I get to be the one see practices shots on 
I’m really sorry that this overworked, underpaid segment of the workforce doesn’t live up to your aesthetic standards. I’m sure that they’re too busy saving lives and generally helping people to care much about your sartorial sensibilities.
If I was in the hospital, I’d rather have a nurse in clean scrubs attending me, you know? It doesn’t take much fecal matter to cause a massive infection in a surgical wound.
FWIW I work in research medicine, and most of the nurses I work with are outpatient nurse practitioners. They dress professionally and are well groomed. They can get away with this because they don’t have to deal with the biohazards present in hospital, hospice or nursing home situations.
If a person is well enough to be noticing and conducting fashion police style criticism on nurses, then perhaps they’d be better off in a high end doctor’s office where the attire is more to their liking?
I spent 2 and a half hours in surgery when I smashed my fibula, and then a day and a half recovering in the hospital before going home. I honest to goodness don’t remember what the nurse’s clothing looked like (scrubs, that’s all that penetrated my poor little pain and morphine addled brain).
Nurses spend 12 hours on shift in my neck of the woods, I’d like to see anyone spend that kinda time in a pair of cotton scrubs and come out looking perfectly pressed and presentable.
(a little cranky tonite, “Charlie” is visiting), but SHEESH!! What a silly thing to be critical about.
Next you’ll be wondering why the guy that fuels your airplane before it takes off smells like Jet-40 instead of Grey Flannel.
My goodness, it doesn’t seem like anyone is going to rush to the defense of this poor but aesthetically sophisticated poster.
I’m not going to either, I wholeheartedly agree that nurses ought to dress comfortably and conveniently.
I’m also interested in the situation outside of the United States. What are the practices? What are the attitudes surrounding those practices?
I personally think comfort is a MAJOR issue for “scrubs”.
Lifting people twice your size, checking the dilation on a woman in labor, cleaning up bodily fluids, taking blood. Would you prefer a mini skirt and stilletos? (Hey! Stop that, we aren’t making a porno here!)
Come on, a person that doing the type of work a nurse does should be as comfortable as humanly possible. The clothes they wear need to lend themselves to a variety of activities (bending down, reaching up, lifting, pulling, pushing).
~J
I never expected to have to thank Czarcasm for anything, ever, but I have to say thank you. Thank you for moving this thread to the Pit.
Francis E Dec, Esq, Deadly Nightlight, and angelabaca, you three shitheads really take the fucking cake.
I suppose that people like my 55 year-old mother just might look like “crap” after working in the ICU of a major hospital for 30+ years. I wonder how you assholes might look after resuscitating someone who tries to die every hour for 12 hours straight? Or after changing the dressings every few hours on someone who has no skin left on their lower body because they were horrendously burned? Just how important do you think that wearing professional, perfectly pressed uniforms should be when you’ve watched more people die than anyone outside of a goddamn war zone?
Try reading Green Bean’s post, if you can. Do you think that her former situation is somehow uncommon? Do you think that people who are doing their best to die are going to be conscientious about keeping their various bodily fluids and wastes all confined to a nice, neat area? Do you think that having to constantly move patients around so you can change dressings, bed sheets, IV bags, bed pans, etc. is not going to cause creases and wear on both clothes and people?
I know it’s probably beyond you mouth-breathing morons to get your fucking priorities straight, but maybe you should try taking some cues from a few of these posts, eh?
You disgust me.
Tell you what, then, darlin’. You go and care for a patient who is unable to do much more than breathe and process food and occasionally sit up. Then go care for a woman who has a colostomy bag and the flu. Then go care for a 4-year-old who does NOT like being pinned down (he’s incredibly hyperactive in addition to having a very high fever and hallucinations) and wants to go running around with whoever else. Then go tend to triplets and their worried parents, the mother of whom is still dealing with some tears and such from the delivery that are going to take months to heal properly. Then … get the picture? They’re not dressed in fucking bed sheets, for crying in the rain. They’re dressed in something that easily identifies them as medical personnel and allows them to move around and get dirty if need be. I’d like to think my father has more important things to worry about, like whether or not all of the balloon was removed from that 8-year-old’s stomach, than whether or not some random shithead thinks he doesn’t look professional enough.
By the way, you can check that big-ass brush with which you painted “I think Americans are just a bit sloppy all around” at the door. Really won’t suit you here.
I was just watching a CNN broadcast from Iraq, and I saw some British soldiers. Man, that was depressing. I remember when they used to march about in these snazzy red coats and tall hats, with these neat-o rifles and foot-long bayonets. Now, they’re all wearing these ugly, rumpled greenish things, with fruit bowls on their heads. And their rifles - you call that a rifle? The thing’s barely 3" long!
What has the world come to.
You’d have probably have had a heart attack if you’d seen one of the nurses that helped with the birth of our daughter.
This woman was wearing a faded olive green t-shirt with faded iron on of I don’t know what. She had on faded, raggedy jogging pants and stained (with crap and blood) birkenstock sandals and black socks with light colored fuzzies all over them. She was also very unfriendly and unhelpful.
The birth went on for something over twelve hours, so by the time things got intense there was another nurse on duty. In scrubs. Clean, neat, friendly, and helpful.
For the record this was in a good hospital in Germany. I do hope the “schlampe” got fired later. We weren’t in any kind of mood to start a pissing contest with the hospital management, though, and didn’t complain.
“Schlampe”?