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Since when is work about a fashion parade for onlookers?
Well glad you agree that nurses have pretty much abandoned all fashion and just do not care about presentation now, a true decline in that profession. Whether others agree or not, aesthetics are important. We are the ones who have to look at you. Instead of redesigning patient garb to make it look better they decided in downgrading the nurses uniform. Frumpy.
Well glad you agree that nurses have pretty much abandoned all fashion and just do not care about presentation now, a true decline in that profession. Whether others agree or not, aesthetics are important. We are the ones who have to look at you. Instead of redesigning patient garb to make it look better they decided in downgrading the nurses uniform. Frumpy.
Nursing should not be about fashion. The fact that you think so tells me you have wierd ideas about it all. "Presentation" need only be about looking neat, clean, and dressing in a manner that makes you the most efficient in your job. What "people who look at you" think isn't on the radar. If you want to look at something pretty go to a fashion show. Imagine for a minute what the nurses have to look at.... If you want a nurse to tend to your messy, leaky, naked, broken body then you will get what works for them, not what visually appeals to you.
Well glad you agree that nurses have pretty much abandoned all fashion and just do not care about presentation now, a true decline in that profession. Whether others agree or not, aesthetics are important. We are the ones who have to look at you. Instead of redesigning patient garb to make it look better they decided in downgrading the nurses uniform. Frumpy.
You think the nursing profession is in decline because of the frumpy uniforms?? Really??
Well glad you agree that nurses have pretty much abandoned all fashion and just do not care about presentation now, a true decline in that profession. Whether others agree or not, aesthetics are important. We are the ones who have to look at you. Instead of redesigning patient garb to make it look better they decided in downgrading the nurses uniform. Frumpy.
When you come in to my ED having a cardiac arrest I'll be sure to pop back to the lunchroom and change into something white and formal
I don't think I approve at all of the attitude that nurses should be able to dress as they please because they have to put up with 'us'. It is not some privilege or right that nurses offer us for free, it is a service they are being compensated for, and I agree indeed that 'presentation' should be a part of that service.
It is this exact attitude of believing it is about you, oh so if I am having a medical emergency I am too wait, to change a uniform or for whatever reason, and I am sure some patients are ignored, just like that one lady who died in the waiting room while nurses looked about and did not care, sorry it is not about you but it is about the patients, and we should not have to further suffer the fashion atrocity that modern nursing has become on top of the privileged attitude and declining bedside manner.
I will say, there was a great deal of respect surrounding me in my tidy whiteys. I felt authoritative in my young age. And besides that uniform and cap, you walk into a guys room with an enema bag or syringe-boy,you got r-e-s-p-e-c-t !
Hospitals were strict about uniform rules and appearances. I guess comfort and practicality won out. I can not remember when it exactly changed to scrubs (the late 80's perhaps?)
I am all for comfort and whatever works to be efficient in the job (but please,get that hair out of your face-and the patients face too)
And I am not sure that nurses have more physical work now then back then.
We pretty much did it all then. I see alot more help now a days, be it technically or physically.
I foresee future threads, such as Schoolgirls: What Happened to Plaid Skirts and Knee Socks? and Teachers: Can't You Look a Little Bit Hotter? I mean, why aren't all teachers required to wear pencil skirts and high heels?
The change may have been a simple matter of fashion making its way into the industry, but there were probably some general mindsets about health care that also played a role. Over the past few years, it's come to be accepted that the attitudes of those who are sick, their families and their caregivers play a role in the potential for recovery. Sick people simply don't need to be reminded that they're sick. There's no need for the white color or the "swishing" professionalism of the starched uniforms.
This is especially the case for children's wards where the strict dress code has been eliminated in favor of bright colors. When children are sick, the world becomes a frightening place. There's no need to further that image by having the health care professionals also look like scary people. Bright colored scrubs or even jeans and t-shirts are the preferred dress code in many doctor's offices and hospitals.
But what about the professionals? Are they less because of the relaxation of apparel? Most seem to agree that today's health care fashions are not only more physically comfortable, they also allow the doctors, nurses and lab technicians to present a calmer appearance. And the professionalism, they say, exists in the heart and mind of the care giver - not in the clothing.
I foresee future threads, such as Schoolgirls: What Happened to Plaid Skirts and Knee Socks? and Teachers: Can't You Look a Little Bit Hotter? I mean, why aren't all teachers required to wear pencil skirts and high heels?
I realized something while looking at some late nite movie ads.
If only I had kept my plaid skirt/knee socks uniform from Catholic school, and my nurses uniform and cap,,,I could have had a lucrative second career in adult movies.
I foresee future threads, such as Schoolgirls: What Happened to Plaid Skirts and Knee Socks? and Teachers: Can't You Look a Little Bit Hotter? I mean, why aren't all teachers required to wear pencil skirts and high heels?
I would rep you again if I could lol
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