General Discussion

I hated them in high school and I hate them today. After I left my last hospital they instituted a dress code and people had to get rid of most of their scrubs---anything that wasn't navy or white. And they didn't even put in a clothing allowance. That's just stupid. Their "reasoning" was: "so everyone will know who is nursing staff". Housekeeping etc. were color coded differently.

The first hospital I worked at as a traveler was trying to do the same thing. However, they were unionized and the union was just about 100% against it, partially for economic reasons and partially for personal reasons. I never found out what happened there because I left before the vote, but I'm betting the nurses won that one.

Some high school, I want to say it was Evanston or Waukegan, IL, dispensed with dress codes entirely except to say that the body had to be covered from the armpits to the thighs, both sexes, and shoes of some kind had to be worn. It saved a lot of trouble. There were apparently some weird outfits worn in the first few weeks, kind of testing the limits, and then things settled down. I'm for that. People are basically not stupid if given a reasonable limit.