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Jun 3, 2008 12:45:12 GMT -5
Post by Rivka P on Jun 3, 2008 12:45:12 GMT -5
Post anicdotes here about things like skirts, head coverings and tzeniusizing scrub tops.
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Post by Rivka P on Jun 4, 2008 8:00:46 GMT -5
OK I'll go first.
At first I thought wearing a scrub skirt would be highly uncomfortable and make working difficult. I promised my husband I would just give it a try and have been wearing skirts at work for almost 8 months now. Also in terms of covering my hair, I sometimes wear a tichel, sometimes a cotton parkhurst hat and sometimes a wig. I found a short human hair wig for $60, so I figured it's nice to have that option. Among the weird comments I got from patients: Are you the cook? Are you amish? Are you muslim? What is THAT on your head?
so you may understand why I sometimes opt for the sheital. But truth be told, it's so much less comfortable than a tichel, lately I have not been finding it worth it.
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chanab
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Jun 6, 2008 19:27:14 GMT -5
Post by chanab on Jun 6, 2008 19:27:14 GMT -5
I had some really great instructors in nursing school who were willing to have the hospital order a scrub dress for the couple of us (Jews and Pentecostal) who may have needed them during an OR rotation. In the end the the Pentecostal girls wore pants and they scheduled my day for Yom Sheini of Pesach, but... it's the thought that counts I suppose.
I'm not married so never had the tichel issue, but I did wear my hair back in a braid for awhile and was asked by one patient if I was Native American like her granddaughter-in-law. And living in high Amish-population area I would get that one all the time.
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Jun 11, 2008 12:45:31 GMT -5
Post by Rivka P on Jun 11, 2008 12:45:31 GMT -5
In our OB rotation, we were to wear hospital supplied scrubs (obviously pants) so the 2 solutions I found were: wear the long nursing lab coat over the scrubs or the scrubs provided were so large anyway, the shirts pretty much made it to my knees on their own. I am clearly, not very tall.
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chanab
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Jun 15, 2008 1:27:46 GMT -5
Post by chanab on Jun 15, 2008 1:27:46 GMT -5
LOL! I know that short feeling! My OB instructor was awesome and worked it out that I could bring my own skirt as long as it was the same color as the L&D uniforms. I wore a t-shirt underneath hospital-supplied scrub top and jacket. The only problem I had was when the charge nurse yelled at me that I couldnt wear my t-shirt in the OR (never mind that I had for the first c-section I saw) which was solved by putting the jacket on over it. I remember trying to come up with ideas for my OR observation though and had considered wearing 2 iso gowns to cover front and back! I have a friend who works OB in Chicago and I believe she actually wears pants on the floor.
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Jun 24, 2008 15:50:21 GMT -5
Post by Rivka P on Jun 24, 2008 15:50:21 GMT -5
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Jul 6, 2008 12:49:37 GMT -5
Post by deeniers on Jul 6, 2008 12:49:37 GMT -5
The hospital I work for is totally ok with skirts-- it's actually part of the dress code. The hard part is getting good skirts with BIG pockets! I actually found someone in Baltimore who takes scrub pants and turns them into skirts and puts a kick pleat in the back. I can totally move around in them and they are so colorful!
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Post by Rivka P on Jul 7, 2008 5:26:34 GMT -5
that sounds great, deenie. I may have to have her make me a skirt from a pair of maternity scrub pants! :-) Also, I love my dickies skirt. It has tons of pockets. It may only come in white though. I am not sure, as our dress code at St. Luke's is all white for nurses.
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chanab
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Aug 10, 2008 18:09:37 GMT -5
Post by chanab on Aug 10, 2008 18:09:37 GMT -5
Rivka - how long is that Dickies skirt? I came across it online, but was wondering if it will really still cover everything when I'm sitting on our ridiculously high chairs at work with my legs dangling, or climbing up into said chairs. I've been looking for longer scrub skirts that I can actually move in. If you have any other suggestions...
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Aug 13, 2008 23:01:03 GMT -5
Post by Rivka P on Aug 13, 2008 23:01:03 GMT -5
The dickies skirt that I own definately covers my knees. Well, with the growing belly and all, it's been an obstacle, but I managed. I was shown a short skirt in a scrubs store once. I just said "no thank you!" right away. Oh, I also wear a dress sometimes and people often ask me if that was my nursing school uniform. It certainly wasn't and the dress has been the most comfortable thing in pregnancy. The dress used to cover my knees... now the belly won't let it. Good thing I stopped working a bit ago.
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Sept 2, 2008 20:34:45 GMT -5
Post by Sharon on Sept 2, 2008 20:34:45 GMT -5
Hi, Ive been a nurse now for 2 yrs (Hopkins grad). I have found these skirts from marcus uniforms; www.marcusuniforms.com and they are great, long enough-come to my ankles and have a slit; granted I am short, about 5'1, but they are comfortable with an elastic waist band, pockets, and they come in a lot of cool colors. Just thought I'd share.
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chanab
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Sept 12, 2008 11:51:16 GMT -5
Post by chanab on Sept 12, 2008 11:51:16 GMT -5
Thanks for the link Sharon. I'm actually shorter than you, but a little thicker around the middle and hips, so I find that most scrub skirts ride up more when I sit down. Does the elastic waist tend to bunch up around the waist, some of them do and those are usually the ones I have problems with?
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cganz1
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Tamid B'Simcha!
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Oct 6, 2008 22:55:35 GMT -5
Post by cganz1 on Oct 6, 2008 22:55:35 GMT -5
In nursing school I had to wear an old fashioned nursing dress! All my frum friends in other schools were allowed to wear scrub skirts and my classmates wore blue pants and the uniform top, so I asked if I could wear the shirt with a blue skirt. But, my oldfashioned instructor thought the dress looked classic and since my school had their own uniform dresses they said I had to wear it. I felt like a little girl again. Especially because they made me wear white tights (which was a problem since I kept trying to figure out who sells adult white tights - but Wal-Mart solved that problem). One of my instructors said that if she had her way, I would wear the nursing cap also!!! But, B"H everything worked out and I got used to the dress, it was even comfy. And my goyish were jealous cuz they said i looked cute and they wanted dresses also! BTW that is my pic on the wepage of me showing off my nursing dress
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Post by Rivka P on Oct 8, 2008 9:12:49 GMT -5
on that note, everyone is welcome to send me their pics in their uniforms, or doing nursy things, and I will post them on the website too!
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Nov 6, 2008 12:52:33 GMT -5
Post by medic09 on Nov 6, 2008 12:52:33 GMT -5
Hmmm, I must be the only guy here. But nonetheless interested in any issues of minhag and halacha that are impacted by our profession. When my wife did Path residency, she tried scrub skirts for a while. She hated them. Since she occasionally wears pants anyway (usually with a long something hanging over the top), she simply went to wearing regular baggy scrub bottoms. Blame me for showing her the relevant teshuvot about women wearing pants for utilitarian (work, etc.) purposes. By the time she had gone to FP residency, she had given up on skirts at work for the most part. Mind you, I don't think having to give up on the skirts bothered her that much. She always covers her hair. Mitpahot don't work well for her, because the tails get in the way. She varies between a beret sort of hat that completely covers her hair, and sheitels. During residencies, in the OR, she found surgical caps that worked OK. Now that she is practicing clinical medicine in a pretty controlled environment (office, clinic, and lab at Los Alamos Nat. Labs) it isn't much of problem. The sheitels tend to come out when she is giving a presentation. Says she feels better. For me, of course, there isn't much issue here. I were pants and a t-shirt in the ED most of the time. I work nights, and don't wear a talit katan (not a tzniut issue, of course). When I work days, the tzitzit stay tucked in just to keep them out of the way. When I wear a flight suit, the talit katan is all inside it, anyway. I always wear a kippah. We have an observant MD who does not when he is seeing patients, though he does outside the hospital. There is a school of thought that says maybe an obvious religious symbol might impede good patient rapport.
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