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10 Nursing Rules You've Never Heard Of
Marijke Durning | Scrubs Magazine
5. You have to wear a uniform to work in Wales.
Nurses who work in Wales, in the United Kingdom, don’t have to worry about what type of uniforms or scrubs to buy, or if cartoon character scrubs would be acceptable—they don’t have a choice as to what to wear and they don’t have to buy their work clothes. The uniforms are provided to them by the government.
In mid-2010, the country’s estimated 36,000 nurses and midwives began wearing standardized colors, according to their level of nursing. In response to complaints from patients and others being unable to tell who was who, a color code was established:
• Charge nurses or their replacements wear navy blue.
• Clinical nurse specialists wear royal blue.
• Staff nurses wear hospital blue.
• Staff midwives wear postman blue.
• Healthcare support workers wear green.
• Nursery nurses wear aqua green.
aallentown
over 2 years ago
2 comments
Interestingly, I recently noticed several orders preceded by "kindly". As in: "Kindly place an NG to LCWS." And regarding scrubs; I always get very positive responses from patients and their visitors when I wear my "Classic Muscle Car" scrub top.
bwweeks5270
over 2 years ago
42 comments
I will stick with nursing in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!!! I like the Australian law about the English test, we ought to do that here too. I run across nurses from time to time who have abysmal communication skills (poor vocabulary, heavy accent to the point of unintelligibility) r/t English not being their primary language. Can't have this in nursing, lives are at stake!
ninelives
over 2 years ago
922 comments
" I believe that this is a great idea that Wales not only provides uniforms for their medical
personnel,but they," color-code", their staff providing patient services.
***According to the Study of Color Psychology:"The Color Blue"-
"Promotes a general,calming presence,when interacting with behavioral health clients,
especially,those in treatment for Co-Occuring,Dependency Issues.
Once the client is calm,the contact personnel acquires a better understanding / advantage towards
assisting the client to accept his / her need for treatment,thus can establish trust / appropriate
goals for him / her to adhere to / achieve towards their road to recovery ".
***Sometimes...Medical Research for Community Meeting's Presentations does pay-off !
Nine Lives.