Yes I love it!

I don't go for fashionable but comfort, practical applications and functionality.  I am not there to do anything but work.

well i like that they have more color to them

I still have not seen much  nursing attire that I  would  deem  fashionable.  Scrubs look like pajamas, and  really  belong in the OR.   How are we suppose to  look  professional  and gain the  respect and  confidence of our  clients if we are wearing scrubs.  NAs, housekeeping , dietary all wear scrubs.  Just  because they are different  colors does not mean a  thing.  I work in Critical  Care.  We all know it is a difficult job.  I  feel that  walking into a  patient's  room in well designed, well fitting clothes that are still practical inspires confidence and respect from our patients and their families.I think it also  inspires confidence and respect in ourselves.

I, too graduated in a white uniform, cap, Clinic shoes and white pantyhose.  I remember how wearing the cap was a privilege that one had to earn.  There were some wonderful traditions such as capping ceremonies and being pinned at graduation by the Dean of the school. But I am waxing nostalgic with descriptions of a time 'gone with the wind'.

Today's colorful scrubs, which moved out of the OR/PACU into the mainstream of nursing have been tasteful and appropriate so long as one makes sure to get a correct fit and not let the boobs hang out (like on TV).

Still, I wish that there were a standard, obvious way to identify RNs from techs and other personnel. The 'hang tag' ID cards are turned around most of the time and dangle onto patients' beds in the same way that a doctors' tie does.  Perhaps one particular color of top or jacket for RNs ONLY could be made standard.

I recently was an inpatient for 3 days in the nearby large medical center and could not read name tags, bulletin boards, the clock or anything else without my VERY strong eyeglasses on.  Who wants that when you are dopey from painkillers after knee surgery?

The hospital I work for currently does not have a standardized scrub color for each level of education and ancillary personnel, but we'll be doing that within the year.  On one hand, I'm a little frustrated because I am 5 months out of school and just spent quite a bit of money on scrubs that I'll only be able to wear for a while longer.  But I agree with the poster who said that it's nice to just get up and throw on the next set of scrubs in the closet because they're all the same.  As far as patients being able to determine who is their nurse, in the 10 years as a CNA, 2 years of clinicals and 5 months as an RN, I have learned that if you develop a good rapport with your patient early in the day, see to their needs in a timely manner and go the extra mile to make their recovery comfortable, they have no problem remembering who you are.  My hospital has a practice of hourly rounding, where we make a point to be in the patient's room each hour to make sure their pain is under control, they are assisted to the toilet if necessary and their position is changed.  I have found that the patients whose nurses do the hourly rounding know exactly who their nurse is, and will even recognize him/her the next day in different scrubs.  Standardizing the color of scrubs isn't going to fix the problem of people not knowing who their nurse is, that's the nurse's problem of not keeping good contact with the patient. 

Yes, I like scrubbs but I would like to be able to get them in a high quality 100% 8 oz white twill instead of flimsy polyester or poplin. Years ago a company by the name of "Cotton Scrubbs" made the greatest pair of scrubbs but they are no longer in business. I have worn those scrubbs out and would really like to replace them. The quality just isn't there now.

It's not just that the patients might bot know who's who -

Sometimes you work on a floor you're not familiar with, or per diem in a facility for the first time. If I need a housekeeper, maintenace person, aide or nurse, I want to be able to spot one easily by uniform color from a distance, without getting up close and asking or trying to read nametags.

heck ya i like it....why shouldn't i look fashionable and feel good about the way i look

I do like all the new styles and colors, but I always wear scrubs, plain o blue scrubs.

Like the "wise ole owl", I graduated in white and the last class to be capped. I have never worn my cap professionally. I love the comfort of  the scrubs, but I do think it is confusing to the patients. My facility gives us the option of our own scrubs or they provide the standard light blue. The thing that bothers me are those that take the scrubs home and wear them in. Isn't the idea to leave dog & cat hair/food stains at home and not carry them to the hospital and leave the germs/bacteria/etc at the hospital and not carry them home?? Plus they get wrinkled and you look like a slob.

yes of course.i love it.

I am a nursing student and we wear robin egg blue colored scrubs. I am a crease freak! I put starch in mines too. I feel that I have to work harder to look nice and professional because I am a curvy lady! LOL! Even when I am doing my hospice work I work hard to make sure that those scrubs look very neat as well. Patients see everything about you and take seriously upon first impressions....especially geriatric patients. LOL!

I am not sure yet about the solid colors for of 14 of the 21 years as an RN, I was able to  wear whatever type of scrub as long as my badge stated I was an RN. Now we have been bought out by another company and they want the RN's (unless surgery or maternity) to wear all black scrubs with no color trim (I tried) and white very clean shoes only. So we shall see for I know the patient's always seemed to enjoy the butterflies and lighter colors I wore for they said it cheered them up and they knew I was an RN by the extra tab on my badge in florescent pink (management gave us) to let them know I was an RN. We aren't even allowed to wear different colors under the scrub tops as t-shirts or long sleeve shirts. I am not used to black so I may really feel goth-like until I am used to it.

i love dresses and my gfs joke about i should get a scrub dress and rock it out with my compression socks lol i told them dont tempt me...we will see what happens pics maybe to come lol