| Starting July this year, some 7000 healthcare workers | | | | SquarePants scrubs." |
| will start to shelf their most loved cartoon character | | | | According to the same report, the provisions in the |
| imprinted medical scrubs and fashionable medical | | | | new dress policy do not come from administrators of |
| apparels and accessories as one hospital in Salt Lake | | | | the hospital rather been combed from the employees. |
| City, Utah implemented a rule banning any inappropriate | | | | It also state that it took about 2 years before the new |
| apparels to be used in hospitals. That being said, | | | | dress code has been finally adopted. However, the |
| several practitioners had expressed dismay over what | | | | specific provisions particularly those with regard to the |
| seems to be a conservative hospital rule. The | | | | type of apparel, texture, or color that are accepted |
| University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics adopted a | | | | were not from employees but requested to be |
| rather specific dress code that does not allow denim | | | | included by managers as according to their judgment. |
| skirts, faded corduroy pants, sequined tops, baggy | | | | The managers thought that the old provisions are |
| tops, bigger that 1.5 hoop earrings, and several more | | | | "vague and inconsistent" thus needed to be changed. |
| apparels and accessories. | | | | "I would sometimes see folks with ripped, holey clothing |
| Some nursing forums and online social venues always | | | | that might be stylish in a different setting, or they'd be |
| have topics about uniforms, scrubs, the gadgets and all. | | | | at a counter, showing cleavage," Julie Schmidt, RN |
| And one of the debatable topics oftentimes has | | | | manager of the emergency department and who |
| something to do with the conventional white uniform | | | | served on the dress code committee stated the |
| sets with matching caps against the modern and hip | | | | report. "Or people who like to wear their slippers or |
| medical scrubs. More often, many nurse, especially | | | | flip-flops." |
| those new ones, sided with using the now conventional | | | | The new policy will also categorize the department |
| scrubs as their uniform by advancing its benefits like | | | | according to colors. All nurses will use white tops |
| comfort, easy to clean, and ease to use. This made a | | | | medical scrubs or uniforms with red, navy or black |
| little rough opposition to those who prefer whites by | | | | pants. Those assigned in the pharmacy will be wearing |
| saying that their choice of traditional uniforms will base | | | | olives while EMTs and nurse assistants will be the |
| their professionalism and identity. | | | | ones flaunting with red, navy or black scrubs. To make |
| Going back to Utah, the same reasons were shot up | | | | sure this coding will be obeyed, charts are provided in |
| by the hospitals administration. Primarily, it is about | | | | every nursing room. |
| providing an environment to patients wherein they will | | | | The main reason for these changes is actually |
| feel comfortable and confident that they are taken | | | | decades old. The identity of a nurse is often |
| care of capable hands instead of that nurses' comfort. | | | | compromised and many non-medical hospital |
| "It's a reflection that we take our job seriously," the | | | | employees are often attributed by patients being |
| hospital spokesman Chris Nelson said in the Deseret | | | | nurses or doctors. So to bring back the orderliness, the |
| News report. "It's hard to keep that faith in your care | | | | code is set to fully be enforced this July. |
| provider if the nurse is wearing SpongeBob | | | | |