Switch to Royal Blue

So, my work place has decided to change all RN scrubs from navy to royal blue in an attempt to make us appear more professional and 'uniform.' Okay, so this wouldn't be such a huge pain in the ass if the higher ups actually fixed the 'real' problems within the hospital.

Patients do not care what nurses are wearing. They could care less that a nurse's outfit is off gray instead of a crisp navy blue. I've never heard a patient or their family complain that a nurse wasn't wearing the right color and that they didn't look 'professional' enough. They care more about the care they are receiving versus how fashionable their nurse's scrubs are.

In addition to scrub colors, my work place has spent thousands of dollars painting and redecorating the floors within the hospital. This money could have gone to hiring sitters to sit with hostile patients in the ED. This money could have been spent fixing the computers that nurses use and physicians use. They could have also hired techs for floors that are continuously short staffed or paying for another nurse or two to work on the floor so that our nurse to patient ratio could decrease to 5 like we were all promised when we were hired.

But no. Now our walls are blue instead of beige and the floors are fake wood instead of carpet. And nurses, and other professionals, are now being asked to buy new scrubs in an attempt to impress. I bet the people who are quitting left and right are so glad that their place of work is changing their scrub colors. THAT will make them want to stick around and work in a place so horribly managed that they can't even take a break to piss and eat within a 12 hr shift.

And I just love the pretty painted bathrooms. As if I get to see them at all during my entire, bloody shift.

The first thing you learn in nursing school is to prioritize your care. Did management skip this class or were they too busy deciding whether to wear a blue or black suit to class that day?

This is yet another reason why I'll be happy to leave this hospital. I'll be glad to work for a place that cares more about their workers than what they look like on the outside.