Essentials of Nursing Leadership and Management 6th Edition by Ruth Tappen, Sally Weiss

Exercise 2

The younger nurses in your health-care institution have created a petition to change the dress code policy. They feel it is antiquated and rigid. Rather than wearing uniforms or scrubs on the nursing units, they would like to wear more contemporary clothing such as khakis and nice shirts with lab coats. The older generation nurses feel that this will detract from the nursing image, as patients expect nurses to dress in uniforms or scrubs and this is what defines them as a "profession."
Do you feel that uniforms define nurses? Explain your reason.