The Matron of days gone is long gone even though many people are barely aware of it. One thing everyone knew though was that the Matron was always identifiable as being different from the other nursing staff by having a different Uniform. And woe betide any nurse found slacking as that uniform did it’s rounds.
The matron and her uniform have of course been resigned to the dustbin of history, but much else changes within our hospitals without the knowledge of our generally healthy public.

Nursing uniforms have changed a lot over the years to the extent that most people don’t really know what to expect a nurse to be wearing when they turn up in hospital. Depending on the department the specialism or the seniority of the nurse there can be any number of variations. From a brightly coloured and printed uniform in a modern Pediatric department to the scrubs used in surgery and in some emergency departments.
Several interesting studies have looked at the relationship between uniform styles and perception of nurse professionalism. Interestingly it seems that as we get older we like our nurses to wear more classical nurses styles. That is dresses in solid white or solid colours with white tops. I suppose this reflects our stylized expectation of what a nurse should look like. Which explains our expectations of what a nurses uniform costume will be like for Halloween. Ultimately it’s patient care that means the most.

Now that stereotype of the cutesie nurse uniform is in reality dead for several years. For some time now the practicality of the nurses job and their comfort have been prioritized over tradition. This has made for a new ranges of comfortable, practical uniforms of various different types for different purposes. It also means that different institution’s uniforms can be made more unique to them. Of course this is really how it has always been. Nurses uniforms have never been static things really. One does wonder if “retro” will ever be a theme in uniform fashion as it in fashion in general.

On a note of returning to past uniforms it is interesting to see the revival of the Matron in English hospitals and it does make me wonder if we might see a new category of nurses uniforms for a new modern Matron. And that perhaps we might once again see the revival of the Matron to kick our hospitals into shape.
If we do we’ll all get to say that famous Kenneth Williams line…
“Ooooooh Matron!”

It has been a while since the last news update but we were waiting for your ideas for an updated website. We want to thank all of you who made suggestions concerning our nurses-uniforms.

Many of you have given us several ideas regarding the functionality of the site and we will try to incorporate many of these suggestions to make the site nursinguniforms.ie easier for you to navigate.

In the meantime thanks for your help as we get to work improving the shopping experience for our nurses uniforms.

Nursinguniforms.ie is thinking about making changes to and refreshing our website. We would love your impute and ideas so as to make the site more relevant and easy to use for you our valued customer.

Who better to ask than the our customer base; the health care professional and nursing staff of Ireland. We are open to your suggestions and complaints, all constructive ideas will be greatly appreciated .

What colour nurses uniforms are of interest to you? We know very well what colour standard nursing uniforms have to be; we have after all been supplying the Irish healthcare industry for more than 30 years. But what do you, the nursing staff want to wear for the coming year?

Tell us about new styles you would like to see. We are always making changes to our uniforms to keep the look contemporary and up to date.

Finally, we will be offering a 2 free nurses uniforms for the best idea which we will incorporate into our new site.

Put your thinking caps on and by the middle of March we will have made the decision, from your entries, as to the best idea for our refreshed website.

We at Medco nursinguniforms, want to thank all of you in advance for your participation.