How was your nurse dressed when your RT was taken?

Two occasions come to mind where the woman , a registered nurse was not wearing a typical white uniform w/ cap or scrubs.

In one setting the nurse was in a plaid flannel shirt and corduroy slacks. The other nurse was in an ankle length skirt though she had a lab coat on. Both had stethoscopes around their necks. Yes I got my BP taken first on both occasions.

In the mid 60’s, my nurses wore below the knee white skirts, white blouses with a white jacket topped by a red striped hat.

Same here in the 50s. All clinic nurses wore starched white below -the-knee dresses, white shoes and the classic white nurses cap. I remember it like it was yesterday. Nowadays it's all scrubs. It's not that I don't like scrubs -i do. But the starched white uniforms created much more of a sense of controlled formality. Intimidating in its own way.

I had the district nurses coming to see me twice a day for weeks when young and i remember the big red satin lined capes and the blue and white uniforms with the starched caps and the smell of Robin spray starch .

Only once was my rectal temperature taken in a medical setting. That was more than fifty years ago at my last high school physical just as I turned eighteen. The taker was an attractive female schooldoctor. I remember what she wore that day. She had a red miniskirt and a white blouse with several buttons left open under her open white coat. She had splendid legs and small perky tits.

After having retracted my fireskin and palpated my testicles, she asked me to turn around. Then, without further notice, she inserted a thermometer deep inside my rectum. She kept her hands on my buttocks as the thermometer registered.

I felt humiliated to have my temperature taken like a baby at 18.

But the soft touch of the hands of the doctor on my buttocks felt so good that I quickly developped an erection ..

When I had home care from a visiting nurse after surgery in the 1980s, Angie was 23. On her first visit, I still remember she wore her college sweatshirt, nicely tailored jeans, a beautifully printed lab coat, and running shoes. She came from Texas to work in Oregon, and she was darling. i’ve told several Angie stories in past years on this site.

I had undergone facial reconstructive surgery. She had a couple of thermometers in her nurses case, but she asked my husband if we happened to have a rectal thermometer that she could use when she took my vital signs. As a matter fact, we did.

My mother had given us a box of medical supplies when we recently were married, including a glass rectal thermometer that we had growing up. We still have that Taylor thermometer in our medicine drawer and it’s still right-on accurate..

My pediatrician assistant has always a light blue striped nurse tunic with contrast trim collar, pockets and no belt. I remember well her dress when she did the RT measurement, injections or kept me still while the doctor was doing the examination. I saw her with a white scrub only one time, it was for my genital surgery.

My nurse was always in an old school nurses uniform. She had to have been in her 50's back then. The younger nurses mostly wore regular scrubs.