Odisha introduces new dress code for Nursing staff with distinct colours

As per the decision, all the nursing employees (both men and women) will now have to wear scrub suits to perform indoor duty such as ICU, operation theatre and labour room.

However, all the male nursing officers engaged in general wards and casualty services will wear deep navy blue colour formal trousers along with the allotted dress code (shirt).

Further, the female nursing officers, senior nursing officers and assistant nursing superintendent can wear saree or salwar-kameez for general wards and casualty services while the DNS and NS cadres have been asked to wear only saree for such duty, news agency PTI reported.

A full sleeve apron will be provided for all ANSes, DNSes and NSes in general wards while all officers of the cadre irrespective of the rank will have their name and designation inscribed on their uniform, according to the letter.

The decision to change the dress code was taken in-principle after careful consideration of the proposal of Odisha Nursing Employees' Association, it said.

Earlier, the BJP, which formed the government in Odisha in June this year, had decided to paint the government buildings and offices across the state in shades of orange and red. It has also changed the colour of the school uniforms of students studying in classes 9 and 10 in government and aided schools to a combination of light brown, chocolate and clay-baked yellow colours.  

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