Quincy Family Practice Program
Residents Manual
SIU Physicians and Surgeons, Inc. Employee Dress Guidelines
PURPOSE
To ensure that employees know and understand the importance of appropriate dress in the workplace.
GUIDELINE
Employees should be suitably groomed and appropriately dressed so as to portray a professional image for SIU Physicians & Surgeons. Standards of dress in the clinical community should parallel those in the business/professional employment setting. Good judgment should be exercised to ensure appropriate length and fit for a professional setting. Dress shirts and blouses must cover midriff and not display cleavage. Shoes must be worn at all times. You may wear slacks, crop pants, capri pants, skirts, and dresses without hose or socks. Capri pants are allowed only on casual days. Sleeveless blouses and shirts of a professional nature and good taste are acceptable in non-clinical areas. All faculty and staff should wear lab coats and/or shirts with sleeves when in a clinical area. Dress standards may affect the health, safety, or actual work performance of employees, co-workers or department clientele. Protective clothing or other appropriate dress may be required in some work areas for the protection and safety of employees. All clothing and footwear must be clean and in good repair. Close-toed shoes must be worn at all times in areas where blood or body fluid spills are possible as well as potential exposure to sharps. This includes all laboratory and patient care areas and applies to all faculty, staff, and students who walk into these areas (including reception and clerical). “Clog-type” shoes are acceptable as long as the toe is closed. Employees are expected to maintain high standards of personal hygiene and cleanliness. Use of personal care products (i.e. perfumes, colognes, aftershave, hair care products) should be minimal. Employees may be asked to discontinue the use of personal care products which are offensive to others should complaints be made.
Appropriate professional dress includes:
- Slacks
- Skirts
- Suits
- Dresses
- Jackets or sports coats
- Denim skirts, jackets, dresses, or jumpers - if free of holes and not excessively faded.
- Collared shirts
- Nursing uniforms including white leather shoes
- Cropped (flood) pants
The following items are unacceptable dress for any work area:
- Sweatpants
- Sweatshirts
- Miniskirts
- Halter and tube tops
- T-shirts
- Shorts
- Leggings or leotards
- See through clothing
- Jeans (denim or colored)
- Low cut or midriff blouses or dresses
- Capri pants
- Skorts and dress shorts
Jeans and tennis shoes may only be worn by staff whose work requires casual dress, approved by their supervisor, and who are NOT in a clinical work area and/or other direct patient care area and/or have public contact. Sweatshirts and T-shirts may be allowed with supervisory approval.
Nursing staff who wear street clothes should follow the same dress guidelines and wear a lab coat and name badge if duties require them to be in the clinical area.
Should employees choose to arrive for work dressed inappropriately according to the guidelines established above, they may be sent home to change clothes. Repeated infractions shall result in disciplinary action.
Effective: 7/1/99
Revised: 10/1/99, 9/19/02, 4/3/03, 8/7/03, 7/18/05
Approved by Clinical Operations: 9/19/02, 4/3/03, 10/23/03
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