Nurse leader slams ‘sexist’ dress code draft

A Mid West nurses’ leader has slammed as “sexist and insulting” a HSE document setting out a proposed dress code for nurses and other female staff at five hospitals in the region.

Under a proposed dress code, women working at the Mid-West Regional, Regional Maternity, Regional Orthopaedic, Ennis General, and Nenagh General will be told they should not wear garments which reveal excessive cleavage, or halter-neck tops, micro- skirts, very short mini-skirts, or short tops.

Mary Fogarty, INMO industrial relations officer, said nurses resented the HSE’s terminology, which she described as bizarre.