what are these yellow gowns for?

[meghan91]

i was in the ICU during work last night and the nurse ans nurse extern were wearing these long fabric yellow gowns with stripes down the front of them (if that helps in telling me what they are) the patient wasnt isolation thought because i was not made to gown up before going in the room to take the patient to the floor. I was just wondering why they wore thoes and not just regular isolation gowns like the blue plastic type of gowns?

thanks everyone

[MKS8806]

I should clarify. The doctors performing the section and the scrub nurse all wear disposable sterile gowns. The rest of us (that don't touch the patient) if we are wearing anything that was not laundered in the hospital, have to wear the reusable yellow gowns that have been. Sorry, that was not clarified.

[LegzRN]

Maybe they were on a Soap Suds Enema Mission.

[xtxrn, ASN, RN]

"TRIPLE H on AISLE THREE"....

[tvccrn, ASN, RN]

When I worked in the PICU, those gowns were for the patients on suicide watch.