Socializing after work in your scrubs

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Yuck! Who does this? So my husband and I are on a long weekend in Taos, NM. Friday night we were at a local bar listening to a band. In walk a group of women in their mid-twenties. They appeared to have just gotten off work, as they were all wearing scrubs. They hung out at the bar for several hours, drinking, shooting pool, dancing, flirting with men. Wearing their scrubs. Yuck! Of course, after having a couple beers, myself, I was tempted to approach them and ask if they knew how gross and unhygienic that was, but I'm not a big person, and these women were all somewhat large and could have broken me like kindling, and luckily I hadn't had so much to drink that I was that foolish (my husband, of course, bet me $5 to say something to them).

All I could think of all night was fomites!

Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

many years ago, i was on a date in an upscale restaurant when a man i had taken care of post-op

saw me across the room. he called loudly and enthusiastically, "hey! i know who you are now! i

just didn't recognize you with your clothes on!":o

Specializes in LTC.
many years ago, i was on a date in an upscale restaurant when a man i had taken care of post-op

saw me across the room. he called loudly and enthusiastically, "hey! i know who you are now! i

just didn't recognize you with your clothes on!":o

:o hahahahaha-

yes! there's the solution... go out nude! no fomites to worry about!

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

many years ago, i was boarding a plane halfway across the country from where i lived, new husband at my side. as we dragged our stuff down the narrow plane aisle, a woman jumped out of her seat and flung herself on my husband shouting "now i know you! i just didn't recognize you with your clothes on." it turned out that he had taken care of her mother in our icu, and she was used to seeing him in scrubs. it made things a bit uncomfortable for the rest of the flight, though. people kept staring at me with my shiny new wedding ring and at dh . . . .

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

here in nyc many restaurants/shops will actually ask anyone in scrubs to leave. this happened to a friend of mine when she and several co-workers went out to lunch in scrubs. management stated it made other customers feel ill at ease.

that's a place i wouldn't do business with again.

Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.
Here in NYC many restaurants/shops will actually ask anyone in scrubs to leave. This happened to a friend of mine when she and several co-workers went out to lunch in scrubs. Management stated it made other customers feel ill at ease.

Ill at ease about what? Maybe they should do a swab on the aprons of the cooks in the kitchen. Now THAT would make people ill at ease.

Specializes in Med/surg, Quality & Risk.
Ill at ease about what? Maybe they should do a swab on the aprons of the cooks in the kitchen. Now THAT would make people ill at ease.

They'll be ill at ease when they're having an MI and there are no nurses sitting in the dining room to help them, lol

many years ago, i was on a date in an upscale restaurant when a man i had taken care of post-op

saw me across the room. he called loudly and enthusiastically, "hey! i know who you are now! i

just didn't recognize you with your clothes on!":o

had that happen to me to except it was in the check out line at the store. pretty bad considering i was in my mid twenties and he had to be pushing eighty. felt like anna nicole for the next ten minutes. so embarrassed.

Specializes in Peds Medical Floor.

Oh my God, Wooh. I am just dying laughing. Literally sitting here with tears laughing so hard.I am guilty of the crime of going out after work in my scrubs. Can I lose my license for that???? :p

No, but I think you can loose your license for that.... :p

Specializes in Peds Medical Floor.

Seriously you must be a riot to work with. Wanna get a drink and go dancing and infect the world together after work tomorrow? I wear.....fomite encrusted scrubs.

I think I'd like to change into sweat pants if we go fomiting up the town!

Oh my God, Wooh. I am just dying laughing. Literally sitting here with tears laughing so hard.I am guilty of the crime of going out after work in my scrubs. Can I lose my license for that???? :p

I did not say lose your license, but your job. Lots of places now have issue with nurses representing their facility outside of work. It has nothing to do with germs, it has everything to do wih the image. It is being put in more employee handbooks than you can imagine. Right or wrong, it is happening. It is right up there with the facility determining a dress code, (no tattoos showing, what earrings one can wear, no heavy makeup, etc) they have added a clause about wearing of one's uniform outside of the hospital/nursing home. And if you live in a town small enough where someone is going to recognize you as a nurse from the local hospital/nursing home, it just takes a phone call to your manager that you were out "drinking" in uniform at a bar. (subjective information, to be sure).

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