Socializing after work in your scrubs

[klone]

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!

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

Happily my last employer (hospital) had no such handbook and no such agreement requirement, nor does my current one.

And I have, on occasion, been recognized at work for something I did outside of work, and never because of what I was wearing while doing it :-/

[0402]

From my brief research, it appears as if this is the norm. When I think of hoardes of nurses behaving wildly in uniform, all I can think is, "Job opening!?!!?!?!"

What an odd, warped mindset. I understand that there are many people that want there to be more job opportunities but to desire this, at the detriment to the very population of employees they wish to join, is inappropriate. Better yourself to get those jobs; don't wish for the downfall of others. I wouldn't want to work around (or precept students) who are just waiting for a mistake so they can jump on an "opportunity."

[OCNRN63, RN]

I wear scrubs after work to go to the store or eat. If I get my scrubs dirtied (poo, pee or having a fomite poo and pee on my scrubs), then I'll change. I always have an extra shoes and scrubs in my trunk.

Is it gross? Unless someone is going to put their food in my dirty scrubs then yes, I'd say that's gross (and weird at the same time).

But like everyone said to each is own.

We watch movies and sit on those chairs and never think of germs. Who knows when those chairs was last wiped, let alone disinfected? People always put their dirty shoes on the back of those seats. Those seats have been farted on (an indication of a good comedy or really scary movie) and most probably would have some bodily fluid of some sort. We place our drinks on those cup holders and then use the same hand to dunk into the popcorn.

Is my scrub really that gross to be worn in public? Somehow I don't think so.

Man...I am never going to leave my house after reading that!

[RNsRWe, ASN, RN]

From my brief research, it appears as if this is the norm. When I think of hoardes of nurses behaving wildly in uniform, all I can think is, "Job opening!?!!?!?!"

What an odd, warped mindset. I understand that there are many people that want there to be more job opportunities but to desire this, at the detriment to the very population of employees they wish to join, is inappropriate. Better yourself to get those jobs; don't wish for the downfall of others. I wouldn't want to work around (or precept students) who are just waiting for a mistake so they can jump on an "opportunity."

Did I miss something?

[redhead_NURSE98!, ADN, BSN]

From my brief research, it appears as if this is the norm. When I think of hoardes of nurses behaving wildly in uniform, all I can think is, "Job opening!?!!?!?!"

What an odd, warped mindset. I understand that there are many people that want there to be more job opportunities but to desire this, at the detriment to the very population of employees they wish to join, is inappropriate. Better yourself to get those jobs; don't wish for the downfall of others. I wouldn't want to work around (or precept students) who are just waiting for a mistake so they can jump on an "opportunity."

Oh, I don't know if they meant it that way. I think it was just a funny way to say they might possibly get fired for misbehaving themselves "in uniform."

[sharpeimom]

[NicuGal, MSN, RN]

Doctors where I work don't wear scrubs and they go out after work....think about that for a minute.

[Stcroix, ASN, PhD, RN]

Ya, but they are doctors! Germs won't stick to them, that's why I see them going into isolation rooms all the time without gear.

[redhead_NURSE98!, ADN, BSN]

Ya, but they are doctors! Germs won't stick to them, that's why I see them going into isolation rooms all the time without gear.

Holy crap LMAO

[Zookeeper3]

i wear scrubs out after work, and yes to the bar because i don't touch patients. i do the stimulation studies in an electrophysiology lab and change my sneakers.

so after a ten hour shift, where i purposefully induce vt and svt's with rates in the 200's, i need a beer to get rid of the pucker factor i've had in my pants for the last ten hours.

i don't care if you think it's unprofessional, i've just been professional for the last ten hours trying to induce a life threatening rhythm so we can cure someone. now it's time for me.

why wouldn't people just change back into their street clothes, then go out? i don't understand why that's an issue. you've been cleaning up poo, pee, blood, vomit, you've been in isolation rooms....other people don't need to be exposed to that.

[fuzzywuzzy, CNA]

I don't go out in my scrubs because I work in an 85 degree nursing home and all I want to do when I walk out the door is peel the dang things off and take a quick sponge bath. It has a lot more to do with that gross sweaty feeling than with any microbes that might be hitching a ride on my clothes. Besides, I am a clothes horse and I don't spend money on clothes that I'm not going to wear. I frequently stop for gas or groceries on the way home though, in my scrubs, so I don't have to make an extra trip.

[silverbat]

fuzzywuzzy--- why is your nursing home so warm? there are standards of care related to temperatures that are appropriate for elderly and surveyers tag tag tag for too hot or too cold.