Are nurses able to shower after shift?

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Hi I was wondering if most employers have locker rooms with showers so staff can shower after shift and then go home. Well clock out, shower then go home.

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This would be a question to ask of your employer. People usually go home right after work.

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

Locker room with no functional shower for me. Most of us just go home and go about our normal lives, unless there was some major contamination with blood/feces/other body fluid. The only reason I even have access to a locker room? Working in the OR. The general floors don't even have that.

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You are all correct. It depends on the facility. I will just have to ask the employer and find out. Thanks for everyone's input.

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Even if a shower were available, many people can't get out of the building fast enough when their shift is over!

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.

The vast majority of nursing break rooms I have seen (as a CNA, during school, on the job as an RN) do not have showers in them. Even if they did, I would not use them.

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I have never showered at work after my shift. My hospital does have showers in the locker rooms however.

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Our facility has showers in the break and locker rooms. Personally, I wouldn't dare use it. I have a change of clothes in my locker, however. If I get bodily fluids on my scrubs that are "contaminated" or is enough to make me feel uncomfortable I just change and shower at home.

The availability of a shower will depend on the facility.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, PACU.

Only our resident call rooms have them.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

The only showers I've seen are decontamination showers aside from medical resident call rooms.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.

Just the thought of removing anything but my jacket at the hospital gives me the creeps!:nailbiting:

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
Just the thought of removing anything but my jacket at the hospital gives me the creeps!:nailbiting:

If I'm covered in hydrofluoric acid then hose me down in a decon tent but other than that send me home. I hated showering in the hospital as a patient!

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