Contaminated Scrubs..do you wear scrubs to the stores

SonicnurseRN · Feb 23, 2009

Personally, I think it is GROSS to wear scrubs & shoes out of the hospital.

Why bring germs w/ you in the car & out into the community?

chevyv, BSN, RN · Feb 23, 2009

This was a hot topic a few months back. For me, I have no problem running into the store for groceries and no, I do not hover over the fruits and veggies! I work pms and there are barely any shoppers out at 12am, so I'm in and out so much quicker.

Nurseismade RN · Feb 23, 2009

Personally, I think it is GROSS to wear scrubs & shoes out of the hospital.
Why bring germs w/ you in the car & out into the community?

never quite thought of it like that!!!!!

maybe I will bring clothes to change into after work....now all i need is a locker:D

FireStarterRN, BSN, RN · Feb 23, 2009

Another Foxs news program contributing to public hysteria and paranoia :rolleyes:

When will the media start behaving responsibly?

FireStarterRN, BSN, RN · Feb 23, 2009

Yes, I will wear scrubs to the store, for Christ's sake! Let's get a grip here! :rolleyes:

Next thing the public will demand is that nurses wear contact isolation garb everywhere. :rolleyes: We and our families can live in special colonies like lepers used to have to do.

Lorie P. · Feb 23, 2009

my scrubs are a lot cleaner than the clothes of the family members who visist stores after visiting their c-diff family or mrsa!

nurses are always washing their hands, are conscious of what we touch or don't touch. we wear gloves, families don't. they allow little johnny/sue to climb all over the floor in the pt's room, all over the pt and carry the germs in more places than nurses do.

this has been a hot topic before, i will wear my scrubs to pick up a few groceries after working a shift, unless i have been splattered with the gross things, than usually have changed way before leaving work.

since the nearest walmart is 35 miles from my home, it is easier to stop by then come home change and return. by the way walmart is only 4 blocks from the hospital. i see plenty of co-workers from the night shift in there.

just my :twocents:!

FireStarterRN, BSN, RN · Feb 23, 2009

Probably everyone with MRSA got it at the store from that disgustingly filthy money. :rolleyes:

Maybe the store personnel ought to be gowning, gloving and masking!

FireStarterRN, BSN, RN · Feb 23, 2009

How about if Fox news did a program on whether visitors to hospitals ought to be contaminating patients after going to Safeway! :madface:

traveljen · Feb 23, 2009

Personally, I think it is GROSS to wear scrubs & shoes out of the hospital.
Why bring germs w/ you in the car & out into the community?

Here is the issue not everyone who works in the hospital and exposed to the germs wears scrubs so you have no idea when your out where people have been.

sunray12 · Feb 23, 2009

Another Foxs news program contributing to public hysteria and paranoia
When will the media start behaving responsibly?

IMO one should change before leaving the hospital. I know people who do and they aren't even nurses.

I don't watch Fox news.

flightnurse2b, LPN · Feb 23, 2009

guilty! i am a dirty germ spreading nurse!

if i know my scrubs are very dirty, i go home and strip in the garage or i change into the spare pair in my locker. but if i work an uneventful day where i dont have poop, pee, blood, mucus or vomit on me and i need to go to the post office or to target... im going.

atleast i KNOW what my patients have and take the proper precautions such as masking, gowning and gloving and wash my hands 8,000 times a day.

how do you know the person who is bagging your groceries doesnt have C-diff, just went to the bathroom, and didnt wash? or the person whose behind you hacking in the walmart line didnt just get tested for TB?

and how many times do you see people put their hands thar you dont know if they've been picking their nose or their buttcrack and inspect every peice of fruit in the grocery store?

we're all dirty.

maybe if we all ate dirt as children, we'd be better off.