Do you carry a change of scrubs?

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  1. Do you have a change of scrubs in your car/ locker?

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      Yes
    • 26
      No

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Specializes in Geri, psych, TCU, neuro--AKA LTC.

In a snowy climate, we're required to stay on campus if staff is unable to get in D/T bad weather etc. We were talking at work and none of us carry a change of clothes in case we need to stay, so we were wondering if we're the oddballs.

Do you keep a change of clothes in your car/ locker?

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Ever since I took my first "blood bath" at work I have kept a full set of scrubs as spare at work. It has nothing to do with the weather, although when the weather gets rough-it's not uncommon for me to bring in an additional set and extra underwear and socks. I've been stuck at work before, and if I have my own stuff it's not too bad.

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There are plenty of other things that I already have to carry :chuckle Luckily my hospital provides for instances where one may need to change scrubs and allows staff to use scrubs from or/ob in such situations. You do have to bring them back, of course!

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Specializes in Hemodialysis, Home Health.

Absolutely... again not for the weather, though... but the blood spalshes at dialysis... yep... gotta have exrta !!! ;)

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I always have extra scrubs available at work cause I work in the OR. The hospital supplies our scrubs so I can use as many pairs as I need in a day :D

Christine

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I voted no. I have one pair of pants, white denim. I have two scrub tops, one blue and one tropical but I hate scrub tops cause they ride up on your tush. :o So I wear those work-out tops that tuck into my pants and are covered by lab coats. I have two white lab coats and one navy blue lab coat. All kept at home, except of course my only pair of pants and the top I pick and the lab coat, which I wear.:D Naked nursing would not be good.

If I get spilled upon . . . I can go to the OR dressing room and grab a pair of green scrubs.

I'm only a mile from home so weather is not a big deal.

steph

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Not anymore. When I was working I did. Along with underwear, tooth brush etc. Also blanket, candles, FOOD, mountain dews, radio (tee hee). Been stuck in a storm more often than a southern girl should have to be. I've showed up for work when people who lived less than a mile away called in d/t weather.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Trauma, Ortho, Neuro, Cardiac.

No, but it's a good idea. We have a stash of scrubs in the nsg office and one never knows what size is available.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

not necessary. we are provided scrubs at work......beats the heck out of wearing that garbage home, germs and all. if I get dirty, i go to the locker room and don a new pair of scrubs, tossing the others in the hospital laundry hopper. i change out of the nasty things before i leave for home.

i can't understand why all hospitals do not forbid scrubs worn from home to work and vice versa. good infection control practice.... sure saves me $$$ too!:)

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anybody who's ever been pooped on at work wished they did. I once had to go around in a pair of old pants that were sitting in the back of my car waiting to be taken to "Sally Ann's".

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Specializes in HIV/AIDS, Dementia, Psych.

Nope, I don't...but I did get pooped on once and that should have taught me a lesson! :D

I was turning a pt. on his side to do a sacral dressing and some gas (along with a lil' somethin' extra) shot out right onto the bottom of my jacket....eeeeeeew!! I took it right off and thre it into the garbage. The CNA that was in the room with me said 'You're throwing that OUT?:eek:' To which I replied 'Do you have a better idea?' It's not like I was going to bring it home and run it through my washer!!!! :uhoh21:

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Specializes in Geri, psych, TCU, neuro--AKA LTC.
Originally posted by HerEyes73

Nope, I don't...but I did get pooped on once and that should have taught me a lesson! :D

I was turning a pt. on his side to do a sacral dressing and some gas (along with a lil' somethin' extra) shot out right onto the bottom of my jacket....eeeeeeew!! I took it right off and thre it into the garbage. The CNA that was in the room with me said 'You're throwing that OUT?:eek:' To which I replied 'Do you have a better idea?' It's not like I was going to bring it home and run it through my washer!!!! :uhoh21:

I'm in LTC, similar situation, I just used a Sharpie and marked my name and let them wash it. It got back to me the next day all sanitized and clean.

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