Do you keep your rn shoes in the car after a shift?

Nurses Uniform/Gear

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I figured I'd ask. A few of my friends and I were chatting about this: Do you keep your nursing shoes in your car, bring them into your home, or clean them after a shift?

Shoes off at the door. Only a little paranoid

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

what are "rn shoes"?

Specializes in Acute Care, Rehab, Palliative.

In the nice weather I wear mine back and forth to work and take them off inside the door when I get home. Now that it's winter I leave them in my locker at work and wear my boots to work.

I just finished my first semester of nursing school, and ever since day one, I take off my shoes as soon as I get to my car, put my shoes in a walmart bag in the trunk, and throw on my flip flops, and, of course, take a shower as soon as I get home. :up:

I think my clinical instructor scared me when she said how many germs there are in hospitals and such. :eek: Plus, we had a scabies break-out at the site I was at (fyi: none of my former nursing students got scabies, we were out of clinicals for two weeks). Now, whether I'm visiting a friend who just had a baby or even just stepping foot in a hospital, I lysol my shoes as soon as I get to my car. Call me crazy, but I would much rather be safe than sorry. :yeah:

Specializes in FNP.

In my locker at work. I would never take those nasty things into my home.

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