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

[fsv1024]

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?

[laughing weasel]

Shoes off at the door. Only a little paranoid

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

what are "rn shoes"?

[loriangel14, RN]

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.

[lillian2010]

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.

I think my clinical instructor scared me when she said how many germs there are in hospitals and such. 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.

[linearthinker, DNP, RN]

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