Do you shower when you get off work???

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I'm just curious if those of you who have nurse-to-patient contact... Do you shower when you get home from work??

I'm kind of a freak when it comes to showering... I have to shower in the morning and then before bed each night... So I know once I start working in the field, I will be showering when I get home anyway, but I'm curious if I wasn't this way to begin with if I would still shower or not...

Just curious...

Specializes in Peds, ER/Trauma.

I take a bubble bath to unwind when i get home from work in the morning, before I go to bed

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ALWAYS!!!!! I know the stuff I'm AWARE of that's on me; hardly wanna think about all the potential stuff that's on me. Can't imagine going to bed with all that on me and getting it all over the bed!

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Shower as soon as I come home. I put surgery shoe covers on my shoes to drive home and take my shoes off outside the door. Then I put on gloves and take some clorox wipes to my shoes, put on new gloves and bring them inside. I have a special mat by the door where my work shoes lay. I also shampoo my car seat regularly and have clorox wipes in my car to wipe off the gear shift, steering wheel, door handle, etc. I also wipe the front door handle.

Usually I'm a morning shower person but there's no way on God's green earth that I'd get up at 0500 to take a shower. I'm lucky to get up as early as I do.

I've been accused by a doc to have OCD but I think he's full of it.

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Hmmm... I always shower after work. I'm also one of those who keeps an extra pair of shoes in the car to change into so I don't spread germs to my car. I put my work shoes in a plastic bag

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Specializes in LTC.

You all make me feel so much better!!!!!!! I thought I was the only germaphobe out there!! My family thinks I'm nuts, when I come home from work-- the scrubs come flying off and into a plastic garbage bag, then I jump in a nice hot hot shower and I break out the antibacterial soap, and I scrub and scrub until I feel clean, and then I do the hair....... I think you guys get the picture....... Thank god it's not just me,......

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not usually. i tend to enjoy the Swamp Ass feeling, as does my fiance.

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i find it a must to shower. i work in an ICU and deal with many contact precaution pts (MRSA, ect.). you can wear gowns, ect., but how well protected are you. i never get beyond the entry of my house before i have pretty much taken everything off and in the laundry and on the way to the shower. do as you wish, but always be on the caution.

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not usually. i tend to enjoy the Swamp Ass feeling, as does my fiance.

:rotfl: For the longest time i thought my boyfriend coined that term! I have never heard it used before I met him. lmao.

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Specializes in ICU, Research, Corrections.

I don't, I shower before work. In the ICU I never have more than 2 patients. I believe that my contact precautions, (when called for), work. So does excellent hand washing.

When I do get home, the first thing I do is a very thorough hand washing, surgeon scrub in style, up to my elbows.

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Specializes in ICU, ER.

Don't forget to wash your hair-I don't know how many times a day I push my hair up. It has to be putting germs in my hair, and then on my pillow, etc.

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Specializes in CCRN, CNRN, Flight Nurse.

I'm a night shifter and all I want to do when I get home is go to bed!! I shower when I get up. I wash my hands regularly at work and, if needed, change scrubs

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Specializes in ICU, Research, Corrections.
I'm a night shifter and all I want to do when I get home is go to bed!!

:rotfl:

Me too! I am too tired to even eat anything, let alone take a shower before AND after work!

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