Do you shower right after your shift?

Palliative Care, DNP · Jul 17, 2011

I can not imagine not showering immediately but then again I have 4 kids. Also, scrubs twice in a row :smackingf

KeechieSan · Jul 17, 2011

Nope, I don't shower until I wake up the next day (or later in the day, depending on the shift). I also wear my scrubs/shoes inside my house. I'm sorry, but what does everyone think they are coming into contact with at the hospital that they aren't in the general public? MRSA and Cdiff? They are everywhere!! Body fluid? Thats everywhere too!

Guest03/15/15, BSN, RN · Jul 17, 2011

KeechieSan said:
Nope, I don't shower until I wake up the next day (or later in the day, depending on the shift). I also wear my scrubs/shoes inside my house. I'm sorry, but what does everyone think they are coming into contact with at the hospital that they aren't in the general public? MRSA and Cdiff? They are everywhere!! Body fluid? Thats everywhere too!

Yes body fluids are everywhere. That doesnt mean I want to track splattered urine/blood from my scrubs onto the seat of my truck.

joanna73, BSN, RN · Jul 17, 2011

I don't have kids and I take a shower right before work. I also wear clean scrubs daily. In the winter, it can be minus 50 where I am....I'm not getting into the shower and sitting there with wet hair after work. UNLESS there is the exception where I am soiled from work. Then, yes, ok. I see nothing wrong with that.

hecallsmeDuchess · Jul 17, 2011

I take off my scrubs as soon as I get in the house, then I take a shower. I never, ever, ever, go to bed ever from work without showering. Even when I'm so tired I can barely stand, I still drag myself into the shower so I can wash off that hospital smell off me.

tvccrn, ASN, RN · Jul 17, 2011

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tvccrn,
LOL! I know! I have been known to lysol EVERYTHING... especially my shoes. One solution could be to put a towel over the seat and then wash the towel and also, to take my shoes off before getting into my vehicle, maybe bring a change of shoes ...
But I don't think my problem goes that far I was able to function without caring about the truck seat and peddles ?
What do you do?

When I get home I barely get home when my sons attack me!! :lol2: I general have a pair of shoes that I leave at work and change out of my scrubs in the mudroom.

carolmaccas66, BSN, RN · Jul 19, 2011

I shower irregardless of the time the shift ends. I cannot stand going to bed dirty and sweaty, having had to clean pooh and having sick people cough all over me (ever notice how old people cough ON you and don't ever cover their mouths?) And I could not ever, ever sleep next to someone with stinky feet or who didn't shower/wash before bed - even if they'd sat around the house all day.

I like to feel nice and clean and fresh. It also helps me sleep too.

Cat_RN, ASN, BSN, RN · Jul 25, 2011

I shower immediately after I get home, shoes left outside and scrubs in the washer. Don't wash my hair every time though. I cannot sleep if I feel sticky and itchy after work.

xtxrn, ASN, RN · Jul 25, 2011

For me, it depended on what kind of shift it had been, and the type of nursing I was doing.... work clothes came off asap, regardless.

If I was working drug/alcohol rehab or psych, I usually showered before work. When working in the hospital, and sometimes LTC, I showered after work.

If it had been gross anywhere, I showered after I'd run screaming from the backdoor, ripping my clothes off en route to the bathroom :)

:hpygrp:

Butterfly0328 · Aug 10, 2011

Not in nursing school yet, but living in Las Vegas I am soaking when I get home, at least May-September. I go take shoes off at the garage door, walk into the laundry area and strip. Clothes in the washer and high tail it to the shower. Would probably win America's funniest video if I was filmed doing this process. :lol2: :lol2: