I noticed the thread that asked about showering after you came home from work....I saw a high percentage of you mention that you didn't want to bring germs/cruddy things into the home.
Then how can there be so many people with scrubs (sometimes name badges), that can go into a grocery store and into the produce section and lean over the fruit/vegetables, handle some until finding the perfect piece?
I have asked this before- it just doesn't make sense to me. And before someone gets on their high-horse, I am aware that some of these people may be on their way TO work. Even if you are a station clerk, you are exposed to dirty crud. A worker in a doc's office also.
I see so many people in scrubs at the produce section... Maybe it doesn't bother you, but I feel they are not being conscientious.
produce grow's in the dirt. It is in an open field. It travels, by trains, and trucks,. I have seen plenty of bugs on produce. Yep there are some germs that are problems only to the human species.....but really life is dirty, try not to think about it I rather see a health care worker in scrubs than some mom with 6 kids, cough, sneezing, pickn' noses and all the kids handling the food.
call me disgusting and dirty, but i usually don't shower after i get home from work. i go straight to bed, even with the same scrubs on. i'm just too tired! then i'll wake up and take a shower and get dressed.
Specializes in Acute Care Cardiac, Education, Prof Practice.
I shop before work, in my scrubs, with my name tag on and flipped over (because otherwise I forget it) on occasion. I also go to the chiropractor in my scrubs before work because waking up at three and changing clothes to go to the chiro and then coming home to switch to scrubs doesn't make sense to me. I never go anywhere after work unless I ABSOLUTELY have to, which rarely happens.
The following has probably been said, but often I see people in scrubs and I think the following:
Do they really work in healthcare? I have seen scrubs in various places, and not always in a hospital, at the bedside.
Maybe they are going to work like me.
Maybe they just wear scrubs because they are comfortable?
Specializes in med surg-oncology-progressive care-Rehab.
I go to the grocery store after work all the time. When we get to the store we grab a cart ( major organisms here). Even if you went home and showered, we would pick up more germs on those carts than a day at work, because we use are PPE.
Just as a rule of thumb I figure there are germs everywhere, if I'm in scrubs when I get home a strip and slip in the shower as soon as I can . But realistic circumstances kids and husbands have to be taken care of so I have to postpone the shower. But I do come home right away and take the nasty scrubs off. I have a 4 month old and I 'm really weird about germs and the scrub thing .
Specializes in ER, NICU, NSY and some other stuff.
What about those people who pick their nose while driving their car? Where do you suppose they're going with those nasty fingers, and do you think they're going to be washing their hands before handling those tomatoes?
Oh Thanks. Now I will never be able to eat a tomatoe ever again.
I agree. To the Original poster do you believe that all of those other non-scrub wearing folks are sterile? These are the people spreading contagion, not me.
Some US hospital's policies, and European countries' regulations, mandate a uniform change into hospital-provided scrubs when arriving at work and a change back into street clothes before leaving work.
i'm guilty of going to the supermarket in scrubs. i figure atleast i know what i touched at work. you never know who is behind you at publix that coughed active TB on you.
nebrgirl
133 Posts
produce grow's in the dirt. It is in an open field. It travels, by trains, and trucks,. I have seen plenty of bugs on produce. Yep there are some germs that are problems only to the human species.....but really life is dirty, try not to think about it I rather see a health care worker in scrubs than some mom with 6 kids, cough, sneezing, pickn' noses and all the kids handling the food.