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.
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All I have to say is . There is another website that I belong to that has a barf smiley I wish we did here. I don't feel like looking up the HTML code for it.
Ok I became unlazy and looked it up and can't get it to work.
:barf01::barf01::barf02:Don't worry, there's plenty of barfing smilies around here.
Sorry I do not and never will agree with nurses going shopping in their scrubs I do not care how well you clean your hands your clothes have been in close contact with blood, poop, pus, urine. I know you do not wear aprons when dealing with the majority of pts only the ones we know are in contact isolation, they are not the dangerous ones are they.
So go home and change or shop on your days off. Plus why would you want everybody in a store to know what you do for a living? I cannot imagine anything worse than being asked for help because I am in uniform.
I guess I am missing something in the whole concept, but I am one of those people who stops to shop, I don't necessarily shower right when I get home...unless of course I've had body fluids spilled on me (I one time dropped a graduate of NG drainage and it soaked my whole foot through my sock...ew!). I know that I am CLOSE to all of those things (the blood, pus, etc), but I am handling with my hands, which are gloved, and then washed repeatedly. I don't get it on my clothes, so I am not sure what the issue is?
Sorry I do not and never will agree with nurses going shopping in their scrubs I do not care how well you clean your hands your clothes have been in close contact with blood, poop, pus, urine.
Well, I guess that excludes mothers of small children from shopping, too.
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. Plus why would you want everybody in a store to know what you do for a living? I cannot imagine anything worse than being asked for help because I am in uniform.
I don't think anyone cares what I do for a living because I'm in scrubs, and I could care less they see I am a nurse, what difference does that make ? I'm certainly not hiding anything from anyone. Many different workers wear scrubs, not just nurses, and I have never been asked for help or medical advice because I am in uniform, I think that's a little odd to be concerned with such a thing.:uhoh21: Should we not stop to get gas either? I have stopped to help people in distress or accidents, ironically, never had a uniform on
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