Scrubs on LDRP

Specialties Ob/Gyn

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  • Specializes in OB, L&D, IPR (1 year).

Hi everyone Happy New Year.

I am writing because I am trying to do some research on what other hospitals are doing with the scrub question. does the hospital supply do you wear scrubs (hospital or personal) that are different from all the other units in the hospital to make you distinct? what about your Badges are they different from the rest of the hospital? also if your unit is a locked unit or not.

I am trying to get enough information so that I can make a proposal to get distinct scrubs for my unit citing security reasons so any help will be appreciated.

thanks!

RaeT,RN

167 Posts

At my institution, we wear the ciel blue hospital-laundered scrubs on our unit and change before we come on shift. These are the same scrubs that are worn in the big OR and a couple other places. Labor and Delivery is the only area of our women's center that wears them.

Though there is one public elevator to the women's center, the staff elevator can only access the women's center by scanning their ID badge. Only Women's and Childrens staff, maintenance, I think; pt transport, ER staff, and physicians' name badges are programed to gain access to the women's center. Every employee in Women's health has a picture name badge with their credentials and a pink stripe across the bottom of it. That marks us as Women's and Childrens staff and pt's are instructed to never give their baby to anyone without a pink stripe.

tntrn, ASN, RN

1,340 Posts

Specializes in L & D; Postpartum.

Our unit is also locked; the Birth Center staff badges are rimmed in pink. There are hospital-supplied scrubs, but not all of us wear them. I am allergic to the thread, the fabric or SOMETHING in scrubs. When I wear them, even if I've washed them myself at home, I get fiery red irritations along all seam lines. Some of those are in pretty uncomfortable places.

Others prefer to wear their own and do. I carry my own scrubs in and change there. Others just wear theirs in.

RNnL&D

323 Posts

We have one main access door that is unlocked during visiting hours. It is manned by a support tech and all visitors, pts, and hospital staff from other units must stop at the desk for a pass. The door is locked after visiting hours and they must be buzzed in. We wear our own scrubs, no particular style, with orange ID badges.

allnurses Guide

Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN

11,304 Posts

I work in a small rural hospital. Nothing is locked - well, at night we lock the doors except the ER door.

We wear whatever we want related to scrubs and colors. Just no black.

The nurses are cross-trained med/surg, OB, Post-Partum, Post-op, and some nurses also work ER. So, I could be working med/surg and a mom comes in laboring and I leave to take care of her while someone is called in to take my place on med/surg. Or I could be on call for OB. Or I could get moved from the ER to OB and the on-call ER person comes in.

Life is certainly different out in the country.

steph

webbiedebbie

630 Posts

Specializes in OB, Telephone Triage, Chart Review/Code.

One hospital I worked at (small) as a traveler, we wore our own scrubs, but we had to wear a white "bunny" suit over them for C-Sections. Not a locked unit. Badges were distinct with the pink stripe.

ftr_bb_catchr

141 Posts

Our scrubs are either pastel or navy blue (no red, black or gray only happy colors) but we are required to wear a patch that says "Maternal/Child Health" and there is a bright pink stripe on the badge. It's pretty noticable and patients are told to look for it. No locked doors but there is at least one secretary by the door before you come through and getting through her would be a task in and of itself ;o) Plus we have seperate staff and visitor entrances. It's a pretty good system I think.

SmilingBluEyes

20,964 Posts

Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

see my answer for your Nursery nurse scrubs.

MissJoRN, RN

414 Posts

Our unit wears the same blue scrubs as the OR and every other person who's ever swiped a set. Jackets may be brought in form home, any style/print prefered by the nurse and are hospital washed. we do have the pink photo ID badges for anyone "qualified to hold a baby or toddler" in LDR, nursery, NICU, and peds. Parents are informed that the units are locked, only nursing, security, and medical (attending, not resident) staff has keys amd never to hand their baby to someone who does not have a pink tag.

ShannonB25

186 Posts

Our unit wears the same blue scrubs as the OR and every other person who's ever swiped a set. Jackets may be brought in form home, any style/print prefered by the nurse and are hospital washed. we do have the pink photo ID badges for anyone "qualified to hold a baby or toddler" in LDR, nursery, NICU, and peds. Parents are informed that the units are locked, only nursing, security, and medical (attending, not resident) staff has keys amd never to hand their baby to someone who does not have a pink tag.

What she wrote!!

tammki5g

21 Posts

Specializes in OB, L&D, IPR (1 year).

thanks everyone for your replys they are very helpfull to me. keep them coming. I am trying to get a data base to build a nice profile with. I don't expect to get everything I want but with enough info I could get the most important things.

CA CoCoRN, RN

173 Posts

We have hospital supplied scrubs.

Only the RNs wear a certain color. Ancillary and technical staff wear two other colors. No one, not even student nurses can wear the color the L&D nurses wear.

I've had to reasonably "jump" on a housekeeper or two for wearing our color. The reason? We all used to wear the same color on the unit. We had an incident when a father-to-be notified a "nurse" that something was wrong with a patient. He had actually notified ancillary staff who didn't/couldn't find the nurse and didn't notify another nurse. Father delivered his own baby....and the sequalae with his outrage (baby was thankfully fine)....mandated a solution to the problem. Solution?? Differentiated scrub colors.

The scrubs are hospital/agency laundered, except for those nurses who are irritated by that process. They they wash their own.

Our unit has special stripes on our badges for the L&D, PP, WBN.

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