One set of scrubs?

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Can you get by with just one set? We will only have to wear them one day a week and money is tight, really would like to just get by with one. They recommended two...

At clinical sites does anyone bring an extra pair with them in case something gross happens to the set you are wearing?

I have one uniform at the moment. The pants they asked us to buy don't work for anyone so I was able to substitute them for a pair I purchased at Wal-Mart for 12.00 but the top is specific to the school. First semester I only bought one set, this semester I will buy another. I think three would be sufficient for my needs.

After I graduate - I'm burning the tops.

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I purchase TWO of everything (including my photo ID to wear at clinicals). I am always thinking about the (what if's) what if I get a hole on the way to clinicals with no way to quickly fix, what if bleach gets spilled on them, what if I forgot to wash a pair. Is it worth stressing about getting sent home because you only have one set? We don't have a scrub store in the town where I live so I have to order online, but maybe where you live, you have access to a store where you can get a second set in an emergency if needs be. As you can tell, my mantra is better to be safe than sorry

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Specializes in LTC.
Our instructor reccommened having a second set just in case something gross happens and we need to change!

Today I was gifted with a lovely trail of tube-feed vomit all up and down my scrub top. I'm currently sitting here on break, wearing the only clean shirt that was in my car.

Unfortunately, it's a band t-shirt with a very large skull and crossbones on it.

Just waiting on the boyfriend to bring me a new shirt...

An extra set of scrubs in the car is ALWAYS a good idea.

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

I'd only buy one set. If you got something nasty on them, any decent hospital would loan you a set to get you through the rest of the day. At least every clinical site I was at would do so.

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Specializes in Family Practice, Dermatology.
Can you get by with just one set? We will only have to wear them one day a week and money is tight, really would like to just get by with one. They recommended two...

At clinical sites does anyone bring an extra pair with them in case something gross happens to the set you are wearing?

I purchased 1 set for the same reason. It was fine. If it wasnt enough, I knew I could go back and pick up more.

Just get creative, if you need to launder them before tomorrow's shift, then do it.

Most of my fellow nursing students said they were "done with purple" after our grad. Thats true for a while, you wont want to wear those pieces together or those scrubs at all.

You'll need separation from being a student.

So dont over purchase just because they list it as required.

School is all about excess expense, usually at a time when you cannot afford it.

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Check with your school. When my calss finished our clinicals, we donated one set to the school for incoming students and had a party with a bonfire and burned our other set. Your school may have scrubs available, or may have an outlet they have made a deal with for scrubs that are cheap. My facility has scrubs available for employees at $5.00 each. That is where I would start.

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Specializes in retired LTC.
Check with your school. When my calss finished our clinicals, we donated one set to the school for incoming students and had a party with a bonfire and burned our other set. Your school may have scrubs available, or may have an outlet they have made a deal with for scrubs that are cheap. My facility has scrubs available for employees at $5.00 each. That is where I would start.
Oh the memories....we did this in the 'old days' when we had the pastel candy-stripe dresses and caps. Those dresses didn't fit everyone well either like your scrubs. Had the traditional ripping and end of school destruction of our uniforms too.
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I got puked on once at clinical- just my pants- and they gave me a pair of the hospital scrubs. I had 3 or 4 sets, I believe, but we had clinical up to 3 times a week. If it was just one day/ week, then two might be more convenient, but one should be just fine.

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I ended up buying 4 sets and a lab coat. Yeah overkill. I bought 2 sets and the coat from someone on craigslist. I just wanted the coat but she gave everything to me since she was moving. The scrubs don't fit too well given the fact that they are supposedly large, the new ones I bought new were medium. I kinda like the idea of not having to stand in my closet deciding what to wear. Check craigslist, you might find what you need for cheap

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Specializes in ED.

In my program, you really only need two sets in your last semester, as that is when you do practicum and you wear them a lot. I've only ever had one set, we have clinical once a week and it's been fine. I never bring extra, if something happens (never has, knock on wood), the hospital has scrubs I can borrow.

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In my program we wear or scrub pants to lecture and clinicals. We wear a white zip front scrub top to clinical 1 day a week and a polo to our classroom and skills labs. I was wearing my pants 4x a week in my first semester. I had 2 pair of scrubs, I would re-wear the pants after lectures or skills lab if they were still clean, but I was doing laundry several times a week some weeks when I couldn't re-wear after a lecture because I spilled coffee or something during the day. I would recommend at least two sets though I never take an extra to the hospital, since we would get a pair of hospital scrubs if something really gross got on our uniform. Now I am in my 3rd semester and working 5 nights a week in private duty, I have 4 pair of white scrub pants I can wear for school or work and several pair of different colored scrub pants I can wear to work. Wal-mart sells scrubs for around $15, I've also bought scrubs and uniforms for my program second hand off craigslist very inexpensively.

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.

If you're only wearing it once a week, one set of scrubs is fine. I'm in a part-time program, so I have class on one day and clinical on one day. I'm about to start my 6th of 7 semesters (there is an end in sight!:D), and I've never had a problem with only having one set of scrubs.

If you get goop on your clothes at clinical, they can loan you some hospital-issue scrubs to wear in the meantime. "It" happens!

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