Bastian

I work in the Netherlands, here everyone wears white, nurses, docs, kitchen staff, cleaning staff, ICU staff too. Only OR and recovery personnel wear scrubs. I haven't had any problems with stains but luckily the hospital takes care of the laundry (it's even compulsory because of some hygiene rule in the hospital). I think the only problem is that the patients usually can't see the difference beetween a nurse, a doc and someone from the kitchen staff... can't understand why they haven't come up with some color-coding scheme or something else... really very confusing. Doc's sometimes wear long white coats but the young ones usually prefer the short jackets with white pants (same as nurses uniform). Oh yes... and one big problem is that white is very shine-through... most people wear white t-shirts under their jackets. Some women shouldn't wear thongs under their uniforms... it shows! When I see US nurses on TV, i've seen some nice scrubs I'd like to wear too. I just don't get the scrubs with the (what are they?) little flowers on them? I think that's awful and would rather wear white than that! (OK I'm a guy so I think I haven's seen guys wearing that on TV). :chuckle OK, good luck to everyone switching to white!

This is my first post so I hope it's the right place for this: I have a question about flushing clotted periferal iv lines (venflon flush): I'm a nursing student right now. At nursing school, we were told by a teacher to always use an empty syringe on the venflon first to try to "suck out" clots stuck in the venflon. His reason for doing this was that if you just pushed in saline, the clot could cause an embolism somewhere else in the body. At the hospital where I work, I've never seen anyone do this. Everyone just uses a syringe filled with saline to flush the venflon. Some people manually build op pressure in the periferal line to try to clear up small clots. Can you tell me what the "right way" is to flush periferal lines that aren't running? thanks, Bastian.