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Thanks for everyone's reponses! I have noticed staff morale dropping since this started to be enforced, what's odd about our facility is most of the surgeons aren't employees of the hospital they are employees of a private clinic so they can't enforce this rule to the surgeons or there assists.

Our facility recently changed it's policy on cloth scrub caps, previously a company would launder both our scrubs and person cloth hats, but after changes companies the hospital and outside company refuse to wash our hats. Our department policy states that we are allowed to wear cloth scrub hats IF the hospital will launder them, which they won't, or you can where your cloth hat, but also must wear a disposable bouffant over it. This has a lot of our staff members very unhappy, I was wondering if other hospitals were also moving towards this policy and if so can anyone make a recommendation on what could be done to make both parties happy (I understand the disposable hats over cloth hats may seem like the only compromise, but im curious for outside opinions).

I have been working in the OR for 6 weeks now (wooh, plus an internship I completed in the unit to complete my BSN). Part of my orientation process included a week solid working in SPD putting together all the instruments for cases, helped me greatly. Starting in spine next week through my rotation, wish me luck!