Proud to be in scrubs??

lsnart · Oct 9, 2014

The price of scrubs. They have so many to choose from. So many beautiful designs. And so go the prices. sheesh!!!!

Danish Nurse · Oct 13, 2014

Wow, consider me very surprised - and a little horrified.

Do you actually have to buy and wash your own scrubs?!

Has anyone ever considered the hygenic challenges that gives?

Where I am from, it would be unthinkable for anyone working in a hospital environment/clinical/wards to bring their dirty scrubs home for washing, let alone wear clean ones going to work....

Wave Watcher · Oct 13, 2014

Like a great, big, shapeless blue whale.

Would you be offended if I said that I laughed and snotted on myself? Too much, just too much. :-)

Wave Watcher · Oct 13, 2014

Wow, consider me very surprised - and a little horrified.
Do you actually have to buy and wash your own scrubs?!
Has anyone ever considered the hygenic challenges that gives?
Where I am from, it would be unthinkable for anyone working in a hospital environment/clinical/wards to bring their dirty scrubs home for washing, let alone wear clean ones going to work....

I am a school nurse but before this job I was a prison nurse, LTC nurse, and an ortho/neuro floor nurse at a large hospital. Always wore my own scrubs....and washed them at home.

NuGuyNurse2b · Oct 15, 2014

I know how to sew so I hemmed my scrub bottoms, the length was simply too long for my legs. And this was a small! these sizes are quite loose use of the words "small" and "medium" - and they were white. See thru white. You saw EVERYTHING from the back when you bend or crouch over, even when you wore white undies it still showed.

sjalv · Oct 15, 2014

Wow, consider me very surprised - and a little horrified.
Do you actually have to buy and wash your own scrubs?!
Has anyone ever considered the hygenic challenges that gives?
Where I am from, it would be unthinkable for anyone working in a hospital environment/clinical/wards to bring their dirty scrubs home for washing, let alone wear clean ones going to work....

The only area in which a nurse would wear hospital-provided scrubs is in the OR. Otherwise, at least in the US, nurses buy their own scrubs and launder them as well.

SeattleJess · Oct 15, 2014

Wow, consider me very surprised - and a little horrified.
Do you actually have to buy and wash your own scrubs?!
Has anyone ever considered the hygenic challenges that gives?
Where I am from, it would be unthinkable for anyone working in a hospital environment/clinical/wards to bring their dirty scrubs home for washing, let alone wear clean ones going to work....

Can I move to where you are????

SeattleJess · Oct 15, 2014

Would you be offended if I said that I laughed and snotted on myself? Too much, just too much. :-)

Okay, now I feel like a great, big, shapeless SNOT-covered blue whale! Tell me it doesn't get any worse!

:woot:

allnurses Guide · Oct 15, 2014

OR, ICU, CCU and ED are provided with scrubs at my hospital. But in the ED, very few of us wear the hospital ones, they don't fit well and rarely have the right sizes on the cart. We have people in some really loud colors, some not so much, the ED gives Tshirts with Trauma Nurse on them when you qualify for that area.

It is a relatively new thing to expect the hospital to provide uniforms (scrubs), we've been doing our own for years.

lulu.girl · Oct 25, 2014

Its really not that serious. I'm a plus size, scrub wearing, fashionista, and u can get cute, brand name sets on Amazon for like $18 a set, plus free shipping. Just know your measurements.

NurseKateC · Nov 21, 2014

I just got a job on a peds unit, so I'm not going to lie. I'm pretty pumped to get to wear fun scrubs.