scrubs and ironing

[CT Pixie]

Ok, I know I am probably not the majority, from how I've seen too many disheveled looking, just starting the shift people, but I iron my scrub tops and bottoms.

My mother-in-law thought she'd help out one night while babysitting and she ironed my laundry basket of "to be ironed clothes". I was appreciative as I hadn't ironed in a while since I have an insane amount of scrub tops and bottoms. Anyway, I put on a pair the other day, went to work and got teased beyond belief. I didn't realize it but my mother-in-law put a front crease in my scrubs..it acutally made the scrubs fall nicer and it had a nice, freshly ironed look. I normally don't crease them, I just iron them to get all the wrinkles out (I despise seeing even the littlest of wrinkles, one of my mom's OCD obessions that I seemed to have inherited). I recall a few classmates who always had a front crease in their scrub bottoms, but I never did it myself.

My question is two fold:

A) Do you iron your scrubs

B) Do you put a front crease in them

[patrick1rn, MSN, RN, NP]

I wash and dry mine and they sit in the dryer till I am ready for them

and thats being honest, i wear what ever is clean or cleanest

and it doesnt matter what color they are, they can mismatch, I dont care

Im not color coordinated, I have mostly blue scrubs, a grey pair and a

desert color and some surgical scrubs I got from work

pat

[CT Pixie, BSN, RN]

............. I usually do iron my scrubs, ..... and yes there is front / back crease.......... prob. my age showing... :chuckle

Showing your age?? Oh I don't think so, I am 39..ohh wait, maybe its our generations who do the ironing and creasing :lol:

My mom use to iron everything, towels, wash cloths, hand towels, t-shirts (ohh how I hated having sleeve creases on my t-shirts!!) you name the item and my mom ironed it.

[sassijac]

Never ironed them.........wore the cotton-synthetic mix that comes out wrinkle free from the dryer. I'd never wear wrinkled ones unless I had to replace the one I wore to work because of accidental soiling, from pt not RN :) .

[Hygiene Queen]

I iron and crease... use a little starch too.

My shoes are CLEAN.

I learned this from my grandmother. She was not a nurse. She was a waitress, but she was one hell of a sharp and professional waitress (and, funny, when I think back, the nurse uniform and waitress uniform was not too different from each other at that time... ). She taught me that, no matter what your position, you dress for that position and that send a clear message that you are ready to work.

The sharp uniform and shoes stress cleanliness, I think.

:)

[Iam46yearsold]

Never ironed them.........wore the cotton-synthetic mix that comes out wrinkle free from the dryer. I'd never wear wrinkled ones unless I had to replace the one I wore to work because of accidental soiling, from pt not RN :) .

I dont do synthetics at all. I also dont iron. Thats what a housekeeper is for.

[Absolutely13]

I own an Iron. I think I even know where it is.

I never wear wrinkled scrubs thanks to permanent press. I do admire the creases worn by some of my co-workers, but the other signs and symptoms of OCD are a turn off. :chuckle

[Iam46yearsold]

Is it OCD when someone does it for you. No starch at all please.

[Absolutely13]

Is it OCD when someone does it for you. No starch at all please.

Of course not! You don't do your own laundry, we get it.

Lighten up!

[back2thebooks]

You're using too much starch with too hot an iron, SouthTxRN.

One thing, too, is to use a cloth over dark colors when pressing. It eliminates the shine that old clothing gets when pressed a lot.

Another trick to avoid the shine is to use a paper bag (the old type of grocery bags) over dark colors. My father was a Major in the Army and this is how my Mom took care of his fatigues and dress greens. It works!

My Mom is an obsessive ironer, too. I'm still a pre-nursing student, but I'm sure I'll iron my scrubs someday--it's ingrained in me!

[BabyLady, BSN, RN]

I iron my scrubs but I don't put a crease in them...I iron them in the other direction to avoid the crease.

To me, scrubs look horrible unless they are ironed and look even worse at the end of the work day.

The Grey's Anatomy b/c of the material, you can get it fresh out of the dryer, hang, and you are good to go. But any of the others that have cotton, forget it....it gets the iron.

I do all of my scrubs and iron them in one day so I don't have to fool with it as I wear them.

[caliotter3]

After a military career, I've gone to just getting them clean. I will iron if they stayed too long in the dryer and got too wrinkled. I did enough of the starch, creases, and hot iron routine to last a lifetime I think.

[ghillbert, MSN, NP]

I hate wrinkled clothes. Having said that, I get my scrubs from the scrub machine at work, so my wrinkliness depends on how they come out of the machine. Some days they look like someone stomped them and then put them away.