Should hospital provide and launder scrubs?

[Kitty Carlisle]

I'm looking for feedback re: Does your ED mandate a particular color uniform? Who launders your scrubs? Who pays for your scrubs? ED staff is exposed to more blood and body fluids than any other dept. My dept. currently requires black scrubs, that we are to purchase, and launder. Thus, we are transporting biohazardous materials home in our cars, whether we wear them home or change at work. Then, some of us stop at the grocery or drycleaners in our biohazards. Then, we place the biohazards in our regular Kenmore, with our family's laundry. Just curious if anyone else is dealing with this.

[ppfd, BSN, EMT-P]

I am in far more disease and garbage in my day job as a firefighter/medic than I am as a ED nurse I do as a side job.

My routine, I go straight to the basement, take off my work shoes and uniform/scrubs, and these get washed separate from the rest of the laundry.

My ED is really laid back. We buy all our own scrubs. We can wear t shirts, sweat shirts, etc, as long as they don't have offensive writing or pictures on them.

[R. Obias Jr., R.N.]

I'm looking for feedback re: Does your ED mandate a particular color uniform? Who launders your scrubs? Who pays for your scrubs? ED staff is exposed to more blood and body fluids than any other dept. My dept. currently requires black scrubs, that we are to purchase, and launder. Thus, we are transporting biohazardous materials home in our cars, whether we wear them home or change at work. Then, some of us stop at the grocery or drycleaners in our biohazards. Then, we place the biohazards in our regular Kenmore, with our family's laundry. Just curious if anyone else is dealing with this.

I would just like to cite one instance that occurred here in our country, an emergency case of a child came into the hospital, nurses and doctors attended to the patient, requested lab tests to determine the patient's condition, without getting the lab results yet the attending doctor went home to her family wearing the same laboratory gown that she was using while she was attending to the patient, first thing she did was to embrace her 10 year old daughter when she arrived home, within the 24 hour period the doctors daughter died, it turned out that her daughter died of meningococcemia which was the same disease the doctors patient had at the hospital, both her daughter and the patient died the next day, this just shows the danger of bringing our scrubs outside the hospital premises, with these reason , the hospital should be responsible for providing the scrubs for its employees and also for the laundering of the scrubs to avoid spreading contamination of innocent people...