showering: before or after work

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this might be a weird topic but I am curious. when do you all shower when you're working? and if you shower before work, do you shower again when you get off, then again before you go to work?

As long as I stay hydrated, I don't get dry skin from showering. I also don't take long, hot showers, like my husband does, so that probably helps. I just do my business and get out. Lotion for after shaving my legs, and I'm good.

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I do a nice hot bath before work. I may shower after if I've been into gross stuff. Days off, I may skip a shower and just do a quick wash up at the sink (my husband calls it "a whore's bath", lol). I cannot wash my hair everyday with hypothyroidism.

I've fallen asleep in my scrubs, in the recliner, after work... sooo gross, but no one's died yet.

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Specializes in public health, women's health, reproductive health.

I used to only shower after a shift. Now that I have started exercising before work, I often have to shower before work too because I've been sweating. I don't want to shower twice a day, though. But working out at night when I get home from work is a no go so far.

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Specializes in CVICU.

I usually shower before work. I don't change into regular clothes before entering my house, nor do I have work-specific shoes. I'm more worried about catching a communicable illness at the grocery store than I am at the hospital.

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I usually shower before work. I don't change into regular clothes before entering my house, nor do I have work-specific shoes. I'm more worried about catching a communicable illness at the grocery store than I am at the hospital.

Me too! I have good hand hygiene while I'm working, but I know people out in public don't wash their hands like I do. I can't eat at buffets for this very reason. Grosses me out lol. I shower before work and that's it, unless of course I had an extra gross day or a body fluid got on me. When I get fluids on my body at work, I've been known to take a bleach wipe to my arm lol.

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Specializes in Private Duty Pediatrics.

In the morning I lather up the 'hot spots' with a quick PTA wash (pits, tits & @) for some cursory hygiene, then I take a full shower or bath at night.

FACES & FANNIES, PERIs & PITS.

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FACES & FANNIES, PERIs & PITS.

I always heard it stated as "Pits and slits." :o

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I always heard it stated as "Pits and slits." :o

:eek:

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I used to live in a big old two-story house where my bedroom and full bath were downstairs. The laundry room was there also. I'd come home from work, leave my shoes in the garage, go down the stairs pulling off my scrubs which I threw in the washing machine, and then head straight for the shower.

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I used to live in a big old two-story house where my bedroom and full bath were downstairs. The laundry room was there also. I'd come home from work, leave my shoes in the garage, go down the stairs pulling off my scrubs which I threw in the washing machine, and then head straight for the shower.

Very efficient!

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
I always heard it stated as "Pits and slits." :o
I've always heard it referred to as the "pits, tits, and all the goodies behind the clit."
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I've always heard it referred to as the "pits, tits, and all the goodies behind the clit."

OMG. Lol, I had told my DH about the pits and slits, and he always gets it wrong and says pits and clits. I told him to just STOP IT if he can't remember it right. Ha ha, I'm NOT going to tell him about your post above. :D

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