Uniforms

I hate wearing my scrubs out in public, it just gives people reason to show me their gross and yuckies (ie open wounds and non-healing blisters) having said that i also get a lot of this when i am around anyone that knows that i am a RN, scrubs or not. now i have been known to go to wegmans at 0700 on my way home from work. but i do not like to do this if i have been with a mersa or vre patient during my shift, lest i deposit my pt's germs on the rudabaga's and contaminate my whole city.

I tend to go right home from work when possible. I have on occasion gone else-where (IE: sons hockey game) with a uniform on, but I don't like to take my uniforms (and whatever organisms I have encountered) to public places.

Of course, I can not answer for 'the public' ... but I have not had a negative response from public I have encountered. We are far more aware of what we may be transporting:barf01: than the public and given that, our conscience should be helping lead us to changing or going home as much as possible following a shift.