Wearing scrubs to clinicals...

[guiltysins]

So I know this is kind of a random thought but of course like all nursing students, you have to have scrubs in the hospital. Now when I'm out I see a lot of people who wear them to the hospital. Am I the only one who has a problem with this? I start nursing classes next year and I was just thinking about it. I'll be using public transportation so that means taking buses and trains to the clinical sites and our scrubs are all white. I'm so paranoid of the kind of stuff might get on my scrubs by the time I get to the hospital and then what happens when its raining outside. I know students do it because they say there aren't any places to put your things at the hospital but it just seems so germy to me.

[shrimpchips, LPN]

I also wear mine to the clinical site. During my OB rotation, however, they made us wear regular clothes into the hospital and then we would change into scrubs at the clinical site. We had a locker room where we could change and lockers where we could put all of our stuff. The rationale was that they didn't want us to track in "germs" on the maternity units, especially when babies don't have strong immune systems like we do.

[DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN]

In our clinical we have one day which is data collection -- no client contact. We can wear business casual or our scrub uniform. One person comes from work and wears their scrubs from work....very gross. You would think that the instructor would say something but nope.

Then again she says nothing about the girls with the blade-like log fingernails. They're [painted bright pink, not like you can't notice them.

There's my vent for the day.

[deleern]

the OB nurses and ICU nurses where scrubs provided by the hospital. R/T infection control and security.

[DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN]

the OB nurses and ICU nurses where scrubs provided by the hospital. R/T infection control and security.

Just curious -- what is the security issue?

[~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN]

I don't know about ICU but I am assuming OB is to know who is supposed to be there to prevent baby theft. 2 of my kids I had at civilian hospitals it was all very secure and all the OB staff had different scrubs then the rest of the hospital. There was a lot more in place secure wise but it was a method to also right away spot who should be there.

[HyperSaurus, RN, BSN]

I wear mine to the clincal site--but mine are royal blue. We look like smurfs But, in all seriousness, there's no room to change. The sweatpants over the scrubs sound like a good idea though.

[DolceVita, ADN, BSN, RN]

But smurfs are cute!

[Sarah Hay]

Dressing room.