Whats with the scrubs?

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Why do I keep seeing hospital workers out and about wearing their scrubs? I saw a nurse the other day(she had her name badge on) eating with her scrubs on in Subway and a doctor (same story) in a bar!!!! Whats with that. Has no-one ever heard of infection control? :barf01:

Specializes in O.R., ED, M/S.

I am totally against anyone wearing scrubs outside of the workplace. I have worked in the OR for 30 years and even hate the idea of wearing those pitiful outfits outside in the real world. This goes back to a thread quite awhile ago about staff wearing scrubs. Nurses wear them, aides wear them, PT wears them, even housekeeping wear them. Too confusing for the patient to who is really taking care of them. There really should be a limit on who can wear them in the hospital. I also know people hate the idea of going back to whites but in my opinion white really showed who was who.

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According to hospitals, there has never been significant evidence showing that the uniforms of health care workers carry pathogens. Thus is the reason why scrubs are not laundered and provided by hospitals.

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I am totally against anyone wearing scrubs outside of the workplace. I have worked in the OR for 30 years and even hate the idea of wearing those pitiful outfits outside in the real world. This goes back to a thread quite awhile ago about staff wearing scrubs. Nurses wear them, aides wear them, PT wears them, even housekeeping wear them.

:Melody:

Imagine no more street clothes

It's easy if you try

Imagine all the people

living in their scrubs

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one, maybe someday you'll join us, and the world will live as one...

Okay...think I'm spending too much time on this thread...

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Specializes in NICU, ER, OR.
What do you mean, trivial! I'm studying for my final final and this is my fifth or sixth hour in a 6' x 8' room alone. I'm going out of my mind!

I've got to get some kind of debate going!!!!

What about hats? I think men and women should wear hats again.

In general, or while working????:uhoh3:

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What about home health staff? The agency I'm about to sign on with leaves it up to the staff if they want to wear scrubs or street clothes, but either way they are in homes with all kinds of yucky germs. What are they supposed to do?

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Infusion, peds, informatics.
just don't let stacy and clinton of "what not to wear" see y'all out in your scrubs :nono: :rotfl: :eek:

(i have actually wondered what fashion advice they'd give nurses on how to dress for patient care!)

they had a nurse on a few years ago. i was really interested to see what they would say about her work clothes.

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[color=#483d8b]well, absolutley nothing. didn't cover the topic of scrubs/uniforms one bit. completly left out her work wardrobe.

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[color=#483d8b]i wear scrubs in public all the time. run errands on my lunch hour. go out to dinner in them after work. wear them to class after work. i wear a cover gown for patient contact; i do sometimes get blood all over my shoes, but they are crocs (without the holes :) ) so i just use the saniwipes on them or bleach them down when i'm done with that patient.

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[color=#483d8b]while i agree that they only thing that one needs to do to get contaminated with germs in a hospital is to walk into one and touch the elevator, counters, phones, etc...where does that leave our visitors? we don't give them special gowns to wear (unless the patient is in isolation). docs wear suits to round on patients. they don't change. what about case managers and social workers? ours don't wear scrubs. they have limited patient contact, but they still have patient contact. and they touch the phones, charts, computers. i can guarantee you that they arn't even thinking about changing their clothes when they leave work before running errands, unless they get something on them.

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Specializes in Peds Cardiology,Peds Neuro,Pedi ER,PICU, IV Jedi.
What do you mean, trivial! I'm studying for my final final and this is my fifth or sixth hour in a 6' x 8' room alone. I'm going out of my mind!

I've got to get some kind of debate going!!!!

What about hats? I think men and women should wear hats again.

Ummm...huge NO on that one. Talk about taking a step back.

And to the OP...the only place I'm ever caught in my scrubs is immediately before work going to Subway to get some dinner. It's definitely not my fashion statement of choice...can't say that of some other people...but I digress...

Oh, and a few years ago the lawmakers in Texas attempted to make it a crime to wear your scrubs in public places other than health care facilities...can you say "waste of my taxpayer money??!!!"

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Your post made me sad. If you are unhappy in your work and in desperate need of alcohol after finishing your day, you should get counseling and consider a job change within nursing or another line of work altogether.

oh gosh, our whole floor would need to change our jobs then. we go out for drinks after work quite a bit.

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What do you mean, trivial! I'm studying for my final final and this is my fifth or sixth hour in a 6' x 8' room alone. I'm going out of my mind!

You know, convicts CAN'T be nurses, don't you?

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Specializes in RN, Cardiac Step Down/Tele Unit.

I don't think you should jump to conclusions that someone is spreading germs around when they are out and about in scrubs. Even if you see the RN on the badge, that RN could be a manager with zero patient contact, or in quality or admin and never even touch the patient floors. Yes, sometimes these positions wear dress clothes, but at my hospital they wear scrubs. Heck, they could be doing off-site training classes. I say give everyone the benefit of the doubt unless you see blood/pee/poop dripping from them.

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Specializes in High Risk In Patient OB/GYN.

Originally Posted by firstyearstudent viewpost.gif

Your post made me sad. If you are unhappy in your work and in desperate need of alcohol after finishing your day, you should get counseling and consider a job change within nursing or another line of work altogether.

Did you think that you could judge a seasoned nurse like this and not be set srtaight? Where do you--someone with ZERO nursing experience, get off judging someone like that? Seriously.

The poster never said that s/he goes out for drinks after every single shift, or that s/he needed alcohol to function, or that every day is torture.

I work in antepartum and I generally love my job. But I can tell you, that after a 12 hour shift (know what that's like?) and caring for a woman who just found out that her full term baby died in utero(know what that's like?) as well as a woman with borderline personality disorder that just told her if you don't sneak her an extra percocet, she'll tell the ADN that you molested her (know what that's like?) plus a woman receiving 2 units of blood after an emergency c-section (know what that's like?) and a woman in labor writhing in pain who can't take meds because of prior addiction(know what that's like?) then be chewed out by L&D over a stupid incomplete form(know what that's like?), then as you leave your shift, run into a favorite ex-Pt in the hall from a few months ago who tells you that her NICU baby coded last night and now she has to make funeral arrangements (know what that's like?--are you catching a theme here?) YEAH-sometimes I'd like a friggin drink or two (or 5). And this is coming from someone who drinks maybe once every 2-3 mos.

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