When did wearing a stethoscope become popular

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I have heard the wearing a stethoscope around your neck damages the tubing because of the oils in your skin. So when did wearing a stethoscope around the neck become popular? I know as nursing students we all do it because we want everyone to know were in nursing school and we think it looks cool. I see some nurses wearing their's around their neck and some just leave it somewhere.

Specializes in med/surg tele, postpartum, mother baby.

I always keep it around my neck instead of leaving it at the nurses station because if I put it down I will either forget it and it will magically disappear, or something will come up and I will need it. AND it makes me look cool :cool:

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Specializes in Critical Care, Med-Surg, Psych, Geri, LTC, Tele,.
I believe you can buy replacement Littman tubing, and it's not very expensive, even for their high-end 'scopes.

I did replace my littman tubing when an ink pen broke open and stained it while it was in my clinical bag. It was less than the cost of replacing my entire stethoscope.

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