Where to keep scrubs at home

[time2change]

Is it wise to keep scrubs (clean ones of course) in the same closet with your regular clothes? I wash them separately but I never really thought about were to keep them. My shoes always stay outside or in my car (bagged with lysol). Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated, and Thank You.

[NeoNurseTX, RN]

They're grouped in my closet..but touching my regular clothes (heh, everything is catagorized..) at home they go in the hamper with my darks..I wash them with my darks...dry w/ the darks.. shoes go into the foyer and that is as far as they go in, though! I really don't feel that dirty after work. I do NICU and when I hold the kids, I have a gown or blanket in between me and them.

[Tolos]

"Is it wise to keep scrubs (clean ones of course) in the same closet with your regular clothes? I wash them separately but I never really thought about were to keep them. My shoes always stay outside or in my car (bagged with lysol)."

When I worked at the hospital I kept my shoes at the doorstep. My scrubs go into the drawers with other clean clothes. One nurse at the hospital told me she went to her doorstep to put on her shoes not knowing a scorpion was in it. She got stung!!!!!