what are these yellow gowns for?

[meghan91]

i was in the ICU during work last night and the nurse ans nurse extern were wearing these long fabric yellow gowns with stripes down the front of them (if that helps in telling me what they are) the patient wasnt isolation thought because i was not made to gown up before going in the room to take the patient to the floor. I was just wondering why they wore thoes and not just regular isolation gowns like the blue plastic type of gowns?

thanks everyone

[glutton4punishment]

we are getting the yellow fabric gowns, and I cant wait. the blue plastic ones make me schweaty! The blue ones will, however, still be worn whenever there is a chance of body fluid splatter........hmmm

[dreamingofbeing]

I've worn blue plastic disposable gowns, yellow disposable gowns, and yellow cloth gowns that were laundered all for isolation purposes.

[DA314]

At my hospital they do not allow staff to wear labcoats into the icu areas. We all use the yellow fabric gowns if we get cold. We use the blue plastic gowns in iso rooms. The doctors will also wear the yellow gowns into the icu rooms to prevent spreading germs to critical pts.

[luvmydogs84]

At my hospital we have the blue plastic gowns for isolation patients and the yellow cloth ones for patients on chemo precautions

[nerdtonurse?, BSN, RN]

At night, sometimes your body temp falls around 0300, and I've seen nurses throw on a yellow gown because they are cold...

[MKS8806]

We have yellow fabric gowns that we can throw on before a lady partsl delivery to keep from getting messy if we want. We have to wear them into the c-section room over our scrubs if our scrubs are brought in from outside the hospital to maintain sterility.

[xtxrn, ASN, RN]

My hospital is "Going Green" by switching over to fabric gowns - these are yellow with stripes on them. So, that could be what's going on? Maybe she was, like you said, bleeding. Regarding the blue gowns, this sounds like the Dr was doing a bedside procedure (PICC insertion, for example) with the help of the nurses.

JMHO, and definitely no anything against LuxAeternaRN..... I think going green is great. But reusable protective gear (other than eye wear which can be sanitized with the wipes) is a lousy idea. Sort of like the reusable bedpans- even for the GI bleed poop. Just a gross out thing for me .:barf01:

[xtxrn, ASN, RN]

We have yellow fabric gowns that we can throw on before a lady partsl delivery to keep from getting messy if we want. We have to wear them into the c-section room over our scrubs if our scrubs are brought in from outside the hospital to maintain sterility.

How are the fabric gowns kept sterile before you put them on?

[MKS8806]

Its kind of a backwards thing if you ask me, because they arent. They are just kept in an open box that we quick grab out of when we run to a c-section. They are laundered in the hospital though and they have a thing about only wearing stuff in the OR that is laundered in the hospital.

[PediNurse3]

The only yellow gowns I have seen are for contact isolation and the ones that visitors of patients that are VRE positive are required to wear when they're walking around the hospital. I've never seen any with stripes, but I've also never seen a blue gown, other than the sterile blue gowns and we didn't use those for isolation patients.

Occasionally we would put on a gown if a bigger kid had had a blowout all over the bed or something messy of that nature, even if the patient was not in isolation. Some nurses would also turn them around (open in the front) and wear them as a jacket if they got cold.

[xtxrn, ASN, RN]

Its kind of a backwards thing if you ask me, because they arent. They are just kept in an open box that we quick grab out of when we run to a c-section. They are laundered in the hospital though and they have a thing about only wearing stuff in the OR that is laundered in the hospital.

Oy...what's with the bazillion TV c-secions (reality, not dramas/sitcoms) wearing disposable gowns? I know they're not always sterile, but at least they're one-time use and less likely to be rolling around a washer and dryer that stirred up the used bedpads an hour earlier.... Blechhhhh :)

[PediNurse3]

Oy...what's with the bazillion TV c-secions (reality, not dramas/sitcoms) wearing disposable gowns? I know they're not always sterile, but at least they're one-time use and less likely to be rolling around a washer and dryer that stirred up the used bedpans an hour earlier.... Blechhhhh :)

Reminds me of a time when I worked in the ER and we were getting a big level one trauma in and I told the medical student that she needed to get a gown...she came back wearing a hospital gown over her scrubs. :lol2::lol2: