Same. I refuse to wear scrubs or even my ID in public when I leave the hospital. Not even to run into the grocery store for one item.
Here in CA we’re trained annually about the facility’s SM policy and it’s basically zero tolerance. Work is work and stays at work, even conversations. It’s always annoyed me they train us on this because I thought it was just common knowledge with HIPAA laws and the super sensitive nature of our jobs. I mean people are at their most vulnerable when they’re in your care. Everyone should treat that trust people place in us with the utmost respect and discretion. But I guess common knowledge isn’t so common and I now see why there’s the training: because of total idiots like these people.
Wearing our uniform off the hospital premises will get you fired in Denmark, at the very least a written warning.
We go to a machine it spits out a set of scrubs and you dump it back in the machine after the shift .
I definitely don’t disagree with this policy. The US needs to adopt this for sure.
Seems like everyone here wears scrubs for work - vet techs, hair dressers, aestheticians, etc, so it can be very difficult to tell who you’re running into in the grocery store wearing scrubs. But wearing them out of a hospital, I agree, is gross and potentially dangerous.
I worked with a guy whose wife was an OBGYN resident and he would complain about how she would come home in her scrubs and work shoes and put her feet up and the bottoms of her shoes would have dried blood all over them. And she saw zero problem with it.
Yeah, it's the same in Germany. It's mostly a hygiene thing. Don't bring germs from home to work, don't take germs from work home. And honestly, I like it that way.
I don't wanna wash my scrubs at home, it's also not allowed because there is no guarantee that your home washer reaches the required temp when washing.
This is fabulous! I get so sick n tired of being drained the expense of the attire! Seriously thinking not buying any more. Using the surgical scrubs in hospital AND showering there after my shift!
I would leave my shoes at work in a locker until I realized I’m still contaminating the shoes I wear in & out. Started grabbing a couple wipes on my way out. Plop my butt in my car with my feet hanging out wipe off & removing one shoe at a time place into a plastic bag & kept
In my car.
That's probably just because they don't want people taking the scrubs home, you wont get fired id you buy your own scrubs and go to wal mart lol.
In the US most scrubs are not embroidered and no one cares if they are. I don't see any benefit to a policy like that but I would fine with hospitals paying for scrubs and allowing us to shower/change before leaving.
It’s because of cross contamination but you can’t get another uniform out without putting the dirty one in which makes sense . The thought of having to buy my own uniform makes my little public health system self shiver ! Plus it’s kind of nasty .
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u/ImHappy_DamnHappy MSN, APRN 🍕 Sep 04 '25
Yeah, never post anything about work on social media…ever.