We launched this website with a section called “Civilians in Scrubs,” featuring interesting, poignant, sometimes heartbreaking stories about what sometimes happens when you wear your scrubs out in the world. What kinds of reactions do you get from people in the grocery store? In the subway? On the street?
That was before the news that wearing your hospital scrubs home can actually be a hazard. Health officials are concerned that the deadly new ‘superbug’ MRSA spreading in some hospitals can be transmitted unwittingly by those hospital staffers who wear their scrubs outside the building.
Some hospitals are already taking action, requiring staffers to change out of their scrubs before they leave the building. A few are even offering free scrubs laundry services to ensure that people outside the facility aren’t exposed.
Meanwhile, one top scrubs manufacturer has come up with a smart solution: Airtight bags for nurses to transport their scrubs straight from the medical facility to their washing machine.
I’m sorry, but I’m too tired/hot/rushed to change out of my scrubs and into another set of clothes just to go home…. let alone carry a change of clothes with me…I go straight home and change if I want to go grocery shopping or to the mall….especially after work…that’s just gross and like you say, not healthy for other people.
Hi. There is another solution to the hazards of scrubs being worn outside the work area. The airtight bag sounds like a good idea. But what about a uniform treated in such a way that bacteria is destroyed at 99% after one hour (and 66% of it in the first minute)?
Their is one Landau Biosheild scrubs . The fabric is treated and kills the MRSA virus and other bugs. Last thru 200 washings. They are just now getting into the stores.