http://scrubsmag.com/whats-in-your-scrubs-pockets/ The lifestyle magazine for nurses featuring career articles, style tips, and nurse blogs. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:49:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://scrubsmag.com/whats-in-your-scrubs-pockets/comment-page-1/#comment-1433 Rhonda G. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:20:44 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=8596#comment-1433 I really like the dynamic between Dr. Brady and Nurse Rebekah. Working in a teaching hospital, I am always surrounded by MDs of various experience levels from medical students to residents to fellows and attendings. I will say that today so many resources are packed onto PDAs for easy access that seeing a resident with pockets overflowing with books is a rare sight. However, you can always tell by the deer-in-the-headlights look :) I have also heard rumors that the length of the white jacket indicates how experienced the person may be as well, but have not researched that enough to know if that's true. And I do think you will find more residents in scrubs than, say, attendings- which would make sense because the residents are doing more patient care for the most part. And in the very first paragraph of Nurse Rebekah's response, I think she brings up a great point about the amount of commonly used hospital items (stethoscopes, ties, shoes, etc) that are completely contaminated from patient to patient and can be a transmitter of many germs. I did some research once on disposable stethoscope covers for those patients that have MRSA and found that they do indeed exist- and now I'm wondering why they are found readily available in the hospitals. I really like the dynamic between Dr. Brady and Nurse Rebekah. Working in a teaching hospital, I am always surrounded by MDs of various experience levels from medical students to residents to fellows and attendings. I will say that today so many resources are packed onto PDAs for easy access that seeing a resident with pockets overflowing with books is a rare sight. However, you can always tell by the deer-in-the-headlights look I have also heard rumors that the length of the white jacket indicates how experienced the person may be as well, but have not researched that enough to know if that’s true. And I do think you will find more residents in scrubs than, say, attendings- which would make sense because the residents are doing more patient care for the most part. And in the very first paragraph of Nurse Rebekah’s response, I think she brings up a great point about the amount of commonly used hospital items (stethoscopes, ties, shoes, etc) that are completely contaminated from patient to patient and can be a transmitter of many germs. I did some research once on disposable stethoscope covers for those patients that have MRSA and found that they do indeed exist- and now I’m wondering why they are found readily available in the hospitals.

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