[nickcarraway]

Maybe medical professionals shouldn’t be shopping and everything else in their scrubs! Try going to the supermarket with out seeing 10 people dressed in scrubs.

[cherry]

maybe you would like to pay for scrubs for nurses and aides and everyone else to wear and maybe provide a nice huge comfy lounge for us to change....until you do, we wear our uniforms to work and we wear them home.....and if you work like a dog all day, you shop on the way home so you don't have to be running our again late at night....

and btw.....please point to one case where anybody contracted MRSA from someone's uniform....

for MRSA there is strict isolation with gowns, masks, gloves and possible eye shields....they are discarded each and every time you leave an isolation room...

we have a case where I work..the family member refuses to wear any protective gear..no gloves, no gown, nothing...this person comes and goes into the active MRSA room, uses the elevator, the bathrooms, goes to the cafeteria and refuses to take protective measures to protect we the staff and you the public, let alone the other sick patients....

and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it....legally, there is no way to force people to obey isolation techniques...

[panaxanax]

nick: I’ve seen the same thing and find it an extremely dangerous practice. But, you have to admit that it does make them look important.

cherry: >>”...we wear our uniforms to work and we wear them home...”<<

Why are you spreading germs from your contaminated ‘uniforms’ throughout the community? FYI, we are not impressed and view such behavior as reckless, to say the least. Take the five minutes and change into your street clothes for the sake of us common folks.

Before you start a flame war I must tell you that both my son and his wife are doctors AND that my wife nearly died from MRSP she contracted while in the hospital. So, save your breath if you plan to educate me us that it is safe to parade around town in your germ-ridden uniforms. Even a mechanic changes his clothes before going home.

[momincombatboots]

I highly doubt uniforms are the main vector, it would be hands splashed in sanitizers. Wash your hands with soap and water.
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• MRSA can live for up to 7 months on dust
• MRSA can live for up to 8 weeks on a mop head
• MRSA can live for up to 9 weeks on cotton (towel)
• MRSA can live for up to 203 days (over 6 months) on a blanket
• MRSA can live on the skin of otherwise healthy individuals, with no symptoms
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Door handles and toilet paper rolls I suspect would be equally contaminated, as would be hair and skin.

[Earthdweller]

There is no place for Nurses and Aides to change their clothing, unless you want them changing over a toilet stall....yea, that's real sanitary.

DOCTORS HAVE lounges AND THEY WALK IN AND LEAVE WITH THE SAME STREET CLOTHES THEY HAD ON WHEN THEY CAME IN.

If you go to visit someone in the hospital, you are carrying all kinds of things on your person when you leave, no matter what. No one should ever do anything but go straight home and shower after visiting or working in a hospital...period.

That said, some of those you see in public in their scrubs are not healthcare professionals...anyone can buy scrubs at Sam's Club. But I do know that some people who work in Nursing Homes especially, who have a careless attitude.

[mad_as_he$$]

MRSA is everywhere in virtually ever hospital in the US. While there have no studies I am aware of specifically regarding transmission from “scrubs” there have been several studies regarding all the junk nurses wear around their necks and Doctors neckties. Both are rife will many forms of pestilence including MRSA. Cleaning in US medical facilities is abysmal and needs to be improved. If crews cleaned with Tea Tree Oil about 90% of MRSA cases could be eliminated. Many of the new state of the art hospitals in places like India have on tenth the infection rate of US hospitals because they are cleaned better.