Why do medical staff wear scrubs?
First of all, a scrub is a garment being worn by medical-related people like nurses, surgeons, medical assistant and so on in an operating room. It serves like a uniform for people on-duty in a medical operation. So why should surgeons and all other medical people involved in a operation need to wear a scrub? Just imagine, the doctors, nurses and surgeons work more than 8 hours a day. And in whatever time it may be, there can be a medical operation going on. These medical staff mingle with different kinds of people including the sick ones. These medical staff are also ordinary people who need to eat, move and go to the bathroom. Just imagine all those invisible stuff that may cling on their clothing.
In an operation, all the staff involve needs to be clean. The scrub uniform that the staff wear makes them clean to go and do a medical operation. The scrubs are designed with no complex pockets and buttons, so there would be no way (well it should be) for dirt and other bacteria to cling on the clothing. But it's an ordinary garment like other uniforms and clothing. At least, wearing scrubs prevents bringing more germs inside an operating room.
Scrubs may be in different colors. On these days, we can see scrubs in light blue or pink in color. We can see every medical staff, even the medical clerks, wear scrubs. There are even designed scrubs usually for clinics for kids, to make the clerks and assistants professional and yet friendly to the kids. What about the cleanliness when doing an operation? If you would notice, any medical staff, and you would say that all of them are wearing scrubs. But you would notice that green scrubs are only worn by people doing a medical operation, on that same moment. There are no other staff that wears that color. It's a color that says, "We're doing an operation... right now." The medical staff that would be doing a medical operation would change to their green scrubs. After the operation, they would change back to their ordinary uniform, may it be a nurse uniform or a scrub with a non-green color. And those scrubs are specially handled by the hospital. Laundry and sterilization of the green scrubs are the hospitals responsibilities. Those kind of scrubs are not being taken home by the wearer.
I hope that answers the question on why medical staff wear scrubs.
In an operation, all the staff involve needs to be clean. The scrub uniform that the staff wear makes them clean to go and do a medical operation. The scrubs are designed with no complex pockets and buttons, so there would be no way (well it should be) for dirt and other bacteria to cling on the clothing. But it's an ordinary garment like other uniforms and clothing. At least, wearing scrubs prevents bringing more germs inside an operating room.
Scrubs may be in different colors. On these days, we can see scrubs in light blue or pink in color. We can see every medical staff, even the medical clerks, wear scrubs. There are even designed scrubs usually for clinics for kids, to make the clerks and assistants professional and yet friendly to the kids. What about the cleanliness when doing an operation? If you would notice, any medical staff, and you would say that all of them are wearing scrubs. But you would notice that green scrubs are only worn by people doing a medical operation, on that same moment. There are no other staff that wears that color. It's a color that says, "We're doing an operation... right now." The medical staff that would be doing a medical operation would change to their green scrubs. After the operation, they would change back to their ordinary uniform, may it be a nurse uniform or a scrub with a non-green color. And those scrubs are specially handled by the hospital. Laundry and sterilization of the green scrubs are the hospitals responsibilities. Those kind of scrubs are not being taken home by the wearer.
I hope that answers the question on why medical staff wear scrubs.
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