Let’s face it, having to wear scrubs on a daily basis can lead to fashion hum drums. While you can shake things up a bit by wearing bright colors and patterned scrubs, you may be relegated to wearing a specific color based on your position in the hospital or health care facility. Your hospital may let you make a bit of a fashion statement with your scrubs but you want to make sure no matter what you do, you don’t become a scrubs fashion faux pas.Being professional and dressing professionally is something you want to strive for every day. Avoid coming to work with stained and mismatched scrubs or scrubs that are held together with safety pins. Your scrubs will likely get pretty stained on a daily basis and that is unavoidable, but that, in addition to other fashion blunders are something you need to avoid.
One major blunder to avoid is showing too much. Consider what your front view looks like when you’re bending over in front of a patient or his or her family. You don’t want them seeing your cleavage. If that is a problem with your scrubs, you need to wear a scrub top with a higher cut or wear a shirt or tank top underneath. This goes for men as well.
Stains and myriad unhygienic substances and blood are all part and parcel of working in a hospital. You don’t want to announce to your current patient, however, that you’ve just been in a setting with the prior patient in which you’re covered in stains. Scrubs need to be sanitized and cleaned every day without fail.
Do a mirror check test before you leave your home. Bend and stretch to see if your scrubs are pulling, tugging or exposing major amounts of flesh. If you’ve gained or lost weight you definitely need to make certain your scrubs still fit. Also, where will you “wear” your pants – above or below your waist? Make sure the length of your pants fits where you will wear them on your waist.
No matter what style of scrubs you wear, you will want to wash them according to the manufacturer label and wash like colors together so they fade evenly. You don’t want your navy scrubs, for example, to fade unevenly or you will look ill-put together when walking around the hospital. Professionalism is the order of the day, especially if you’re working in a hospital with sick patients.
