Our facility is having issues with staff reporting skin sensitivity related to wearing hospital laundered scrubs (mandatory for our OR areas).

Some individual managers have allowed staff to launder their scrubs at home and carry them in a bag to their work area, to change into them once they arrive to their work area.  Our Infection Prevention department has issues with the bacterial burden that remains on items laundered at home and want to create a new process.

 

How do other facilities handle these staff issues?

What procedures does your staff use to launder their scrubs?

Do you allow them to launder them at home and carry them in to change once they arrive to their work area?

Does anyone have their Sterile Processing department ‘sterilize’ the home laundered scrubs?

 

Nancy Epps CMSRN, BSN, OCN

Clinician, Employee Health Services

Tampa General Hospital

Phone (813) 844-8003

Email: nepps@tgh.org

 

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