Hospital Scrubs are a Dangerous Fashion Statement
Hospitals are constantly looking for ways to combat the new, deadly superbugs and the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) has announced a new precautionary step to help reduce the spread of disease.
RID is urging all hospitals in the U.S. to provide clean uniforms and scrubs for their employees and to ban employees from wearing their uniforms outside of hospital settings.
“You see them everywhere: nurses, doctors and medical technicians in scrubs or white coats,” says Betsy McCaughey, PhD, chairman of RID. “They shop in them, take buses and trains in them, go to restaurants in them, and wear them home. What you can’t see on these garments are the bacteria that could kill you.”
RID has valid arguments on why enforcing this rule is necessary:
1) Just because uniforms look clean, doesn’t mean that they are clean.
2) Dirty uniforms put the patients at risk but research also shows that clean uniforms reduce the spread of infections.
3) Many U.S. hospitals ignore the dangers of contaminated uniforms, but in the UK, health officials are a step ahead.
4) The danger to the public is increasing.
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RID is urging all hospitals in the U.S. to provide clean uniforms and scrubs for their employees and to ban employees from wearing their uniforms outside of hospital settings.
“You see them everywhere: nurses, doctors and medical technicians in scrubs or white coats,” says Betsy McCaughey, PhD, chairman of RID. “They shop in them, take buses and trains in them, go to restaurants in them, and wear them home. What you can’t see on these garments are the bacteria that could kill you.”
RID has valid arguments on why enforcing this rule is necessary:
1) Just because uniforms look clean, doesn’t mean that they are clean.
2) Dirty uniforms put the patients at risk but research also shows that clean uniforms reduce the spread of infections.
3) Many U.S. hospitals ignore the dangers of contaminated uniforms, but in the UK, health officials are a step ahead.
4) The danger to the public is increasing.
Click here to view the full story
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