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Does anyone have recommendations for jackets? I've had a fleece jacket since residency and it's time for a new one but I'm terrible at shopping for clothes.
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I'm actually going to my local scrub shop here in an hour or so to look at white coats made of wrinkle-free material. I'll post what I find.
Other than that, scrub pants, white cool base tee shirt. Lightweight shoes. Your favorite socks and underwear.
How often are you getting fecal material on you? I wore a fleece all through residency and never got anything on it. If I did something bloody or gross, I was either sterile/in a gown of some sort, or the fleece came off. Or both obviously. I'm not advocating wearing expensive crap in the ED (my current go to pullover cost maybe 50 bucks 3 yrs ago) but I feel like keeping relatively clean isn't hard.Honestly I see people wearing fleece jackets in the ED and it really blows my mind. Why are you going to wreck your a sweet Patagonia or Mountain Hardwear jacket just to look cool.
If it's getting cold in the department, you should put on some cheap water wicking shell material from Costco or some other place that you won't be devastated if you get fecal material on it.
This.How often are you getting fecal material on you? I wore a fleece all through residency and never got anything on it. If I did something bloody or gross, I was either sterile/in a gown of some sort, or the fleece came off. Or both obviously. I'm not advocating wearing expensive crap in the ED (my current go to pullover cost maybe 50 bucks 3 yrs ago) but I feel like keeping relatively clean isn't hard.
Call me old but I don’t understand the fleece jacket thing in the ED. It’s known to harbor more bacteria. It looks unprofessional. It hides stains like vomit, feces, blood, that you don’t realize are on you. Wear a white coat and leave it at work when you are done. Better protection and you can actually see when something is on you
How often are you getting fecal material on you? I wore a fleece all through residency and never got anything on it. If I did something bloody or gross, I was either sterile/in a gown of some sort, or the fleece came off. Or both obviously. I'm not advocating wearing expensive crap in the ED (my current go to pullover cost maybe 50 bucks 3 yrs ago) but I feel like keeping relatively clean isn't hard.
It's so unprofessional that every resident wears one to the point that nurses and even pracks have started copying the style. Sometimes they even get the hospital to shell out for their style biting desires.
I'm sure that your patients appreciate the vomit, feces, and blood on your white coat from your previous patients.
Well if that's the standard we're using...Well if you see it you can take it off or clean it. Not walk around with a dirty coat on. If you don’t know it’s there think about how gross that is.
Not every resident. Where I trained it was banned as an infection control risk...
Medelita looks like they might have some interesting scrub pants (would like pockets.) May try that out. Also, nice humblebrag about how you've gotten too ripped to wear your old clothes.Not because I don't like them but because they have gotten kind of tight and uncomfortable across the shoulders and arms. I need to go up a size.
Medelita looks like they might have some interesting scrub pants (would like pockets.) May try that out. Also, nice humblebrag about how you've gotten too ripped to wear your old clothes.
it separates me from everyone else in the department (nurses, techs, pharmacy, etc.).
Does anyone have recommendations for jackets? I've had a fleece jacket since residency and it's time for a new one but I'm terrible at shopping for clothes.
I have been squirted in the face with blood while exploring a scalp wound. I have given narcan and gotten puked on. I have pulled multiple people out of cars in the front of the ambulance bay after they've been shot and gotten covered in blood. I've put in a chest tube for a hemothorax and forgot to clamp the tube before putting it in and had blood poor out over my shoes and scrub bottoms. I've delivered a baby on an EMS stretcher and had amniotic fluid pour down my leg into my socks and shoes.
Are some of these my fault? Probably most of them are. I'm not very agile in the ED. Regardless, the opportunities to get covered in bodily fluid are endless.
But to answer your question, I have not gotten feces on me.
Personally I prefer to rock blood stained scrubs. Patients rarely complain about the wait in that case.At least if you get nasty stuff on your fleece jacket, you can just take it off for the rest of the shift and wash it.
If you get it on your scrubs, then you have to get new scrubs and can't do anything until you get new scrubs. You aren't going to go into another patient room with blood all over you.
I wore my white coat as a resident during M+M and that was it. I have never worn it as an attending. Almost none of my co-attendings wear one either.Do ED Docs wear like a traditional Doctor white coat much anymore? Or is it all scrubs with a white coat over it, if they even wear the white coat
I wore my white coat as a resident during M+M and that was it. I have never worn it as an attending. Almost none of my co-attendings wear one either.
I wear scrub pants and a t-shirt, +/- a fleece/pullover depending on the temp.
Never had anyone comment on my attire in a negative way. Honestly, if you're in the ED and you have the wherewithal to 1: notice what I'm wearing and 2: be offended by it... you probably don't need to be in the ED anyway.
I wear my white coat. The only stains it has are coffee and ink stains under the pocket, unfortunately. I get it dry cleaned periodically. I find the pockets handy, it already has my name monogrammed on it, and is enough to keep me warm. If I'm going to be doing a procedure or worried i'll get exposed to some body fluid, I take it off.