Showing posts with label nurses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nurses. Show all posts

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Doctors and Nurses Can Look Hot in Scrubs

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Everyone knows that doctors, nurses, and medical professionals all wear those same uniforms that are called scrubs. Most people think of the same color of blue when they think about scrubs that they have scene a doctor or nurse in. And, in addition to the blue they think of the white that is associated with nurses and nursing staff. But, these days the same old same old blue and white are really things of the past. Now there are so many different varieties of scrubs that a doctor and nurse or medical professional can look really hot in their scrubs. You can find a huge selection of scrubs for people of all sizes too including pluz size scrubs that will make even larger women and men look and feel good. Scrubs can be very fun to wear and to mix and match as well.



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Even the scrub jackets that doctors and nurses wear have a lot more variety. You can find a lot of variety in print scrub jackets and a lot of options as far as jackets go too. There are so many different styles of jackets. The scrub wardrobe has really morphed into the general population and culture too. You can often times find people from teenagers to the everyday house wife to just a young or older guy wearing scrubs around. Scrubs are generally very comfortable and great to wear. They offer ease of movement and comforts that regular clothes and pajamas even cannot compare to.

A medical professional can really complete the look and increase the hot or the wow factor by adding a great print scrub top into their wardrobe. Doctors, nurses, and medical staff can really have a lot of fun in choosing and selecting tops and matching them with pants and jackets too. The right combination can really make you look and feel great. It is certainly true that if you like what you are wearing you will feel that much better about things and your outlook will be a little more positive too.

What any medical professional really should do is gather together a great collection of scrubs wear including pants, tops, jackets, and accessories too. Depending on the given mood, time of year, or job you could mix and match lots of different things to best express and compliment yourself. A wide variety of color and prints to mix and match is best and it is probably a better idea to mix a print with a solid color and to layer solid colors over prints or prints over solid colors.

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Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Traditional Nurses Uniform Versus Nursing Scrubs

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When you first think of the words nurses' uniform, what images conjure up in your head? Perhaps you think about the more traditional nurse in a dress and cap. You might think of a nurse as simply wearing a pair of barco scrubs. Some of you might first think of a nurses Halloween type costume. Whatever images first come to your mind, the nurses' uniform has undergone some major changes within the last century.



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Some of the first nurses' uniforms were actually quite similar to that of a nun's habit. This is due to the fact that nuns used to be the ones who attended to the sickly people, therefore the nurses uniforms were made in a similar look. In general, a nurse's old style uniform consisted of a dress with an apron and a cap. This style seemed to stick around for quite some time with just a few minor changes over the years.

Here within the last twenty years, nursing scrubs have become more popular than the more traditional nurses' uniform. In addition to being easier to clean than the dress and apron, scrubs are generally more comfortable to wear. Nowadays scrubs are worn by generally the entire medical profession. Surgeons, pediatricians, dentists, and veterinarians just to name a few all usually wear scrubs.

Although scrubs are generally worn and accepted by those in the medical profession, there are those people who like wearing the scrubs, and there are those who would rather wear the traditional nurses' uniform. Those who would rather wear the traditional uniform generally believe that wearing scrubs is like wearing your pajamas to work. They also feel that their patient's would be able to recognize them as nurses in the traditional garb versus wearing the scrubbs that even the housekeeping staff wears. Those who prefer the scrubs believe that they are much more functional when it comes to comfort. They are also trying to dislodge the stereotype for nurses that the traditional garb often generates. Not to mention that in today's world, there are many male nurses in the field who would obviously be offended by the traditional garb.

Whichever side of the fence you happen to be on depends on your own personal style. In most cases it also depends on which generation you belong to. The traditional nurses' uniform now seems to be a blast from the past. However, there are still some countries in which they still wear the traditional uniform rather than scrubs. Either way, the nurses that provide us care each and every day deserve our utmost respect and thanks for doing their hard jobs. Without nurses most of us who walk into a hospital's emergency room would be missing out on the genuine care that only nurses seem to provide.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

The Caregiver Needs Caregiving - A Nurse's Cry

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I have worked in the field of nursing for over twenty years. I have been an R.N. (a real nurse). I never heard that phrase until I began working in the hospital setting. Actually, it was an L.P.N. (Licensed Practical Nurse) who referred to R.N.'s as the "real nurses." Well, if my memory serves me correctly, when I was a graduate nurse working at Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point, New Jersey back in 1984, it was the L.P.N.'s who showed me the ropes of how to be a "real nurse." But that was years ago, over twenty to be exact. I am certainly no longer a graduate nurse, but I have graduated to the growing number of nurses suffering from burnout. Too many days of not enough nurses. Too many demands
for turkey sandwiches and ice water . . . when you haven't even medicated a post-op patient. I have learned that the turkey sandwich and ice water mean ever bit as much to an incapacitated patient than the pain medication that needs to be administered. So, you take a good look around to find "someone" to help you. There is no one. YOU are it.



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YOU are it day after day, shift after shift. Your eight hour shift turns into a nine or ten hour shift. Your twelve hour shift . . . well we won't even go there. On second thought, I will go there. A twelve hour turns into a fourteen hour shift. I must ask, "Who works like this?" I mean steady working. Sometimes no breaks that is, unless you are a smoker (no offense smokers). Somehow smokers find the time
that non smokers can't seem to find to leave a floor for fifteen minutes or so every hour and a half. I used to get upset but I don't even get upset any more. It is how they cope. I seriously thought about taking up the nasty habit just so I could escape like the smokers, but I value my lungs far too much. So, I don't pay it any more attention when nurses leave, dragging on their Winston's (if they still make
them . . . I wouldn't know as a non-smoker).

A great friend of mine, who I met when I was a home health nurse, got to the point where
she didn't want to go to work any longer. She dreaded work. I used to think, "Poor thing." Well, at the time, I didn't know I was next in line to becoming the "poor thing."

Burnout happens slowly but when the final stage of it appears, it smacks you in the face and knocks you down flat. You become like a child who screams, "I don't want to go to school!" (but in your case it is work) Unlike the child, you have responsibilities and many of them. You can't just shut down.
But, there is something greater than responsibility that hollers out, "If you don't stop, you are going to really lose it, and I mean lose it." Before the end of burnout comes around, you begin to get the dreads. You literally dread going to work. Look it up in Websters: "a profound and deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and despair in the free human being.".

Let one or ten more things compound this feeling of dreading your job and you are like a sinking ship. That is, unless you throw up your hands and say, "I need help." "I really can't do this any longer." So, you call your work. You take a deep breath. "I can't come in." The "caregiver" needs care--desperately. They write your name as a no show for the next shift. The guilt sets in. At 5:15 the hospital staffing secretary calls to see if you are coming in that day. I learn about the 5:15 call when the 7:15 a.m. call comes. "Are you coming in?" "The floor (the unit where I would have been assigned for that day) is looking for you." There has definitely been a lapse in communication. The pit in my stomach has intensified.

I was awakened by their call for help. It was obvious that my plea was totally disregarded. I call again later in the morning. This time, I speak to a nurse who I think may understand. I explain to her that today is my anniversary, my husband is 1000 miles away asking for a divorce, I have a fourteen year old who every word out of her mouth is, "Can you?", I have a home in Florida that I left to the tenant who has also placed many demands on me, I have daughter who is working on her Master's Degree and who works full time in Child Protective Services who recently had called to tell me she is pregnant, and THEN, there is the hospital calling me at the but crack of dawn after I had already explained to them that the candle is no longer burning. Nobody knows the effort it has been taking for me to do simple things like go grocery shopping, take my daughter to school after she has missed the bus, or just sitting down to pay the bills.

I decide to take control of this situation before it does any further damage. I have to be make myself more important that my job at this point because if I don't take care of myself, I can see that no one else will. I tell the nurse that I won't be coming in today, or tonight (I had scheduled myself 7 a.m.- 3:30 p.m., take an 8 hour break then come back 11 p.m. - 7-3:30 a.m. (all so I can get the hours in so I have more time off)). I tell them I probably won't be coming in for a twelve hour shift on Thursday either. I schedule an appointment with an Employee Assistance Counselor . . . but I can't go in until Tuesday, which is seven days away. I asked the nurse/receptionist, "What am I supposed to do until then?" Her suggestion was this, "Get up in the morning and put your uniform on and just do it." I stuffed the scream and calmly said to her, "I have been doing that for a few months now. Getting up and doing it all over again and again. I am beyond that. I can no longer get up and put my uniform on. I want to keep my pajamas on and do nothing. I want to sit and watch a comedy on television, maybe eat a bon bon or two. ANYTHING, but put a uniform on and go in to take care of five, six or seven needy patients with no nurses aide or patient care tech to help me.

I will go back. But, I will get well first. There is an old adage, physician heal thyself. Well, this is nurse heal thyself. I will get the help I need. A Chaplain at the hospital suggested that I check into a local Holiday Inn (by myself, of course), take a bubble bath and meditate on the Lord's words that He would comfort me and protect me from all harm. He told me that I could rest on the assurance that the Lord knows what I am going through and that He would help me through it.

I will be o.k. I have always been o.k. But burnout sure is scary when it happens. The initial phase is worthy of your attention. When you dread ANYTHING, pay attention. Dread isn't normal. Dread will kill your spirit and take your physical body along with it. If any of this sounds familiar, whatever your profession or job, don't be afraid to ask for help. No amount of money is worth your mind. Your mind is your most valuable asset God has given you. Make arrangements with work. ASK for others to help you. People care about you more than you might think. If you don't have the time off, ask creditors to work with you. Tell them exactly what is going on. You will be surprised at the response. Everyone needs a nurse at some point in their lives . . so it is to their benefit to help you so YOU can help them.

Sincerely, Miriam Susong, R.N.

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Friday, September 16, 2011

Nurses Uniforms - Transformation Through the years

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What is the first image that conjures up in your mind, when you hear the words "nurses' uniforms?" Perhaps in a flash, you imagine a stern-faced woman in a starched white dress and a cap. Nurses wear uniforms to bring about a distinct professional identity as well as guard from contamination. Nurses' uniforms have undergone drastic changes over the last century. Actually uniforms of yesteryears were similar to the ones worn by nuns. The simple reason for that was earlier the nuns would care for patients. Of course, the uniforms of the nurses acquired a similar appearance.



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Nurses uniforms through the years

Nurses in some countries are still forced to wear his old clothes, hats, nurses, aprons and apron. But over the years, many medical centers and hospitals, nurses uniforms has been changed in a material more modern and stylish look. Functional aspects and practical nurses uniforms' were also discussed, along with changesin style and color. White has given way to others of different colors and styles and concepts have been subjected to a uniform change gear if it is a nurse or a nurse uniforms are still considered very important in the clinic or hospital. Not only was the addition of many styles and varieties. There are many different types of uniforms designed for nurses, catering to different tasks, unlike other times when there was only one set of all activities.

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The latest nursing uniforms are different bushes. The aprons are commonly used by nurses when on duty in the operating room. These are easier to clean than the apron and the dress, and even more convenient for users. Scrubs are available in a variety of colors and has a wide variety of styles and sizes. Scrubs are usually comfortable to wear and give a feeling almost of pajamas. The pants have a drawstring with a similar shirt, loose and comfortablehigher.

There are a lot of nurses scrubs and uniforms in all price ranges available on the market to satisfy the tastes and choices of different individuals. There are many online shopping sites, as well as manufacturers and sellers of local shrubs and other forms of nursing uniforms. Customers intending to make a purchase of these items should do so after an exhaustive with regard to the different brands.

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Friday, September 2, 2011

Medical Scrubs reinvented - New nurses uniform

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It's still fear in me having to turn your head and cough with a lady to do a test that was terribly embarrassing. As a child, the idea of ​​going to the office the nurse was awesome. Although I was very sick, I see it in her pure white dress and white shoes with a funny hat was the last thing I wanted to do at school. Things have changed dramatically, both for myself and not afraid to older women, and nurses do not wear white robes andlooking for funny hats. If nurses are to be in uniform, now wear clothes, color-coordinated. The History Brush is interesting from the medical point of view.



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It 's always been the nurse who wore the uniform. Doctors have their clothes, even during the operation until it began to cover the clothes with what looked like a butcher's apron. That kept your clothes clean of blood and body fluids. During this period, the nurses wore clothes that set them apart from their doctors.As the medical profession learned more about the cleanliness and bacteria have begun to change clothes to try to eliminate the possibility of infection, as far as possible. He went first to white, but that did not work too well, because the blood was so bad against the black and white was too bright in the operating room. The green color changed so that the contrast of the blood was not so alarming, and I thought it was evil in the sight of all. Green worked for a while 'Then the police took the fashion and things began to change. The transformation started slowly with a couple of options, mostly blue, and then added some cartoon characters and wash a couple of top flower children to feel better and then exploded.

Now, there may have been a key factor, but people, normal people, not the doctors began to want to wear this comfortable. It 's almost like having a slumber, have a cablepants and shirt only a loose top. That the explosion may have helped to have more options, but it is difficult to do statistics. Whatever the reason, from white to green, everything that has been a booming industry for some.

There are a variety of medical uniforms or cheapest available for those who want a different look you can find something fashionable scrubs Landau scrubs Katherine Heigel or doctors. By searching online scrubs, nurses and other medical professionalscan look good and feel good about how options are expanding rapidly as other fashion items. Of course, those who are not in the medical profession can also choose from the vast collections available by simply scrub scrub stretch fabric and more. You see bushes everywhere. Another reason of insanity may be that there are several television programs which is more or less all the actors wear. There is also a TV show called "Scrubs." Must have had an impact on the alreadybooming industry. The change has been a wonderful year for those of us who did not like the old uniforms for one reason or another.

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