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How Will You Stop Her Pain? February 2015 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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1 1 4 O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | February 2015 Why Not Have Scrubs Professionally Laundered? Daniel Cook | executive editor united Hospital Services research and common sense show the advantages are too many to ignore. W hen Lynne Gossett, RN, BSN, MHI, got word that her hospital higher-ups were considering letting staff buy their own scrubs and launder them at home, her reac- tion was "No, no, no." The thought of her staff taking home scrubs covered in filth from the OR and then tossing them in the same washing machines as their kids' clothes moved her to dig up evidence that she could use to argue against home-laun- dered scrubs. Ms. Gossett split studies into 2 categories: scrubs that were laundered at the homes of surgical professionals and tested when they came into work, and scrubs laundered by researchers using residential washers and

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