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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