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Home-Laundered Scrubs

Healthcare Laundry: What It Means to Be 'Hygienically Clean'

As spring draws ever near, thoughts turn to cleanliness, and I’d like to take a moment to invite you to download a new and exclusive report exploring the connection between healthcare textiles and infection transmission. ...More
March 8, 2011
Posted in Blog, PPE & Standard Precautions
Updated Surgical Attire Recommended Practice Takes Stronger Stance, Nixes Home Laundering

Although it has always recommended institution laundering of surgical attire, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) is unequivocal on this position in its newly revised Recommended Practices for Surgical Attire, due for release this month. ...More
October 19, 2010
Posted in Articles, PPE & Standard Precautions
AORN Recommending Facility Laundering of Surgical Attire

In a session held at the 57th annual AORN Congress today, Melanie Braswell, a member of AORN's recommended practices review committee, introduced the 10 recommendations AORN is making regarding surgical attire, updated from the previous seven recommendations. ...More
March 15, 2010
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization, PPE & Standard Precautions
Study Shows Bacterial Contamination Associated With Home-Laundered Surgical Scrubs is Significantly Greater Than Other Options

A study comparing the aerobic bacterial bioburden associated with surgical scrub attire shows significantly greater contamination among home-laundered attire than scrubs laundered by the healthcare facility, scrubs sent out by the facility to a third-party company for ...More
January 8, 2010
Posted in News, Disinfection & Sterilization, PPE & Standard Precautions
Bacterial Contamination of Surgical Scrubs and Laundering Mechanisms: Infection Control Implications

By Carolyn L. Twomey, RN, BSN; Heather Beitz, BA, MEd; and Helen Boehm Johnson, MD Objective: To assess the bioburden associated with surgical scrub garments separated into eight categories based on single-use/re-usable status, use status (prior to use versus after ...More
October 19, 2009
Posted in Articles, PPE & Standard Precautions
Hospital Scrubs are a Dangerous Fashion Statement

The Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID) announces it is calling on all hospitals in the U.S. to provide clean uniforms or scrubs for their personnel and to bar medical workers from wearing uniforms outside of hospital buildings. “You see them ...More
December 3, 2008
Posted in News
Coming Clean on Home Laundered Scrubs

Coming Clean on Home Laundered ScrubsRuth LeTexier, RN, BASN, PHNUniforms in healthcare have changed significantly over time. One used to be able to enter the hospital and easily recognize a nurse by the starched white uniform with the mandatory cap in place. Today, one ...More
October 1, 2001
Posted in Articles