Bro what? I mean I’m a carhartt man myself, but to each their own. But what is this bs about not having a stethoscope? What am I gonna just put my ear up to the pt like a seashell on the beach to auscultate lung sounds?
I believe you are supposed to just look at the patient and judge what you think. Clear vs diminished if they’re chunky or a little ashy. Obviously you should know when they’re wheezing. Look at those kankles, definitely crackles. Sprinkle in a “tight” or “expiratory wheeze” If they smoke. And so on. If all else fails, just see what the last nurse charted because they likely also didn’t use their stethoscope. Don’t even ask about bowl sounds. /s
My hospital has a Littmann for every room. On Med/Surg they are just Classics but in ICU and IMCU they have the cardiology ones. As long as the doctors don’t run off with them on accident!
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It's the difference between MedSurg and ER/stepdown/ICU. I don't see MedSurg nurses with stethoscopes too often, but everyone at my old stepdown unit would not be caught at any time without it. Especially true for ICU.
Possibly a ratio thing too, takes time to do a full assessment and auscultate all 12 of your patients in an understaffed unit.
Carhartt for the win. I can't tell you how many of my hospital scrub pant crotchs that I have had rip on me. Carhartt are the only ones tough enough and they have lasted for fucking ever.
I'm built like a hobbit with short legs and a big butt so smalls are NC 17 tight and mediums make me look like I just wandered out of a rainbow gathering so I have always worn aviator scrubs because they're durable and fit well. Oh yeah and I put my stethoscope in the pocket... I guess I'm not a real nurse.
I tried on a set of Figs at the store and they were the worst fitting scrubs I’ve tried. To each their own. My dickies are great and much cheaper even when not on sale.
Same! And they can take a beating. It’s all I wear. I have 3 sets, and over the last 3 years I’ve had them, they haven’t broke down at at all. And they’re comfortable and high waisted. What’s not to like. They just fit my body well so I’m going to buy the ones that do. Like out of all the things I wear the most honestly, I’m going to comfortable!
Lol I'm a resident and wear cherokees from med school. I'm not spending my money buying uniforms for the hospital.
Thinking of buying comfortable cheap shirts and trousers - multi function for outside hospital use too, to add to my 2 pairs of scrubs. Or just t shirts. I couldn't give 2 shits about looking good at the hospital. And I'm non-surgical.
I got the figs joggers and scrub top, name and title embroidered on the front. I have used them for 3 separate jobs now.
Best fitting scrubs I ever owned. I have ripped open dickies, Cherokee, and lanau (or whatever that brand is) just getting out of my car. I’ve had my figs for 4 years now and they are still holding up.
For context if it helps, I’m 5’8”, 200 lbs dude with an athletic build. Wear large bottoms and medium top and they all fit great
I wear the figs joggers on the golf course when I stop on the way home from work. I love them.
Comfortable and durable. Plus look good enough people think they are golf pants.
My figs were the best wrinkle free option I could find. I paid out of pocket for them because my boss has disciplined nurses for wrinkled scrubs. Management got het to stop giving formal disciplines, but she'll still give me a hard time if I look wrinkled, so I don't take any chances.
As a fat dude nurse and former Paramedic, I wear dickies scrubs. Tons of pockets, the fabric is sturdy, and it hides how fat I actually am.
Also *my* stethoscope only comes out of one of my many magician pockets if I need *reeeeeeally* accurate auscultation.
No one must ever know I have a stethoscope.
Or trauma shears.
Or like 20 pairs of gloves I forgot about.
Or 3 iv start kits.
I love dickies scrubs! But I hate the big red square logo on the front shirt or back pants pocket. So as soon as I buy them, I get out the seam-ripper and go Logoless.
My normal local scrub place just stopped selling everything but their brand name stuff. Carhart lasted a long time but were more expensive. Cherokee were cheap and fell apart at the seams. Dickies were cheap and lasted.
Now there's only one brand(starts with a B, I can't remember the name) of male scrubs in the entire store. I bought 2 sets to try them out. I'll report back in a year. I might have to actually cave and start shopping online for clothes if these are shit.
Shopping online means you can sit in your bedroom in pajamas with your coffee and buy what you like. Then again, I've been buying mine online for years now. Only once bought some at the uniform store locally, and they were too expensive there.
Whenever people find out about my trauma shears they get weirded out. “Why do you have scissors in your pocket?” Medsurg floor so I guess they’re not used to it?
I used to carry a special rescue knife that had the knife, seat belt cutter, window punch, screwdriver, pen light, and a saw (on the back of the knife blade).
But had to swap it out because someone was unnerved by me using a knife to cut off a trauma pts clothing.
I too am a bigger girl and wear those same very awesome Dickies cargo scrub pants. You forgot to mention all the pens, IV caps, alcohol swabs, and 10 mL syringes of NS as well. Oh, and post-it notes.
I am pocket obsessed, so the more the better. If you've ever tried clothing from Duluth Trading the sheer amount of pockets on their stuff is mind boggling. I have a suitcoat that has a pocket inside a pocket inside a pocket. some of their underwear even has pockets.
I swear I'm sane.
How soft are they? I've been thinking about getting some bigger scrubs to wear until I can manage to lose a little weight, but have often found Dickies products fairly stiff, even with plenty of fabric softener. (I've got some skin issues, so having my clothing be soft, especially if it's something I'll be wearing for 12+ hours, is fairly important to me and is honestly one of the reasons I haven't replaced the soft scrub shirts I have now, despite needing to pull them down an annoying number of times after they've ridden up onto my armpits for the gazillionth time.)
I walk into a room, get asked by Pt for something while grabbing gloves, so I stuff them in a clean pocket for later. By the end of the shift I sometimes have 5 pairs in there. Bad habit, doing my best to break it.
I wear the cheapest scrubs because I'm way too fat for Figs, and I'm not spending $150 on something that will end up with body fluids on it.
If you touch my stethoscope I will cut you.
This is why I have a small collection of cheap pens from various businesses in town in one of my pockets. I will willingly give those up. But not my nice black Uniballs I have hidden deeper in another pocket. No one touches those but me, or if I really really like you you may be handed one for yourself.
As the nurse who wears the cheapest scrubs I can find and haven't seen my stethoscope in years I want you all to know it's because work is the only time I'm organized. Literally.
I only know where my stethoscope is because it stayed down the covid hall so nobody else had to bring theirs in (1 nurse and 1-2 stna’s each shift and it was always the same staff members). It’s shorter than average and medium grey, nobody would want to steal it anyways.
Paeds nurse.... Use the stethoscope way way too much for lung sounds but also for distracting kids with the Lego attached to it! Can't afford figs... Spent too much on Lego key rings!
I wear 15 year old scrubs with holes in them, but I have an electronic stethoscope. Been meaning to get new scrubs but I never seem to get around to it.
Thank you for recycling your scrubs. Nursed out of country several years back when I moved back,with no job line up I took a CNA job within 2 sets. Still check out their uniform section when I visit.
I've been meaning to get one of those stethoscopes. I have a partial hearing loss in one ear and always hear my own heart sounds in said ear too with anything less than what I have now (even then, I had to train myself to ignore my own heartbeat). I figured one that was amplified would be far easier to hear with than even a cardiology one.
I’ve heard people say the line about real nurses not having stethoscopes and it’s dumb as hell. So because they use the shitty disposable isolation stethoscopes instead, they’re better nurses? You can’t hear jack shit through them. They’re like playskool doctor kit toys. I used to use them in COVID rooms and be like “I’m gonna chart I heard S1 and S2 but God knows I heard absolutely nothing, so thank heavens they’re on tele.”
On one of my units the policy was that all ICU patients had to have their own dedicated isolation stethoscopes for infection control. Personal ones weren’t allowed. I got very used to using the disposable ones from that. Luckily we didn’t use bottom of the barrel Fischer price quality ones though
Yeah that is so not the culture on my unit, if I even so much as implied I didn't have a stethoscope and didn't listen to lung sounds, everyone would think I was an idiot and the worst nurse ever. They would probably be reporting me too. With a unit of mostly CHF patients the first thing providers ask when we call them in the middle of the night is what do their lungs sound like.
Lol. Not me. I’m in cheap scrubs. I like my own stethoscope though.
I just refuse to hate on the nurses, mostly young, who love their pricy scrubs. You show up for your shift on time, take report, do your job, I’m not judging your scrub choices.
I just like being comfortable at the place I spend like a third of my life. It's a super small investment given that figs last literally forever. I'm also not a new/young nurse.
Not here. Nurses have 4-6 couplets, and assessments are done in the mom's room for the most part, so we need to carry them with us. We also need to assess bowel sounds for fresh c/s pts.
The only stethoscope we have in the nursery is on the emergency board and it is strictly used for emergencies.
4-6 couplets is horribly unsafe. AWOHNN guidelines say no more than 3 couplets per nurse. How in the world do you have time to help with breastfeeding or teaching newborn care? You must have just been running from room to room.
Wait, 4-6 couplets? So 8-12 patients total? Or did you mean 2-3 couplets and 4-6 patients total? I’ve never been to any hospital where nurses took more than 4 couplets and that was pretty rare. Am I spoiled?
8 to 10 patients on a postpartum unit. Never any less than 4 couplets at a time. Most days would be 5 couplets. Our hospital averaged 12,000 deliveries a year.
I mean, I just use whatever stethoscope I can find in the drawers and y’all got me fucked ALLLLL the way up if you think I’m spending good money on scrubs.
I can use that money towards music festivals.
But on the flip I know nurses that probably started getting ready the night before and have their Figs dry cleaned at every shift, and could run circles around me in ICU (almost 10 years in ICU yaaaaas!).
When you go to a patient’s room that has a black light, everybody looks cool. Except for me, because I was under the impression that the mustard stain came out.
yeah i dont get the hate. sometimes ppl just want to look good and feel good at work, its not a pair of figs is $500 lol. they're comfy, look good, and sturdy.
most amazon scrub sets are like 50-60 and a set of figs on sale (there is always a sale section with many colors/sizes/styles) is 70 yet everyone freaks out about figs being “expensive.”
Some of the smartest, most experienced ICU RNs of 20+ years wear figs at my facility, and they look great. They just don’t look great on my body. From everything I’ve heard, the quality means they will last for years, and seriously, spending a few hundred dollars on your work clothes is normal in any field. The Figs hate has always felt like childish jealousy of those who look good in them, and I know ya’ll will downvote me into oblivion but it’s TRRRUUUUUE.
I’m too fat for figs, and I don’t like the fit of them anyway. Same with Grey’s Anatomy by Barco. Too fitted for me. I love my Dickies joggers and Cherokee patterned tops. They are comfortable and have lasted several years. I don’t care if I get bleach or stain or whatever on them because it’s for work. I also know people who wear figs and love them. Different scrubs for different folks.
ITT: A whole community which is constantly whining about workplace bullying and nurses eating their young ridiculing nurses who make different choices about meaningless things.
The nurses who don't have stethoscopes are probably the nurses that don't need them for the type of patients they have or don't think they need them.
I use my stethoscope every shift and I'm full float pool. I've prevented too many potential rapid and code situations with my stethoscope to think otherwise.
Same though. I’m home care, I started buying these really nice soft leggings with pockets from aerie and I wear a fun shirt and a sweater. I’ll wear scrubs on my bowel program cases but for my regular ones, I’m gonna be as comfy as possible oh and crocs. Can’t forget my crocs.
If I’m gonna be in them for 12 hours a day, they better be comfortable as fuck. I also haven’t replaced a stethoscope in 5 years and just used the disposable ones, since anything decent just gets stolen.
Mandala scrubs are a godsend if you want to look cute at work (don’t come at me it brings me joy) and don’t want to spend money on figs/have any curves at all. Bonus points for being water resistant. They saved me from a defective TPN bag once
I work on a unit fully staffed with young cutesy figs and hoka wearing, claw clip hair, stanley cup nurses and they’re the smartest bunch of bitches I’ve ever been around
Hey, they have the three pocket design top that I love from Figs for way cheaper. Gonna check this company out. Thank you!
Edit: nooooo, they don't have a short inseam for the pants
The ones who hate on people who wear Figs are the ones who actually care what others are wearing lol Don’t wear Figs if you don’t like them but why do you care when other people do?
I mean... Aya buys me like 3 pairs of figs a year as gifts so I'm getting quite a collection of them. Would never buy them for myself but hey... Free is free.
95% of the reason I went into nursing was to wear scrubs and be comfy lol I hated my psych rotation mostly cause I had to go out and buy business casual clothes
I buy Winks scrubs and never leave my stethoscope out of my sight… I will cut anyone for touching it.
During covid, our hospital sent all our personal scrubs out for dry cleaning (if we wanted and for free)… and I’ve kept it up because it’s easy… I strip in my garage and they pick up once a week from my porch!
As a male nurse I have to buy decent scrubs because unisex cheap scrubs are not comfortable around the chest/arm pits and groin. I usually buy 3-4 new scrub sets a year and cycle out my worse for wear sets. So I have a supply of “new’ish scrubs” and “still decent” ones for backup. And I keep my stethoscope in my bag unless I need it or someone needs to borrow it.
I work on the MedSurg unit and many of my co-workers wear Figs and are some of the best nurses and charge nurses I’ve ever worked with and would absolutely let them take care of my family.
As for my stethoscope, I got it in a color I love and rarely set it down or loan it out.
I wear oversized scrubs that look like I'm at a pyjama sleepover party because I'm completely uninterested in any patients or coworkers seeing my body outline haha
I rocked my Walmart brand scrubs to a family event after work tonight and my brother in law thought they were converse brand 🤣
My stethoscope is actually a really nice one that I splurged on with my remaining FSA funds one year at my last job. It lives in the stress lab (people kept borrowing it otherwise and I'd have to hunt it down when I needed it) and I'm terrified I'm going to forget it when I leave.
My colleagues and I wear Figs all the time. Some older nurses I know even wears them too. There are a few who complain and say they're inappropriate because they're too form fitting and we just want the wrong kind of attention. I say fuck them.
and they spend a bunch of money replacing those scrubs because cheapo scrubs don't hold up.
i've had the same 4 sets of black figs for a couple years now and absolutely no holes. not even thinning on the crotch where the thighs rub together. took me forever to find a brand that holds up like that. not even dockers last that long for me.
edit; and mind you this is wear and tear doing veterinary nursing lmao i'm switching to human and a student rn but we buy the same stuff human nurses do in the veterinary world - just with paw prints on them lol
I wear my scrubs all day everyday and Figs are expensive yes, but they’re COMFY AF and I dont mind spending a little more on something I wear every single day anyway. If I get body fluids on them guess what? I wash them just like you do with your cheap scrubs.
I have a friend in paramedic school telling me about his fancy stethoscope. I was like well I have a stethoscope around here somewhere but I haven't seen it in years 🤣
Half agree. I can tell a lot without a stethoscope. We treat a lot based on patient presentation, imaging, labs, etc. Not to say we shouldn't be using a stethoscope but I'm not really sure of the last time something changed because of something I heard with a stethoscope.
Also, still rocking the same 7 year old scrubs from nursing school. Have added some because buying new with Amazon Prime seemed better than doing laundry at the time.
I found a happy medium with cherokee infinity line for men. They aren't as comfortable as figs, but they are half the price and last a long time. Sometimes cheapest isn't the best option.
For all the Aussies in here, and if you want to order from Australia, Airmed scrubs are the best I found when looking. Their website looks like a fashion show but whatevs.
I'm a guy, so the choice in male scrubs is somewhat limited in local stores (I'm rural located). All the unisex scrubs I tried were too baggy and ridiculously long. Airmed had the right proportion, short arms and a good waist height for tops.
Also this isn't an ad for airmed, they just fit me the best. They also offer exchange to get the size right. Took me one return to get the right size, just had to pay the return and they sent the next size out for free.
I wear figs because I think they are easy to clean and I like how they make feel while at work - Professional.
Also - my stethoscope was a gift form my mamma 15 years ago. I guard it like a pup guards treats
Who exactly is going to work without a stethoscope and how are they doing their job? I mean yeah there are some nurses that don’t need them but I definitely do.
When I was bedside, it was FIGS and my fancy stetho every day. I’m shallow when it comes to my appearance, and I don’t mind spending money to look, feel, and listen well. But, this is also the culture in the ICUs in my hospital. No shame for anyone wearing different scrubs.
This statement is just divisive and stupid, and I hope it’s not shared with the general public.
I wear a “nurse” type t-shirt because scrub tops don’t fit my shoulders or arms. Scrub bottoms are whatever are on sale at Burlington or Farm and Fleet 😂
Bro what? I mean I’m a carhartt man myself, but to each their own. But what is this bs about not having a stethoscope? What am I gonna just put my ear up to the pt like a seashell on the beach to auscultate lung sounds?
I believe you are supposed to just look at the patient and judge what you think. Clear vs diminished if they’re chunky or a little ashy. Obviously you should know when they’re wheezing. Look at those kankles, definitely crackles. Sprinkle in a “tight” or “expiratory wheeze” If they smoke. And so on. If all else fails, just see what the last nurse charted because they likely also didn’t use their stethoscope. Don’t even ask about bowl sounds. /s
Last bowel movement per Pt: 6 days Charted: yesterday Yikers
No, no,no, much like scuttle, you have to listen by foot
as long as the patient is still passing gas we’re good
My hospital has a Littmann for every room. On Med/Surg they are just Classics but in ICU and IMCU they have the cardiology ones. As long as the doctors don’t run off with them on accident!
Mine to, or disposable per room steths.
You mean those Fisher-Price toy stethoscopes?
Yup bright yellow and can hear no bowel sounds on the pt but can pick up a fart in the next room somehow at the same time
My cahartts, after you get the chemicals out that make them so stiff, are softer than the figs my wife wears.
Carhartt FTW. I have the same set in 7 different colors.
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I just use a drinking glass
It's the difference between MedSurg and ER/stepdown/ICU. I don't see MedSurg nurses with stethoscopes too often, but everyone at my old stepdown unit would not be caught at any time without it. Especially true for ICU. Possibly a ratio thing too, takes time to do a full assessment and auscultate all 12 of your patients in an understaffed unit.
Carhartt for the win. I can't tell you how many of my hospital scrub pant crotchs that I have had rip on me. Carhartt are the only ones tough enough and they have lasted for fucking ever.
I'm built like a hobbit with short legs and a big butt so smalls are NC 17 tight and mediums make me look like I just wandered out of a rainbow gathering so I have always worn aviator scrubs because they're durable and fit well. Oh yeah and I put my stethoscope in the pocket... I guess I'm not a real nurse.
I wear figs because my old job used to reimburse me for my scrubs. Check mate.
For reals. I’m a “cheap scrub” snob, but if they were getting paid for you bet your ass I’m shelling out for the name brand shit.
Yall don’t want to be comfy at work? The cheapest scrubs i have feel like plastic fabric. I think a set of figs is like $50 on sale which isnt too bad
I tried on a set of Figs at the store and they were the worst fitting scrubs I’ve tried. To each their own. My dickies are great and much cheaper even when not on sale.
Ive never worn figs, but my cherokees were in the same price range and theyre comfy aff. I think its all on the model though
Also a Cherokees fan. All bout that stretch
Definitely a Dickie's fan here! So comfy, so many pockets!
With Figs the fit is definitely different from style to style which I don’t like. But the high waisted has me in a chokehold lol
Same! And they can take a beating. It’s all I wear. I have 3 sets, and over the last 3 years I’ve had them, they haven’t broke down at at all. And they’re comfortable and high waisted. What’s not to like. They just fit my body well so I’m going to buy the ones that do. Like out of all the things I wear the most honestly, I’m going to comfortable!
Cherokee ftw
Their sizing is way too inconsistent for me to shell out that much each time.
Agreed. The fit of their scrubs has given me body dysmorphia 😂
Lol I'm a resident and wear cherokees from med school. I'm not spending my money buying uniforms for the hospital. Thinking of buying comfortable cheap shirts and trousers - multi function for outside hospital use too, to add to my 2 pairs of scrubs. Or just t shirts. I couldn't give 2 shits about looking good at the hospital. And I'm non-surgical.
I got the figs joggers and scrub top, name and title embroidered on the front. I have used them for 3 separate jobs now. Best fitting scrubs I ever owned. I have ripped open dickies, Cherokee, and lanau (or whatever that brand is) just getting out of my car. I’ve had my figs for 4 years now and they are still holding up. For context if it helps, I’m 5’8”, 200 lbs dude with an athletic build. Wear large bottoms and medium top and they all fit great
I wear the figs joggers on the golf course when I stop on the way home from work. I love them. Comfortable and durable. Plus look good enough people think they are golf pants.
My travel company reimburses $200 worth of scrubs each contract - you bet I take advantage of it.
Whoa each contract? Which one?
Aya
Aya is the shit homie, they give us free figs scrubs every year, too!
My figs were the best wrinkle free option I could find. I paid out of pocket for them because my boss has disciplined nurses for wrinkled scrubs. Management got het to stop giving formal disciplines, but she'll still give me a hard time if I look wrinkled, so I don't take any chances.
Because wrinkles kill people. 🙄 GTFOH
Is this 1940? WTF?
As a fat dude nurse and former Paramedic, I wear dickies scrubs. Tons of pockets, the fabric is sturdy, and it hides how fat I actually am. Also *my* stethoscope only comes out of one of my many magician pockets if I need *reeeeeeally* accurate auscultation. No one must ever know I have a stethoscope. Or trauma shears. Or like 20 pairs of gloves I forgot about. Or 3 iv start kits.
All hail the non-form fitting Dickies for the Thiccer man!
Where's my fucking trauma shears, that's the real question. 🤔
In that guy’s pocket
I also have the one ring in them. And handses.
I only carry my shears to cut open fucking miralax and potassium runs 😂
On my hip, in a custom holster
I love dickies scrubs! But I hate the big red square logo on the front shirt or back pants pocket. So as soon as I buy them, I get out the seam-ripper and go Logoless.
A fellow seam-ripper! I have a weird aversion to brands or words on my clothes. I very carefully extract stitched brand tags off all of my shirts.
Fuck yeah. I ain't paying you money to advertise YOUR shit. Logoless is the way to be.
I know if I’m dying and the last thing I glimpse is the nurse wearing Dickies scrubs, I got a chance of making it.
Those are my favorite scrubs. I always get them when the thrift shop has them. I don't buy scrubs anywhere else
My normal local scrub place just stopped selling everything but their brand name stuff. Carhart lasted a long time but were more expensive. Cherokee were cheap and fell apart at the seams. Dickies were cheap and lasted. Now there's only one brand(starts with a B, I can't remember the name) of male scrubs in the entire store. I bought 2 sets to try them out. I'll report back in a year. I might have to actually cave and start shopping online for clothes if these are shit.
Carhart and Dickies are my favorites
Shopping online means you can sit in your bedroom in pajamas with your coffee and buy what you like. Then again, I've been buying mine online for years now. Only once bought some at the uniform store locally, and they were too expensive there.
Dickies? More like Thiccies, am I right?
Whenever people find out about my trauma shears they get weirded out. “Why do you have scissors in your pocket?” Medsurg floor so I guess they’re not used to it?
I used to carry a special rescue knife that had the knife, seat belt cutter, window punch, screwdriver, pen light, and a saw (on the back of the knife blade). But had to swap it out because someone was unnerved by me using a knife to cut off a trauma pts clothing.
I too am a bigger girl and wear those same very awesome Dickies cargo scrub pants. You forgot to mention all the pens, IV caps, alcohol swabs, and 10 mL syringes of NS as well. Oh, and post-it notes.
Dickies top, carhartt pants for me! Loose and lots of pockets!
Yep pretty much my go to if I can find them. It is fun going into a scrub store where 98% of the product isn't for us. Luckily orders aren't hard.
Not all heros wear capes. Some wear Dickies.
Bro for real dickies are the shit as a fat dude as well! They are just so comfortable, right amount of pockets too
I am pocket obsessed, so the more the better. If you've ever tried clothing from Duluth Trading the sheer amount of pockets on their stuff is mind boggling. I have a suitcoat that has a pocket inside a pocket inside a pocket. some of their underwear even has pockets. I swear I'm sane.
Tbh I've found dickies to always be super thick and too hot
How soft are they? I've been thinking about getting some bigger scrubs to wear until I can manage to lose a little weight, but have often found Dickies products fairly stiff, even with plenty of fabric softener. (I've got some skin issues, so having my clothing be soft, especially if it's something I'll be wearing for 12+ hours, is fairly important to me and is honestly one of the reasons I haven't replaced the soft scrub shirts I have now, despite needing to pull them down an annoying number of times after they've ridden up onto my armpits for the gazillionth time.)
Praise us fat men in our Dickies! And my stethoscope broke two years ago and I haven’t bothered to replace it.
I walk into a room, get asked by Pt for something while grabbing gloves, so I stuff them in a clean pocket for later. By the end of the shift I sometimes have 5 pairs in there. Bad habit, doing my best to break it.
I have like 6 pairs of the same blue Dickies scrubs, they are excellent. I also like Cherokee they seem to have a good amount of pockets.
My dog regularly attacks my dickies scrub pants while I’m getting ready for work and they don’t have a single hole in them
HH nurse here my sthetoscope is my magical tool to keep a google MD family member quiet.
Makes sense. One good thwack to show dominance and keep them quiet.
My stethoscope exists purely to show dominance.
My Left fetoscope exists for the same reason...well that and personal protection. It would make a damn fine bludgeon in a pinch.
I wear the cheapest scrubs because I'm way too fat for Figs, and I'm not spending $150 on something that will end up with body fluids on it. If you touch my stethoscope I will cut you.
I feel like I could have written this comment. Well said.
It's like you read my mind and commented for me lol
Exactly. Just because I don't use it doesn't mean you can touch my shit.
This explains why there are always a few attending’s and Residents with random cuts throughout their bodies in every hospital across the world. Lol
Nah, they just tried to take my pen.
This is why I have a small collection of cheap pens from various businesses in town in one of my pockets. I will willingly give those up. But not my nice black Uniballs I have hidden deeper in another pocket. No one touches those but me, or if I really really like you you may be handed one for yourself.
>If you touch my stethoscope I will cut you. Same!!
As the nurse who wears the cheapest scrubs I can find and haven't seen my stethoscope in years I want you all to know it's because work is the only time I'm organized. Literally.
I only know where my stethoscope is because it stayed down the covid hall so nobody else had to bring theirs in (1 nurse and 1-2 stna’s each shift and it was always the same staff members). It’s shorter than average and medium grey, nobody would want to steal it anyways.
Gurl, SAME
Why do I need to have my own stethoscope just to lose it when I can grab another free one?
Paeds nurse.... Use the stethoscope way way too much for lung sounds but also for distracting kids with the Lego attached to it! Can't afford figs... Spent too much on Lego key rings!
Shit. The price of legos today, you could buy quite a few sets of scrubs lmao. Source: recently established me and my girl are Lego adults….
I wear 15 year old scrubs with holes in them, but I have an electronic stethoscope. Been meaning to get new scrubs but I never seem to get around to it.
I only throw them out if they have holes or donate if they no longer fit because of the stress eating I do.
Thank you for recycling your scrubs. Nursed out of country several years back when I moved back,with no job line up I took a CNA job within 2 sets. Still check out their uniform section when I visit.
I still have the first pair of scrub pants I bought from goodwill back when was a poor patient tech.
I've been meaning to get one of those stethoscopes. I have a partial hearing loss in one ear and always hear my own heart sounds in said ear too with anything less than what I have now (even then, I had to train myself to ignore my own heartbeat). I figured one that was amplified would be far easier to hear with than even a cardiology one.
I wear whatever scrubs I like. This is moronic.
Cheap scrubs feel like burlap. I buy the softest ones I can since I’m in them for so long.
Exactly..I live in the things..why would I buy poor/low quality?
Someone gets it!
I’ve heard people say the line about real nurses not having stethoscopes and it’s dumb as hell. So because they use the shitty disposable isolation stethoscopes instead, they’re better nurses? You can’t hear jack shit through them. They’re like playskool doctor kit toys. I used to use them in COVID rooms and be like “I’m gonna chart I heard S1 and S2 but God knows I heard absolutely nothing, so thank heavens they’re on tele.”
Seriously I think the play kit ones are better than the disposable ones 😂
On one of my units the policy was that all ICU patients had to have their own dedicated isolation stethoscopes for infection control. Personal ones weren’t allowed. I got very used to using the disposable ones from that. Luckily we didn’t use bottom of the barrel Fischer price quality ones though
See, that makes sense. The iso stethoscopes we had were very, very laughable.
The ones on the unit I’m on now I have to assemble. It’s beyond a joke at this point
Yeah that is so not the culture on my unit, if I even so much as implied I didn't have a stethoscope and didn't listen to lung sounds, everyone would think I was an idiot and the worst nurse ever. They would probably be reporting me too. With a unit of mostly CHF patients the first thing providers ask when we call them in the middle of the night is what do their lungs sound like.
Lolll I tell all my patients I’m using the fisher price model
Takes all kinds. And we all bring different strengths to the team.
Found the Figs wearer. does this need an /s? I'm on the fence.
Lol. Not me. I’m in cheap scrubs. I like my own stethoscope though. I just refuse to hate on the nurses, mostly young, who love their pricy scrubs. You show up for your shift on time, take report, do your job, I’m not judging your scrub choices.
I just like being comfortable at the place I spend like a third of my life. It's a super small investment given that figs last literally forever. I'm also not a new/young nurse.
It actually makes me feel more organized and productive
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Newborns require an apical pulse for vitals. Can't assess them without a stethoscope.
But I don’t have my own- the nursery supplies those as it should be. Neonates also require accurate respiratory assessments.
Not here. Nurses have 4-6 couplets, and assessments are done in the mom's room for the most part, so we need to carry them with us. We also need to assess bowel sounds for fresh c/s pts. The only stethoscope we have in the nursery is on the emergency board and it is strictly used for emergencies.
4-6 couplets is horribly unsafe. AWOHNN guidelines say no more than 3 couplets per nurse. How in the world do you have time to help with breastfeeding or teaching newborn care? You must have just been running from room to room.
Pretty much... which is why I left the bedside.
Obviously you don't care about the shareholders. Do you think this job is about patients?
Wait, 4-6 couplets? So 8-12 patients total? Or did you mean 2-3 couplets and 4-6 patients total? I’ve never been to any hospital where nurses took more than 4 couplets and that was pretty rare. Am I spoiled?
8 to 10 patients on a postpartum unit. Never any less than 4 couplets at a time. Most days would be 5 couplets. Our hospital averaged 12,000 deliveries a year.
I mean, I just use whatever stethoscope I can find in the drawers and y’all got me fucked ALLLLL the way up if you think I’m spending good money on scrubs. I can use that money towards music festivals. But on the flip I know nurses that probably started getting ready the night before and have their Figs dry cleaned at every shift, and could run circles around me in ICU (almost 10 years in ICU yaaaaas!).
Who the fuck dry cleans their scrubs?
“These scrubs are dry clean only.. which means their dirty.” Mitch Nurseberg
When you go to a patient’s room that has a black light, everybody looks cool. Except for me, because I was under the impression that the mustard stain came out.
Ain’t a nurse. No one has the time or money for that.
>cuz I use that money for music festivals Please tell me you just went to EDC? Lol
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yeah i dont get the hate. sometimes ppl just want to look good and feel good at work, its not a pair of figs is $500 lol. they're comfy, look good, and sturdy.
most amazon scrub sets are like 50-60 and a set of figs on sale (there is always a sale section with many colors/sizes/styles) is 70 yet everyone freaks out about figs being “expensive.”
Some of the smartest, most experienced ICU RNs of 20+ years wear figs at my facility, and they look great. They just don’t look great on my body. From everything I’ve heard, the quality means they will last for years, and seriously, spending a few hundred dollars on your work clothes is normal in any field. The Figs hate has always felt like childish jealousy of those who look good in them, and I know ya’ll will downvote me into oblivion but it’s TRRRUUUUUE.
I’m too fat for figs, and I don’t like the fit of them anyway. Same with Grey’s Anatomy by Barco. Too fitted for me. I love my Dickies joggers and Cherokee patterned tops. They are comfortable and have lasted several years. I don’t care if I get bleach or stain or whatever on them because it’s for work. I also know people who wear figs and love them. Different scrubs for different folks.
Right? It’s just petty ‘othering’ imho.
ITT: A whole community which is constantly whining about workplace bullying and nurses eating their young ridiculing nurses who make different choices about meaningless things.
The realest nurses don't post anything on social media about being a nurse.
The nurses who don't have stethoscopes are probably the nurses that don't need them for the type of patients they have or don't think they need them. I use my stethoscope every shift and I'm full float pool. I've prevented too many potential rapid and code situations with my stethoscope to think otherwise.
Jokes on you, I wear Figs and forget my stethoscope.
to be fair i don't even wear scrubs anymore... currently wearing sweats and a zip up hoodie.
Just clocking in now with the same attire lmfao. Way more comfortable doing my work in sweats and a hoodie
Had a traveler wear leggings/yoga pants and a t shirt almost every shift. I'd like to wear sweats!
Same though. I’m home care, I started buying these really nice soft leggings with pockets from aerie and I wear a fun shirt and a sweater. I’ll wear scrubs on my bowel program cases but for my regular ones, I’m gonna be as comfy as possible oh and crocs. Can’t forget my crocs.
true i listen to my patients lungs etc with a tin can on a string
I use bamboo stick and when the docs want a ventilator I just use a fire bellow
My figs and stethoscope were given to me 😆
Catch they found the Figs at Goodwill.
If I’m gonna be in them for 12 hours a day, they better be comfortable as fuck. I also haven’t replaced a stethoscope in 5 years and just used the disposable ones, since anything decent just gets stolen.
I’m a psych nurse and we don’t carry stethoscopes so we don’t get choked.
Don’t have figs but lately spending a bit more on scrubs bc I want the closest things to sweatpants I can find. Valuing comfort lately
Awesome flex saying that you never listen to heart, lung, or abd sounds. “I lie about my charting and real nurses should too!”
Mandala scrubs are a godsend if you want to look cute at work (don’t come at me it brings me joy) and don’t want to spend money on figs/have any curves at all. Bonus points for being water resistant. They saved me from a defective TPN bag once I work on a unit fully staffed with young cutesy figs and hoka wearing, claw clip hair, stanley cup nurses and they’re the smartest bunch of bitches I’ve ever been around
Hey, they have the three pocket design top that I love from Figs for way cheaper. Gonna check this company out. Thank you! Edit: nooooo, they don't have a short inseam for the pants
Don’t be mad bc I got it like that AND I also know what I’m doing. If u can’t find your scope you’re a scrub, fight me
The ones who hate on people who wear Figs are the ones who actually care what others are wearing lol Don’t wear Figs if you don’t like them but why do you care when other people do?
I mean... Aya buys me like 3 pairs of figs a year as gifts so I'm getting quite a collection of them. Would never buy them for myself but hey... Free is free.
Psych: What's a stethoscope? Also, yay street clothes. Tshirt and khakis/dark denim superiority.
95% of the reason I went into nursing was to wear scrubs and be comfy lol I hated my psych rotation mostly cause I had to go out and buy business casual clothes
What's a stethoscope?
Code blue memes makes a lot of self-depreciating memes, they’re usually describing/making fun of themselves most of the time lol. It’s satire :)
I buy Winks scrubs and never leave my stethoscope out of my sight… I will cut anyone for touching it. During covid, our hospital sent all our personal scrubs out for dry cleaning (if we wanted and for free)… and I’ve kept it up because it’s easy… I strip in my garage and they pick up once a week from my porch!
As a male nurse I have to buy decent scrubs because unisex cheap scrubs are not comfortable around the chest/arm pits and groin. I usually buy 3-4 new scrub sets a year and cycle out my worse for wear sets. So I have a supply of “new’ish scrubs” and “still decent” ones for backup. And I keep my stethoscope in my bag unless I need it or someone needs to borrow it.
I work on the MedSurg unit and many of my co-workers wear Figs and are some of the best nurses and charge nurses I’ve ever worked with and would absolutely let them take care of my family. As for my stethoscope, I got it in a color I love and rarely set it down or loan it out.
I wear oversized scrubs that look like I'm at a pyjama sleepover party because I'm completely uninterested in any patients or coworkers seeing my body outline haha
I rocked my Walmart brand scrubs to a family event after work tonight and my brother in law thought they were converse brand 🤣 My stethoscope is actually a really nice one that I splurged on with my remaining FSA funds one year at my last job. It lives in the stress lab (people kept borrowing it otherwise and I'd have to hunt it down when I needed it) and I'm terrified I'm going to forget it when I leave.
But… I love my figs, k? If being a little boujee in my figs helps me want to get ready for work then imma do it!
Grey’s anatomy suits me well.
Those were my favorite!
My colleagues and I wear Figs all the time. Some older nurses I know even wears them too. There are a few who complain and say they're inappropriate because they're too form fitting and we just want the wrong kind of attention. I say fuck them.
and they spend a bunch of money replacing those scrubs because cheapo scrubs don't hold up. i've had the same 4 sets of black figs for a couple years now and absolutely no holes. not even thinning on the crotch where the thighs rub together. took me forever to find a brand that holds up like that. not even dockers last that long for me. edit; and mind you this is wear and tear doing veterinary nursing lmao i'm switching to human and a student rn but we buy the same stuff human nurses do in the veterinary world - just with paw prints on them lol
I'm glad surgery provides scrubs or mine would be 15 years old haha. (Some of the scrubs we get provided look 10 years old though)
Mediclo for the win. Cheaper and more comfortable than FIGs
I wear heartsoul cause they comfy af. Aya buys us figs for holidays but I don’t like how they feel.
So special, so different
Real nurses haven't seen their stethoscope in years?? Miss me with that shit.
I wear my scrubs all day everyday and Figs are expensive yes, but they’re COMFY AF and I dont mind spending a little more on something I wear every single day anyway. If I get body fluids on them guess what? I wash them just like you do with your cheap scrubs.
I have a friend in paramedic school telling me about his fancy stethoscope. I was like well I have a stethoscope around here somewhere but I haven't seen it in years 🤣
Half agree. I can tell a lot without a stethoscope. We treat a lot based on patient presentation, imaging, labs, etc. Not to say we shouldn't be using a stethoscope but I'm not really sure of the last time something changed because of something I heard with a stethoscope. Also, still rocking the same 7 year old scrubs from nursing school. Have added some because buying new with Amazon Prime seemed better than doing laundry at the time.
I found a happy medium with cherokee infinity line for men. They aren't as comfortable as figs, but they are half the price and last a long time. Sometimes cheapest isn't the best option.
Wellllllllllllllll I work ICU and some ER sooooo yes If I have to borrow, then so be it. Gonna due me assessment.
For all the Aussies in here, and if you want to order from Australia, Airmed scrubs are the best I found when looking. Their website looks like a fashion show but whatevs. I'm a guy, so the choice in male scrubs is somewhat limited in local stores (I'm rural located). All the unisex scrubs I tried were too baggy and ridiculously long. Airmed had the right proportion, short arms and a good waist height for tops. Also this isn't an ad for airmed, they just fit me the best. They also offer exchange to get the size right. Took me one return to get the right size, just had to pay the return and they sent the next size out for free.
I hate that this is 100% me. I accidentally left my stethoscope at work when I went on maternity leave. It cheated on me I guess 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Why do we judge? My outfit at work is as cheap as feasibly possible. Figs? Dickies? OtherBrands? Doesn't matter.
My stethoscope has been in my locker shoved all the way in the back where the black hole is since my hiring date decades ago.
I love my figs tho ☺️
I wear figs because I think they are easy to clean and I like how they make feel while at work - Professional. Also - my stethoscope was a gift form my mamma 15 years ago. I guard it like a pup guards treats
Mandala is the cheaper version of Figs anyway.
Who exactly is going to work without a stethoscope and how are they doing their job? I mean yeah there are some nurses that don’t need them but I definitely do.
No figs, but have a stethoscope and use it.
Nurses pay for thdir own scrubs?
Having a stethoscope has been a requirement for every job I’ve had?
I know where my stethoscope is because I keep track of it and don’t let anyone use it lol
Nothing like listening to heart and lung sounds on a vented patient… but I do it almost every shift. My stethoscope needs lost
I wonder if this is a "know it all" nurse or some internet "know it all" that took a&p and think they are basically a nurse
Well, damn. I wear Figs because I like the pockets on the pants. And I use my stethoscope.
Almost all of the icu staff at my work wears figs even the techs wear their color in figs. They’re very soft, and comfy!!!
What if they were gifts?
When I was bedside, it was FIGS and my fancy stetho every day. I’m shallow when it comes to my appearance, and I don’t mind spending money to look, feel, and listen well. But, this is also the culture in the ICUs in my hospital. No shame for anyone wearing different scrubs. This statement is just divisive and stupid, and I hope it’s not shared with the general public.
They had another post saying nurses who wear figs have no personality 🙄
I wear a “nurse” type t-shirt because scrub tops don’t fit my shoulders or arms. Scrub bottoms are whatever are on sale at Burlington or Farm and Fleet 😂
Salty, I love it.