scrubs

Scrubs in medical world is better known as scrub suits which is worn by from doctors to medical staff to nurses who had to be in a surgery. Today we continue to distinguish medical personnel dress in scrubs in hospitals, offices and clinics. We cannot imagine a surgeon work in a decontaminated room without scrubs. Actually scrubs have been part of the medical world for less than one hundred years. Why? It’s because not until 1900s surgeons before did not wear this kind of clothing, they just actually wore street clothing and perform surgery in an operating theater. They don’t even wear gloves and just had exposed palms to perform some procedures using some surgical instruments that have not even been sterilized. Before the scrub suits as a uniform came into the medical world, surgeons before even the staffs’ nurses wear white clothes or what they call lab coat to indicate cleanliness.

During the 1940s a more modernized scrub was born. At present, all medical uniforms we see that consists of a long pants and a short v-necked shirt is directly recognized as scrub suits or scrub uniform. In the same year, further technique was developed in order to protect not only the patients but also the doctors and its staffs. Everything used in the operating room from the scrub uniforms to medical instruments and supplies were sterilized. In 1960s doctors decided to change their lab coats color, and that’s when scrub uniforms was really created, the green scrubs and got rid of white scrubs uniform which is too bright  that gives eye strains.

Today, most or almost all medical personnel in a hospital are already allowed to wear different colors of scrub uniforms especially the nursing scrubs in the condition that it must have the badge or logo of the hospital, clinic or of the company although some organization strictly requires certain type of color of a nursing scrub depending on the department they belong to.  Not only that, today you can even see some nurses wearing a nursing scrub with  prints like cartoon characters or abstract designs depending on what pleases them and also to the patients. Though some medical staffs still prefers to wear the traditional type of nursing uniform because for them if they wear the scrubs they were / are identified as cleaning aide or staff that makes it hard for the patients whether if they are a nurse or not.  But for the modern age today, mostly prefer to wear the modern scrub type if uniform as it is a neutral type of uniform and that comes in altered measurement in order to be able to fit all types of shape.