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Originally Posted by tomwed
I never thought about that before. I have seen people dressed in scrubs in public. But when you visit someone in the hospital, with everyone walking around in scrubs, isn't that also the same exposure? I don't mean to sound snarky, not at all. I just don't know what nurses know.
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Hospitals were created for the ill not the well, so when a visitor enters a hospital they are entering at their own risk of exposure to all the hospital acquired infections floating around.
A nurse who happens to have a stain on their scrubs that he/she may not even be aware of, that stain's source could be body fluid from a patient they cared for with MRSA, C-Diff, VRE, etc., which any of these can be deadly to an immunocompromised person who may accidently brush up against that stain while in line at the grocery store.