Care, Cleaning and Maintenance of your Peaches Scrubs

Although the bright and vibrant colors and designs of today's nursing uniforms and other medical apparel add a sense of fun and fashion to atmosphere of medical organizations, which can be uplifting for patients and their relatives and friends, the most important message they give out is one of cleanliness and professionalism.

Clearly the two are strongly associated. Nursing uniforms which are stained, even something as innocent as a coffee stain, will give a very poor impression to those you are caring for and to other professionals working alongside you. Nor do you want your uniform to have perspiration marks or be rumpled or torn. Finally, under OSHA rules, it is important that you avoid cross-infection through allowing contaminated clothing to come into contact with other people, clothing or instruments.

This makes the cleaning, care and maintenance of your Peaches scrubs an ongoing discipline, not just something to do at the end of the day. It is important to have at least one spare pair of scrubs available, more if you anticipate heavy demands being made on your nursing or medical uniforms. 

Peaches scrubs are made from tough poplin. This is a breathable fabric which helps keep you perspiration free. This is important because using deodorants or other antiperspirants may not be appropriate where there is a chance that a patient could have an allergic reaction to those products. The fabric has built in soil release technology which helps reduce staining. The garments are machine-washable and retain their colors well. As part of the cleaning process to prevent micro-bacterial infection as well as to prevent wrinkling, your nursing uniforms should be ironed.

Where there is a chance of cross-contamination whether from a blood borne infection or other source (such as feces), when you change your medical apparel you should bag and label your contaminated scrubs and sterilize your hands. Contaminated scrubs should be dealt with by trained staff wearing appropriate protective clothing and equipment.  Appropriate records should be kept.  It is common to outsource cleaning arrangements to specialist firms to ensure compliance to OSHA. Finally, it is important to ensure that you have not accidentally left sharps or scissors in your scrubs when you change. These can tear the fabric and could also lead to a sharps accident and a high risk of blood borne infection. Any such incidents should be reported and recorded.