Uniforms

I would be happy if someone who works in Health Care (NHS), would comment my future posts, as I will have many questions I would need answers for.

Today I wanna talk about the dresses, work uniforms. Everywhere in the world, nurses, doctors have uniforms (at leash should have)

This is how a regular day goes for a nurse in Hungary. Wakes up, getting ready, dressing up to normal clothes. Travels to the hospital by public transport, or car, etc. Arriving to the hospital. Goes to the dressing rooms. Change his/her dress to the hospital uniform. Work starts.

And now let's see how it goes in the UK. Wakes up, getting ready, dressing up to hospital uniform. Travels to Hospital by public transport, or car, etc. Arriving to the hospital. Starts working.

What is wrong in the second example? What do you think?

Hospitals HAS to be totally CLEAN places. Ideally they should be steril. I said ideally, as it is not possible. To maintain certain cleanness, and healthy enviroment, you must NOT go to work in your uniform. Why not?

Imagine the fact, you dress up in your uniform at home. Get in the car, or get in the public transport. You touch many places, expose your clothes to a lot of different bacteria, bugs, which can easily get stuck on your clothes. Then you go in the hospital, and stand next to a sick/wounded/operated people, and all the bugs you are carrying with you, can have direct access to wounds, and therefore to the bloodflow of a sick person. While if you change your uniform only at the hospital, it would be cleaner, and your clothes would not have been exposed to any bacteria/virus, etc.

And as this is a two way street, you can not only carry bugs into the hospital from public transport, but also you can spread any bug might have jumped on your uniform during your working hours, to the general public.

Hospitals in Hungary recognised this already, therefore they provide laundry service for all the uniforms, so if you don't want, you don't even have to take it home to wash/dry/iron.

In the UK, hippocracy is all around. Nurses are attaching their "nurse wristwatch" on their uniform, for Safety reasons (and health reasons), but on the other hand, they travel through the city in their uniforms. And noone, I mean NOONE thinks/talks about it. This is normal.

Just as MRSA.

If you look at the regular GPs. How many of them are wearing uniforms? This would be NONE!

I have met several GPs already, none of them was wearing uniforms. Just normals clothes. Sorry to say, but when some works in health care, please wear a bloody uniform. If the GP does a gynecological examination, the MINIMUM is wearing a uniform. This is just common sense. Nothing else. If someone can not understand this, well, I have to think that person has serious shortcomings in Health and Safety.

Hungary is a third world country in improvement if we compare it to the UK. But still, several things are way much better, and more efficient than in the UK everybody proud of.

Just to give some info, visit this Yahoo Question/Answer topic: Uniforms