The look of nursing scrubs has suddenly become quite fashionable, since they became as well designed as street clothes. Unlike the ridiculous outfits that medical staff wore when I was a child, today the emphasis is on practicality, good design and comfort. I had a quick look at the background of the well-designed scrubs that we now see. The name, scrubs, originates from the fact that they were first worn in a “scrubbed” environment, where the staff washed their hands and donned sterile gloves before an operation. Now, thanks in part to medical dramas on TV, scrubs clothing has been adopted by other medical and nursing staff.

Over here the patients also get to wear a version of scrubs if they go to hospital without clothes of their own. How do I know? A friend was admitted as an emergency and he liked the image of his scrubs so much that he wore them home - in fact he wore his scrubs at home for ages. Now I have found a site to buy nursing scrubs at great prices I know what to buy him for his next birthday present.