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Betsy wrote:
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Paul Griffiths wrote:


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Spent much time in Special Forces have you?



(grin) Nah... Used to be a jail officer. When you're a 5-foot 4-inch
female, dealing mainly with 6-foot-plus drunken males, with an occasional
violent offender coming along for variety, the ability to do a quick-fade
becomes a survival mechanism - they can't hit you if they can't see you,
but you can sure drop them if you can catch them by surprise.
Unfortunately, wearing a uniform so much of the time plays hell with a
person's off-duty fashion sense, especially when they didn't have much to
start with. :-) Which I didn't.

Now I get to wear hospital scrubs in bright colors and patterns, starting
next week... And am probably going to have to take someone along shopping
to avoid getting plain blah green. :-) Anybody wanna going scrub
shopping?

~ Dor



I will gladly lend you my expertise in this area. Being a nurse, having
had to wear "whites" during school, I went hog wild once I was allowed to
wear 'anything that makes your patients smile.' My advice...stick with
pastels; lavender, teal, light blue. I wear plain colored slacks and
multi patterened tops. What type of office will you be working in?
Helps to sort what type of atmosphere to the kind of tops you wear.
Being in Pediatric homecare now, Scooby doo and pooh bear fit quite well.
Lucky me!!

Betsy
I'll be in a satellite surgical center (say that six times fast!),
employed as Med Records Coordinator. I'll get to bounce around,
multi-task, cross-train and help out elsewhere as needed, I'm sure, but my
primary contact should be with staff more than patients. Make sure notes
are transcribed correctly; transcribe if someone hasn't already done it.
Check the lab sheets, check the pre-op notes, check that insurance
verification is done, check the schedule, get it all together in proper
order and ready to go first thing on surgery day... That sort of stuff.
I'm told it will be my happy privelege to politely request the doctors
please turn their notes in on time, so that transcription can be done
sometime before the patient kicks off from old age... :-) I'm a
non-threatening, fairly inoffensive-looking type, physically, more like
someone's favorite aunt that bakes cookies than anything else... I should
be good at this, right? :-) I was thinking darker bottoms with light or
patterned tops. The center is supposed to supply a jacket with my name on
it. (fancy, huh? ) I'm gonna feel like such a fraud! But it should be
fun. Clogs, or sneakers?

~ Dor


Surgery...the one place I never worked. LOL! I think you have the scrubs
figured out OK. As for the shoes...whatever you feel comfortable in, you
should wear. No sense wearing shoes that hurt your feet. Some places
prefer you wear white shoes...others don't have a preference. Good Luck to
you!

Betsy