Scrubs



Scrubs are the short sleeved shirts and trousers or gowns worn by nurses, surgeons, and any other operating room personnel when "scrubbing in" for surgery, worn under sterile surgical gowns. The wearing of scrubs has been extended outside of surgery in many hospitals. Scrubs are now worn by any hospital personnel in any clean environment, for cleanliness and hygiene issues and are worn under lab coats.

Grey's Anatomy
All staff at Seattle Grace have a standardised set of scrubs that is usually worn by the staff, if some form of formal wear is not worn. Different colors in scrubs indicate which department and/or rank they are:
 * Surgical Attendings wear dark blue scrubs
 * Surgical Residents wear light blue scrubs
 * ER Residents wear brown scrubs
 * Psychiatry staff wear white scrubs
 * Nursing staff generally wear green scrubs

Some of the SGH staff have their own personalised scrub caps:
 * Preston Burke has a lucky orange one, and multiple others.
 * Erica Hahn has a white cap with blue and red dots, and also previously used one with roses.
 * Addison Montgomery has one with a blue and green blend and also owns a flowery one which is used on occasion.
 * Derek Shepherd has a cap with ferry boats.
 * Owen Hunt has a green cap with small dark yellow triangles all over it.
 * Richard Webber has a dark blue with shapes,
 * Arizona Robbins has a pink and white scrub cap with butterflies.

The standard scrub caps are light blue fabric scrub caps as worn by residents, and attendings have dark blue scrub caps. Paper/plastic scrub caps are available as well, including hair nets available to non-medical personnel in the OR (more frequently the case in cesarean sections where the partner is present) Personalised scrub caps can be enlarged and shaped to be more of a hair net to accommodate extra hair, as in the case of Margaret Campbell.

Private Practice
All staff at St. Ambrose also have scrubs, and all staff on the show have been shown to wear purple scrubs, and the nursing staff may appear to wear blue scrubs.

The staff at Oceanside Wellness also have their own pink/purple scrubs, with the exception of Dell, who has blue scrubs as part of his conditions of working at the center, and all staff own their own personalised scrub caps.