First things first: scrubs are like the most comfortable thing in the world! I've three stolen sets at home that I wear as pyjamas.

In some hospitals, its the standard uniform (not in the one I'm working in which is the case in most, if not all, of the hospitals in Australia). Nevertheless, in the operating theatre and its surrounds, everyone has to wear scrubs.

I usually take off my hijab and put on a scrub bonnet. I admit, my neck's exposed when I do that. Also I put on a scrub "jacket", which is long sleeved, over my short-sleeved scrub top. When I scrub in for a surgery, this jacket comes off and is substituted with a sterile surgical gown... and gloves and a mask. All that gear leaves only my eyes, forehead and a bit of my neck exposed.

When I'm wearing scrubs while not in theatre (eg. Emergency Department, on the wards during a long shift/ on call, sometimes on my anaesthetic rotation last year) I leave my hijab on and tuck it into my scrubs top. I admit, it does get a bit hot. Especially since I'd also be wearing a long-sleeved tee underneath my scrubs. If I don't have a t-shirt on, yup, its that long-sleeved jacket thing again.

Different docs and nurses and other theatre staff who wear hijabs have different ways of adapting to scrubs, I guess. But that's how I do it. Thanks for asking the question :)

First things first: scrubs are like the most comfortable thing in the world! I've three stolen sets at home that I wear as pyjamas.

In some hospitals, its the standard uniform (not in the one I'm working in which is the case in most, if not all, of the hospitals in Australia). Nevertheless, in the operating theatre and its surrounds, everyone has to wear scrubs.

I usually take off my hijab and put on a scrub bonnet. I admit, my neck's exposed when I do that. Also I put on a scrub "jacket", which is long sleeved, over my short-sleeved scrub top. When I scrub in for a surgery, this jacket comes off and is substituted with a sterile surgical gown... and gloves and a mask. All that gear leaves only my eyes, forehead and a bit of my neck exposed.

When I'm wearing scrubs while not in theatre (eg. Emergency Department, on the wards during a long shift/ on call, sometimes on my anaesthetic rotation last year) I leave my hijab on and tuck it into my scrubs top. I admit, it does get a bit hot. Especially since I'd also be wearing a long-sleeved tee underneath my scrubs. If I don't have a t-shirt on, yup, its that long-sleeved jacket thing again.

Different docs and nurses and other theatre staff who wear hijabs have different ways of adapting to scrubs, I guess. But that's how I do it. Thanks for asking the question :)