Mom used to iron everything. Coveralls, bed sheets, underclothing, you name it – she pressed it. This meant, as a teenager, I ironed it all too. Saturday morning meant standing at the creaky old ironing board, with the radio playing, pressing my dad’s boxers and my brother’s cordoroys.

Now I wear Nursing Scrubs and say to heck with all that ironing!

I just love cotton.  And I love cotton nurse’s scrubs.  Luckily, today’s cotton fabrics need a great deal less care than same garments in my mother’s household. Today, cotton does not mean just cotton. It means permanent press cotton, or wrinkle resistant cotton or wrinkle free polyester cotton blends. It also means hospital scrubs with no wrinkles.  It also means freedom from hours sweating over the ironing board! Hallelujah!

Modern cotton material, and for me, that means cotton scrubs fabrics, are created with a special surface finish to facilitate the scrubs garments resist wrinkles. This is a giant boost for veterinarians who wear uniforms to work on a daily basis. Most nursing scrubs uniforms are now wash and wear. Simply take those nurse’s scrub uniforms right from your clothes dryer and fold them nicely, or hang them on a clothes hanger, and you’re good as new! Easy, soft and great looking nurse’s scrub uniforms are the standard now.

We know (that some~some} nurses still press all their medical uniforms. We know some nurses never press their medical scrub uniforms! It’s only a matter of taste, and sometimes, just a matter of being at the dryer in time to be sure your scrub garments remain wrinkle-free, as nature (and the new resin coated cotton scrubs fabrics) intended.

Frequently, I yearn for the good old days when my mother had hot, fresh cinnamon cookies on the table when I got home at the end of the day. But I certainly don’t miss those hours at the ironing board. Yes, I do own an ironing board and a state of the art iron, but they don’t get utilized often these days, thanks to my wrinkle free cotton nursing uniforms. Thanks to advances in the construction of today’s cotton garments, Mom’s iron doesn’t get used much anymore either. But she puts that time previously wasted in ironing wrinkled cotton fabrics to good use. She still bakes great cookies.