A College of New Caledonia (CNC) nursing instructor is asking health professionals in the Prince George area to clean out their closets and donate their gently-used uniforms and scrubs to the college.
The scrubs will then be sold for between $5 and $20, depending on the uniform, with proceeds supporting a CNC bursary for a health sciences student.
"As an instructor I see students from all demographics. Several struggle with finances," said Nancy Esopenko.
"Enabling them to purchase lightly-used scrubs for economic prices, while concurrently contributing to a bursary and upgrades in the nursing lab, seems like a win-win situation."
Collection bins have been distributed to the main clusters of health professionals in Prince George. Central sites are at UHNBC, the Spirit of the North Health Care Foundation, Northern Interior Health Unit, Lakewood Dental, CNC library, Victoria medical lab and Canadian Blood Services.
Any health professional - from doctors, nurses, and medical lab technologists to medical radiography technologists, health care assistants, technologists, dental hygienists and assistants - can donate their scrubs.
They must be washed, in good shape and recyclable for others to use. In other words, lightly scrubbed scrubs.
The Spirit of the North Health Care Foundation has donated their vendor's space at UHNBC for Esopenko and her team to use for a one-day collection blitz on Wednesday, Jan. 26 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Once collected, the scrubs will be sorted and prepared for sale on Wednesday, Feb. 9 in conjunction with CNC's Health and Wellness Fair in the CNC Atrium from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend the sale. Funds from the sale go towards a bursary for a health sciences student and new equipment for the nursing lab.
