Question

why is it necessary for pharmacists to wear clean lab coat cap hand gloves
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Answer 1

Answer:

Most pharmacists don’t dress this way. In retail settings, pharmacists often wear business casual with/without a white coat. In hospital settings, pharmacists often wear scrubs much like other hospital healthcare providers (though some will still wear business casual in this setting as well). It all depends on the dress code of the pharmacy/facility that they work in.

Pharmacists who work in sterile clean rooms will wear the sterile garb (gown, caps, gloves, booties, etc) you describe. This is because they work in areas where sterile IVs and other medications are prepared, and this garb is what we call “secondary engineering controls”—that is, it works in conjunction with the HEPA filters in the mixing hood (primary engineering controls) to minimize the risk of contamination.