Little pops of color are THE story this season with Urbane leading the pack in trend right uniforms. Their new #9530 Contrast Top and coordinating  #9702N scrub pants hit the mark with just the right amount of color. The sharp v-neck and shaped fit make this scrubs top not only stylish but flattering! Available in 5 chic shades this outfit is a hit in any combination you choose. Shop our entire Urbane collection at www.ScrubsAndBeyond.com.

“Brilliantly Cool and Utilitarian Chic” – that’s WonderWink! This medical scrubs line offers stylish basics with functional features you will love! The WonderWink signature pocket features a triple layer design with mesh insert keeping your gear safe, organized and easily accessible. The logo bungee loop is perfect for holding your badge or anything you needed clipped handy. 12 color choices fit a multitude of dress codes. The variety of styles and value pricing make this line something special. Give it a try! Shop our  entire WonderWink selection at www.ScrubsAndBeyond.com! 

Happy Friday &  No Pants Day everyone!

This crazy holiday is celebrated by participating individuals, willing to go about their day without pants.  These brave souls are challenged to act as if there is nothing strange about the fact that they are going pantless in public for the day. Going against the norm and seeing the reaction from people unaware of the event, generally makes the event fun for everyone. This humorous tradition (where you wear no pants) was thought to have been  started in the late 1980′s or early 90′s, and has continued every year since on the first Friday in May. Although the exact timing of the inaugural day is up in the air, most agree that the holiday has survived and thrived as a result of the efforts of The Knighthood of BUH chapter at the University of Texas in Austin. This organization is dedicated to the promotion of humor and individuality and believe there is “inherent joy in not wearing pants”. They feel that overall, the holiday is about not taking yourself too seriously. Evidently many people agree, as No Pants Day has popped up in cities across the globe.

For those of you who are unable to participate in this pantless ritual, might we suggest one of these great scrub pants sure to keep you smiling!

Crisp, clean white is out of sight for summer and new, fashion forward styles from your favorite brands have just arrived!

Stay cute and in dress code in the updated Cassidy scrub dress from Koi. This scrub dress features a button front with flattering princess seaming and a drop waist with button tab detail. Cuffed sleeves and pleated pockets add a professional touch. Sizes XS-3X. 40″ length.  Style #903.

The Daphne top adds feminine softness to your uniform with button trim and ruched sleeves.  Lightweight 100% cotton embroidered fabric has a delicate look with the durability you need in a medical uniform. Sizes XS-3X. Style #152.

Koi’s Willow top offers a comfortable, flattering fit you will love! Made with a beautifully embroidered fabric, it’s fully lined and features two gathered patch pockets with shirring and elastic waist. 100% cotton. Sizes XS-3X. Style #161.

Introducing scrub uniforms from a brand known for strength and toughness – Carhartt! “Hard to rip, but easy to wear” – that’s the super durable 55% cotton/45% polyester rib stop fabric – giving you a uniform that looks great and is built to last. Available in both men’s and women’s styles – Carhartt medical uniforms feature stylish details that offer form and function for a professional look.

The #17008 women’s top has shaped styling with pleated back and top stitching throughout. Roomy front pockets with re-enforced seaming keep all your gear secure. The #57008 coordinating scrub pants feature a boot-cut leg with cargo pockets, side vents, and top stitch detail.  The classic, drawstring front/elastic back waist sits just below the natural waistline. Both styles are available in 4 colors, sizes XS-3X.

The men’s version, style #15108 features classic v-neck styling with a longer back hem and sturdy chest pocket. The companion cargo pant, #54108 has a comfortable drawstring front/elastic back waist with zip fly. Also available in 4 colors, sizes S-3X.

Complete your look with the perfect layering peice – Carhartt’s performance tee. These tee’s, v-neck style #31109 for women and round neck style #34109 for men, are in 100% polyester performance fabric with moisture management – keeping you fresh, comfortable and dry in even the most stressful situations. Available in white or heather grey these tees look great under your favorite scrubs or on their own.

Shop our entire Carhartt selection at ScrubsAndBeyond.com!

Every office, floor, and unit has one – the thief, absconder, opportunist. Whether it’s your lunch, your pen, or heaven forbid your stethoscope – something of yours always turns up missing! Don’t let this happen to you again! Protect your stethoscope from wandering off with personalization! Scrubs & Beyond offers many different types of personalization, making your scope unique. Depending on the type of scope, you can have the bell or tubing personalized with logos, names, icons, or nasty notes to would-be thieves. Check out our wide selection of engravable stethoscopes and safeguard your belongings today!

What do you love about summer? Show us on Pinterest and you could win a $100 Gift Card!

Here’s how it works:

Visit http://pinterest.com to pin a board showing your favorite things for summer, and enter to win a $100 Scrubs & Beyond gift card!  

Contest runs through 4/17, 12pm CST

 Phase 1

-Follow @ScrubsAndBeyond on Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/scrubsandbeyond/

-Create a Summer themed board titled “Favorite Things for Summer.”

-Pin at least 3 Scrubs & Beyond looks to the board, along with anything that you love about summer.

-Under each pin from Scrubs & Beyond, include the hashtags #ScrubsAndBeyondSummer

-When your board is complete, post a comment under the cover pin with a link to your board.

Phase 2

-The Scrubs & Beyond team will choose four semi-finalists from among the participants, judged on creativity and originality (50%) and the use of Scrubs & Beyond product images (50%).

-Once they are pinned, users will have until April 17^th  at 12pm CST to “vote” for the winner by like and repinning their favorite pins from either board. Each like counts as one vote, and each repin counts as two votes.

-The board with the most votes on April 17^th at 12pm CST time wins a $100 gift card from Scrubs & Beyond!

Note: For finalist selection, we reserve the right to remove pins taken directly from medical scrub  websites apart from Scrubs & Beyond.

Have fun – we can’t wait to see your boards!

More information about your pins

-You can pin products directly from our website, and/or repin any of our current pins on our boards to create yours

-Along with our product images, you can include as many other inspirational images as you like!  Have a look at our Favorite Things for Summer board for inspiration: http://pinterest.com/scrubsandbeyond/favorite-things-for-summer/

Only one entry per person. Open to US residents only, 18 or older.

Pinterest is invite-only, so if you haven’t already joined, you can request an invite from Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/about/help/

For full contest rules and details – click here – http://goo.gl/oom9A

Good Luck and we can’t wait to see your boards!

History of National Doctors’ Day

National Doctors’ Day is held every year on March 30th in the United States. It is a day to celebrate the contribution of physicians who serve our country by caring for its’ citizens.

The first Doctor’s Day observance was March 30, 1933 in Winder, Georgia.  Eudora Brown Almond, wife of Dr. Charles B. Almond, decided to set aside a day to honor physicians. This first observance included the mailing greeting cards and placing flowers on graves of deceased doctors. The red carnation is commonly used as the symbolic flower for National Doctor’s Day.

On March 30, 1958, a Resolution Commemorating Doctors’ Day was adopted by the United States House of Representatives. In 1990, legislation was introduced in the House and Senate to establish a national Doctor’s Day. Following overwhelming approval by the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, on October 30, 1990, President George Bush signed S.J. RES. #366 (which became Public Law 101-473) designating March 30th as “National Doctor’s Day.”

Thank you to all of our Doctor’s for all you do!!

What we love this week:

Bright COLORS are the big craze this spring and Sanita is right on trend!  - The #98167 Xaria from Sanita has a splash of color on the sole that will keep you in fashion and add pizzazz to your look. The high quality, high shine black patent leather uppers come with red, blue, yellow, or pink colored slip resistant soles. $119.99.

Be the first to get these “must-have” brightly colored sole nursing clogs!

Sanita Xaria clogs are in-stock NOW and ready to ship!!

 Dont forget – Free shipping on any order with the purchase of any regular price Sanita Shoe! It doesn”t get any better than this!

It’s leap year and today is leap day! Have you ever wondered what leap year is all about and how it was decided to make February 29th the leap day? All your questions can be answered in this great article from Borgna Brunner on Infoplease.com.

2012 is a leap year, which means that it has 366 days instead of the usual 365 days that an ordinary year has. An extra day is added in a leap year—February 29 —which is called an intercalary day or a leap day.

Why is a Leap Year Necessary?

Leap years are added to the calendar to keep it working properly. The 365 days of the annual calendar are meant to match up with the solar year. A solar year is the time it takes the Earth to complete its orbit around the Sun — about one year. But the actual time it takes for the Earth to travel around the Sun is in fact a little longer than that—about 365 ¼ days (365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds, to be precise). So the calendar and the solar year don’t completely match—the calendar year is a touch shorter than the solar year.

It may not seem like much of a difference, but after a few years those extra quarter days in the solar year begin to add up. After four years, for example, the four extra quarter days would make the calendar fall behind the solar year by about a day. Over the course of a century, the difference between the solar year and the calendar year would become 25 days! Instead of summer beginning in June, for example, it wouldn’t start until nearly a month later, in July. As every kid looking forward to summer vacation knows—calendar or no calendar—that’s way too late! So every four years a leap day is added to the calendar to allow it to catch up to the solar year.

A Quick History Lesson

The Egyptians were the first to come up with the idea of adding a leap day once every four years to keep the calendar in sync with the solar year. Later, the Romans adopted this solution for their calendar, and they became the first to designate February 29 as the leap day.

But Wait! It’s Not Quite that Simple!

The math seems to work out beautifully when you add an extra day to the calendar every four years to compensate for the extra quarter of a day in the solar year. As we said earlier, however, the solar year is just about 365 ¼ days long, but not exactly! The exact length of a solar year is actually 11 minutes and 14 seconds less than 365 ¼ days. That means that even if you add a leap day every four years, the calendar would still overshoot the solar year by a little bit—11 minutes and 14 seconds per year. These minutes and seconds really start to add up: after 128 years, the calendar would gain an entire extra day. So, the leap year rule, “add a leap year every four years” was a good rule, but not good enough!

Calendar Correction, Part II

To rectify the situation, the creators of our calendar (the Gregorian calendar, introduced in 1582) decided to omit leap years three times every four hundred years. This would shorten the calendar every so often and rid it of the annual excess of 11 minutes and 14 seconds. So in addition to the rule that a leap year occurs every four years, a new rule was added: a century year is not a leap year unless it is evenly divisible by 400. This rule manages to eliminate three leap years every few hundred years.

It’s Smooth Sailing for the Next 3,300 Years

This ingenious correction worked beautifully in bringing the calendar and the solar year in harmony, pretty much eliminating those pesky extra 11 minutes and 14 seconds. Now the calendar year and the solar year are just about a half a minute off. At that rate, it takes 3,300 years for the calendar year and solar year to diverge by a day.

Happy Leap Day!