About Us

Last updated: November 14, 2026

Scrub Ink is an online store for unit-and-shift identity wear and small gifts. It is for bedside nurses and the people they work alongside: techs, CNAs, unit secretaries and respiratory therapists. This page explains what the store is, how it is organised and where it draws its lines.

What Scrub Ink is

Most workwear gifts for nurses say something about nursing in general. Ours say something narrower and more useful: which floor, which unit, which shift, whose name. A tee that reads TELE over NIGHTS tells the person at the elevator more than any slogan would, and it tells your own people that you are one of them.

That is the whole idea. The store is small on purpose. There are 20 products, and every one of them is either something you wear to and from a shift or layer over what you work in, or something that lives in the break room, on a lanyard hook or on a set of keys.

• Wear: tees, long sleeve tees, crewneck sweatshirts, hoodies, a quarter-zip pullover, a cap and a beanie.
• Break room and gifts: a tumbler, a tote bag, a key tag, a decal, a mug and a keepsake ornament.

You can see everything on one page at the shop, or you can do what the store is built for and walk in through the board.

The directory board

Every hospital has one by the elevator: a board that lists the floors from the top down and the units on each. Our homepage is that board.

Tap your unit and the store opens the Your Unit range with that unit already written into the Unit field on each product page. You did not type anything and you did not sign in. Your browser remembers the choice on your own device; it is not sent to us.

Your hospital’s floors will not match ours. Your ICU may be on 2 and your ED in the basement. The board is a way in, not a map. If your unit is not on it, open any Your Unit product and type your own: 4 WEST, CVICU, ORTHO, BURN. The field takes up to 10 characters and prints them in capitals. A name that runs longer needs the short form your floor already uses on its own whiteboard; Mother-Baby becomes M/B and nobody on the unit blinks.

Days side, nights side

The second question after “which unit” is always “days or nights”. The homepage is split down the middle to match, and a Days / Nights switch remembers which side you are on.

• Days Side is for the 0700 crowd: the ones who take report while the sun comes up and give it back twelve hours later.
• Nights Side is for the people who clock in when the visitors leave and know what the unit sounds like at 0400.

Neither side is the lesser side. Anyone who has worked both knows they are different jobs in the same hallway, with different huddles, different handoffs and a different relationship with the break-room coffee. The designs treat them as two crews of equal standing. If you rotate, order one of each and let the schedule decide.

The credential line

Five products carry your own text: the Unit Sign Tee, the Stacked Name & Credentials Crewneck, the Unit Quarter-Zip Pullover, the Name & Credentials Tumbler and the Name & Unit Key Tag. The Name field takes up to 22 characters and the Credentials field up to 24.

The letters after your name took years. We treat that line with matching care, and care here means precision, not ceremony.

• We print exactly what you type. Spelling, capitals, commas and order. A live preview card on the product page shows the stacked lines as they will print, and the same text appears again in your cart, at checkout and in the order email. No separate proof is sent, so read the preview twice before you add to cart.
• Enter the credentials you hold. We do not verify, grant or imply any licence, degree or certification. The line is yours and so is the responsibility for it.
• The order hint is formatting only. A common convention is highest degree, then licence, then certification, separated by commas, with no periods: “Jordan Lee, BSN, RN”. The guide on the homepage, at the credential line, shows it stacked. If your unit writes it another way, type it your way.
• New letters, new line. When a certification adds letters after your name, last year’s crewneck is out of date. That is a good problem to have. Order the new line when the letters are yours.

A float pool nurse who belongs to every unit and none can leave the Unit field empty. The name and credentials stand on their own.

Honest about dress codes

We will not tell you that an item is cleared for your workplace, because we cannot know that and neither can any other shop. Every employer sets its own rules. Some assign a colour to each role. Some allow a unit sweatshirt over a work top on a cold night shift and some do not. Some allow a printed name and some want only the hospital-issued ID visible.

What we do instead is make the question easy to answer before you pay. The homepage has a “colour your floor wears” picker with six garment colours: Navy, Charcoal, Black, Ceil Blue, Ash Grey and White. Check your unit’s dress code first. If your hospital assigns colours by role, pick the one your role wears; for many buyers that means Navy or Charcoal. If the answer on your floor is “not on shift”, these are still what you wear in the car park at 0645 and in the cafeteria line after report.

If you find out after delivery that your manager says no, the 60-day return window applies.

Whole-unit orders, line by line

Sooner or later someone on the floor, usually the charge nurse or the unit secretary, decides everybody is getting the same crewneck. The homepage has a whole-unit order whiteboard for exactly that moment.

It works the way the assignment board works: one design, and under it one line per person. Each co-worker gets their own line with their own name, their own credentials and their own size. A 5XL and an S sit in the same order without anyone having to announce their size across the station. The tech’s line reads differently from the RN’s line and the respiratory therapist’s line, and each one is right.

Two things we will say up front so nobody has to ask. There is no minimum; three people is a unit order. And there is no group discount; each line costs what the product page says, including the size add-on of $2 for 2XL and 3XL and $4 for 4XL and 5XL, which is shown before you add to cart. We would rather state that plainly than hint at a deal that does not exist.

For Nurses Week, May 6 to 12, count back from the day you want to hand them out. Making takes 1-3 business days and transit takes 7-14 business days, so allow up to 17 business days. That is an estimate from our stated times, not a guarantee. The details are on Shipping & Delivery.

The four dates of a new graduate

A new nurse does not have one big day. There are four, and families often do not know that until they are in the middle of them.

1. Pinning. The ceremony the cohort cares about most. Small room, long hugs.
2. Graduation. The cap-and-gown day for the degree.
3. Boards. The exam that stands between the degree and the licence. “Passed the boards” is the text message everyone is waiting for.
4. First shift. A new grad, an orientee with a preceptor, on a real unit with a real assignment.

The Pinning & First Shift range is built around those four dates. If you are a parent ordering for a December pinning, you can have the parcel sent to your own address and wrap it yourself. One piece of advice from the credential line: think about which letters are true on the day the gift is opened. Many families put the degree on the pinning gift and save the licence letters for a second gift after the boards.

The break room

Not everything is a garment. The Break Room range is the tumbler, the tote bag, the key tag and the decal: the things that sit in a locker, hang off a bag or mark which cup on the counter is yours. They are one size, they need no fitting, and they are what you buy for a work bestie when you do not know whether she wears a medium or a large.

Sizes

Adult apparel runs S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL and 5XL in a unisex cut. A unisex crewneck is roomier than a fitted cut; many women size down for a closer fit, or stay put or size up on purpose for a looser layer over work clothes. The Size Guide explains how to measure and how to choose. We do not offer youth sizes.

What Scrub Ink does not do

A store is defined as much by what it leaves out.

• No work uniforms. The word is in our name, but this store does not sell scrubs or any clinical clothing. We sell tees, sweatshirts, headwear and gifts.
• No medical content. No health tips, no clinical jokes and nothing clinical in the artwork. The store is about what is printed on a shirt, nothing else.
• No slogans. No capes, no wings, no lines telling the public what a nurse is. Your unit and your name say enough.
• No borrowed marks. No hospital, school or brand names or logos, and no cross emblem of any colour. The reasons are in our Intellectual Property Policy.
• No claimed affiliation. Scrub Ink is an independent online store. It is not connected with any hospital, school, board of nursing or professional association.
• No pressure. No countdown clocks, no “only 2 left”, no star ratings we wrote ourselves.
• No delivery-date promises. We give you our stated times and show you how to count. We do not promise a parcel by a ceremony or a holiday.

The numbers we stand on

• Making takes 1-3 business days; transit takes 7-14 business days.
• Free shipping, no minimum, to the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Orders ship from the USA.
• Cancel or change within 24 hours of ordering.
• Return within 60 days of delivery. Personalised items are returnable within the same 60 days. For a change-of-mind return we send a free return label.
• Refund sent within 7 days of receiving the return. Store credit never expires.
• Email replies within 24 hours on business days.

If you order from Australia or New Zealand, read “ward” wherever we say “unit” or “floor”; the fields, the times above and the returns window are the same. The full rules are in the Returns & Exchanges Policy and the FAQs.

Where to find us

Support is by email only. Write at any hour, including 0300 on your lunch; the reply comes within 24 hours on business days.

• Scrub Ink
• 1511 Ahuawa Loop, Honolulu, HI 96816, US
• support@scrubink.shop

What to put in a message for each kind of question is set out on Contact Us.