Valentine's Day Scrubs: Fall in Love with New Lower Pricing

Tafford is pleased to announce our selection of Valentine's Day prints for 2009 at new lower prices. You'll love our sweetheart deals on heart prints starting at $6.99.

Our new "Love Affair" Valentine's 2 pocket Scrub Top is available for just $9.99! You can also choose the "Love Affair" print in our popular color block style (see left) for just $12.99.

Looking for a jacket to warm-up your heart? Choose "Heartstrings" for just $12.99 or "Heartthrob" for $8.99.

Hurry and get your Valentine's Day scrubs today! We don't want to break your heart, these prints are here for a limited time!

Shop Valentine's Day Scrubs.

Tafford Announces Nursing Scholarship Winners

Tafford is pleased to announce the latest winners of the Tafford Uniforms Nursing Scholarship. Congratulations to Charla Walker and Nathan Brimmer!

Charla Walker has been awarded the scholarship to assist in her pursuit of an Associate’s Degree in Nursing from Bevill State Community College, in Hamilton, Alabama. Charla, who grew up in a single parent, low income family, works two jobs in addition to attending school and volunteering at two local hospitals. Charla strives to achieve a successful career in nursing not only for herself, but to help her family as well.

<Nathan Brimmer, a student at Central Maine Medical Center School of Allied Health Sciences pursuing his Associate’s Degree in Nursing, is an active Wilderness First Responder and first-aid teacher. Brimmer realized he wanted to pursue a career in nursing after volunteering in a New Orleans health clinic after Hurricane Katrina. Nathan’s time in New Orleans reminded him of the plight of those in his home state of Maine who lack quality affordable healthcare. Tafford is proud to support Charla and Nathan as they pursue their nursing degrees.

Please visit: http://www.tafford.com/scholarship.htm to apply for the next round of scholarship awards, to be announced in early 2009.


Charla Walker Nathan Brimmer

Tafford Ugly Scrub Contest Winner!

Congratulations to Angie C, of Little Hocking, Ohio for winning our Ugly Scrub Contest with 54% of the votes! In exchange for her willingness to show off her "Ugly" scrubs, Tafford is providing a $100 gift certificate to start off a new wardrobe.

Thanks to everyone for participating, and congratulations Angie!

Click HERE to browse our decidedly NON-Ugly collection of Nursing Scrubs.

Tafford Ugly Scrub Contest Finalists

Thank you for voting in the Tafford Uniforms "Ugly Scrubs Contest" and thanks to everyone that took the time to dig through their closet and submit pictures.

We have chosen 4 finalists. Please vote for ONE of the following finalists to help us choose the winner of the $100 Tafford Gift Certificate. Please don't take offense if your entry has or hasn't been chosen, this contest is all about having fun at our own expense!

All voting must be completed by August 18th 2008 and the winner will be announced soon thereafter.

Please vote using the poll at the top of our blog homepage: tafford.blogspot.com.

Here are your choices:

Option 1: "Gone to the Dogs":


Option 2: "1970's Floral":


Option 3: "High and Tight":

Option 4: "Devine Feline":

New Tafford Halloween Prints are Here!

Tafford's collection of Halloween Scrub Tops are a spooky dose of fun for everyone! Shop our Scrubs BOO-tique and choose from a great selection of our exclusive selection of Halloween scrubs including 2 pocket scrub tops, crossover scrub tops warm up- scrub jackets and more. There's something fun for everyone and prices start at just $12.99.

Shop our Halloween BOO-tique today!

Report for Duty with Camouflage Scrubs

Tafford has recently updated its wide selection of camo scrubs. Tafford has the widest selection of camo nursing uniforms on the web including our popular camouflage crossover scrub top with pure pink trim (see left) that matches perfectly with your Tafford Essentials solid scrubs. Or choose our new camo pants to match. We even offer camo warmup scrub jackets and scrub hats to complete the look.

We are your headquarters for camo scrubs, starting at just $11.99. Shop Tafford today!

Tafford Uniforms Scholarship Winner Profiled

Happy Nurses Week!

Misty Blue Foster, one of Tafford's recent outstanding scholarship winners, is featured this month on the Better Health & Living website. As you can see by the article, Misty Blue was certainly a deserving scholarship winner:

Foster knew from an early age that nursing was the path for her. She says she
wanted to give back to those who grew up as she did--alone, scared, and without
hope. Her eventual goal is to become a pediatric nurse. “What I remember most is
how kind the nurses were to me when I was a kid,” she says. “I wanted to grow up
to be just like them. So I did.”

Congratulations Misty Blue! Thanks for your hard work, and for being a great representative of the Tafford Uniforms Nursing Scholarship program.

Article Link: http://www.betterhealthandliving.com/articles/beating_the_odds/

To register for the latest Tafford Uniforms Nursing Scholarship award, please visit:
http://www.tafford.com/scholarship.htm

Nursing Graduation at Tafford

Tafford is your source for nursing graduation gifts. Whether you are looking for a nursing graduation dress or for great gift ideas for your favorite nursing school graduate.

Tafford recommends outfitting the graduating nurse with items to start their career off right. Choose from nursing scrubs, stethoscopes (many brands including Littmann), Dansko shoes, a Sphygmomanometer (blood pressure cuff), nursing accessories, and more.

Still not sure what to give? Give the gift of choice with a Tafford Gift Certificate. We've got great ideas to help celebrate nursing school graduation. Visit Tafford today!

Scrub Wear for Canada!

Tafford Style, Quality, and Value – Now with Fast, Friendly Shipping to Canada

Tafford Uniforms is pleased to announce that we now offer Canadian shipping on all Tafford nursing uniforms, nursing shoes, and medical accessories.

Tafford has partnered with a division of Canada Post to offer a seamless shopping experience for our Canadian customers. Canadian medical professionals can visit shop Tafford’s wide selection of nursing uniforms, scrubs, nurse shoes, and simply select “Canadian Checkout” when finished shopping. Upon entering the Canadian checkout process, prices are automatically converted to Canadian Dollars and appropriate duties, taxes and shipping/handling costs are included, so there are no surprises when the package shows up at your door.

Tafford scrub wear leads the nursing uniform industry with features that include softer, more durable fabrics, reinforced stress seams, bar-tacked corners, and stylish selections of perfectly coordinated print and solid scrubs. Canadian customers will find Tafford scrub wear to be an incredible value, especially given the recent strength of the Canadian Dollar.

We are also a one stop shop for Canadian nurses and medical professionals. Choose from your favorite footwear brands including Dansko, Merrell, Cherokee, NurseMates, Skechers, Birki's, and more! We also offer stethoscopes and medical accessories from Littmann, Prestige Medical Clip-eze, as well as an array of medical literature and study guides.

We offer Canadian delivery to all Provinces via Canada Post. pPease visit Tafford.com where you can shop online or request a free Tafford catalogue. You can also request a catalogues on the phone by calling +1-800-697-3321, toll-free between 9am and 5pm Eastern Time, Monday through Friday.

National Nurses Week

National Nurses Week is celebrated annually from May 6th (also known as National Nurses Day) through May 12th, the birthday of Florence Nightingale (the founder of modern nursing). The origins of Nurses Week date back to 1953, when President Eisenhower was urged to proclaim a National Nurses Day. The proclamation was never issued but National Nurses Week was celebrated in October 1954 nonetheless. President Reagan formally proclaimed National Nurses Day on May 6th in 1982, and the ANA began celebrating National Nurses Week every May in 1990.

Whether you rely on the skilled care of nurses every day, or your life was briefly touched by a nurse that went above and beyond the call of duty, National Nurses Week 2008 is the time to show your recognition of, and appreciation for, the nurses in your life. Tafford offers a great selection of nursing gifts for every budget. Starting at just $0.99, we offer a variety of nurse gifts including nursing scrubs, gift certificates, stethoscopes, nursing tees, fun nursing socks, tote bags, badge holders, and more! If you are buying for a large group of nurses, call us at 1-888-TAFFORD Monday-Friday between 9 and 5 Eastern Time to learn about volume discounts for 2008 Nurses Week.

Show your appreciation this Nurses Week with a nursing recognition gift from Tafford. Don’t know what to buy? Give the gift of choice with a Tafford Gift Certificate!

Spring Training! Baseball Scrubs at Tafford

Spring is here, and Tafford offers an exclusive selection of baseball medical scrubs to get you into the swing of things on baseball's opening day.

Our "Have a Ball" unisex scrub top is available for just $15.99, or choose our unisex baseball embroidered scrub top for just $19.99. Top it all off with our "Have a Ball" print scrub hat and you are ready to take the field.

Tafford's "Have a Ball" print scrub top and scrub cap are both made of a super-soft 100% cotton fabric to keep you cool and comfortable this spring. Check out our baseball scrubs, and our entire selection of spring nursing scrubs today!

Birki's

Birki’s was founded in 1993 in Germany by Stephan Birkenstock, and remains part of the Birkenstock family today. All Birki's professional shoes feature Birkenstock’s famous cork-latex footbed and Birki’s also offers professional and leisure clogs made of ALPRO®-foam with exchangeable, anatomically molded footbeds. Birki's offers fashionable clogs and sandals in a variety of colors and designs to compliment every medical uniform.

Birki’s stands for the highest quality, innovation, and design and the company continually challenges itself to identify even better quality standards. Birki’s product development, production and sales teams work closely together to double-check the quality of their clogs and sandals throughout the production process. Utilizing state-of-the art facilities with the highest standards, Birki's produces the best quality shoes available.

Birki's are not only good for your feet, but they are also good for our environment. Ecological responsibility is close to Birki’s heart and a core aspect of the company. Since the foundation of the company, Birki’s has demonstrated commitment to saving scarce resources in their manufacturing processes. Most Birki’s footbeds are made of a cork-latex mixture. Birki´s uses only the purest, high-quality cork. Many painstaking steps are taken to harvest the raw material from the Portuguese cork-oak tree by hand to ensure the protection of both the precious tree and the premium bark.

Tafford offers a great selection of Birki's at value prices. Try Birki’s clogs today!

Cheap Scrubs

Every month, there are about 10,000 internet searches for the term “cheap scrubs”. At Tafford, we wonder if cheap scrubs are really that cheap in the long run. If you pay $4.99 for a cheap scrub top and it wears out after 3 washes, was it really cheap? If a pair of cheap scrub pants doesn’t fit you right and you are uncomfortable all day, are the cheap scrubs worth it?

At Tafford, we manufacture our nursing scrubs to go the distance. You’ll find comfort and durability features like cotton-rich fabrics, tagless scrub tops, double stitched stress seams, bar-tacked pockets, and more! You’ll find seven styles of pants to fit every body. You’ll find 25 colors and a range of sizes including XXS, plus sizes, petites, and talls. Since we control the design and manufacturing process, we can offer our high quality scrubs at value prices that won’t hurt your pocketbook. Some of our prices maybe cheap, but we do not sell any “cheap scrubs.”

If you are on a tight budget and want to save, join our email program and stay tuned for special discount offers and free shipping specials. Join the Tafford Scrub Club and earn points towards free merchandise with every purchase. Or visit our clearance section for cheap scrubs -- Tafford style. Our clearance section has discount scrubs in every size shape, and color, so you can buy your scrubs on the cheap, but don’t have to settle for “cheap scrubs”. Visit Tafford today and see what we have in store for you!

Check Out our Deal$ of the Week

Tafford introduces our "Deal$ of the Week" special sales items. Now you don't have to wait for an overstock clearance to save on the latest Tafford designer scrub uniforms. Check out the Tafford Deal$ of the Week page for discount scrub tops, warm-up jackets, shoes, and accessories -- often from the latest Tafford catalog.

Our Deal$ of the Week discounts change every Thursday, so check back often before these deals are gone!

Batik Scrubs are Here

Tafford's new Batik Scrubs have arrived and are already causing a stir.

Our incredible selection of batik scrubs, including batik scrub tops, batik scrub pants, scrub jackets, and scrub hats. Tafford's all-cotton batik fabrics are hand dyed in Bali, Indonesia, so no 2 batik garments are alike, and slight variations in color can be expected. Your Tafford batik print scrubs will coordinate perfectly with our Tafford Essentials solid scrubs - just check the description to see what color scrub pants will match your favorite batik scrub top. New Tafford Batik Scrubs are unlike any nursing scrubs you will ever purchase, try them today!

Plus Size Nursing Scrubs

Despite statistical data that suggests that the average American women's size 14, with a majority of the female population wearing 14 or greater, most nursing uniform manufacturers continue to provide only clothing for smaller-sized customers. Tafford's exclusive line of plus size scrubs for women size 20 and higher, was designed to provide the plus size medical professional with nursing scrubs that are stylish, professional and right fit for plus sized individuals. All Tafford Essentials solid scrubs and Tafford exclusive print scrubs are available in plus sizes 2XL, 3XL, and 4XL. Select colors and styles are now available in extended sizes 5X/5XL and 6X/6XL.

We believe that extended and plus size nurses and medical professionals deserve the same professional and stylish look as everyone else. We do not offer limited plus sizes by color or style – all of our styles of nursing scrubs are available in plus sizes and extended sizes. In Tafford catalogs and on tafford.com, you will find our plus size nursing uniforms showcased on plus size models so you can see exactly how our nursing scrubs will fit you. You will also find a great selection of wide-width nursing shoes, plus size support socks and hosiery, plus size lab coats, tees, polos, and more!

Tafford Announces Latest Nursing Scholarship Winners

Misty Blue Foster and Solande Louis Named Recipients of Tafford Uniforms Nursing Scholarship





Tafford Uniforms, a leading supplier of nursing scrubs, shoes, and medical accessories, today announced that two students have been awarded the Tafford Uniforms Nursing Scholarship. Misty Blue Foster and Solande Louis are the third and fourth recipients of the Tafford Uniforms Nursing Scholarship, which was first awarded in June 2007.

The Tafford Uniforms Scholarship Committee selected two winners of $1,000 scholarships from an incredible pool of applicants. Solande Louis, a student at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, realized that she wanted to be a nurse while watching the dedicated nurses care for her ailing mother. Solande has accumulated over 1,000 hours of volunteer service at hospitals and nursing homes while working full time and pursuing her BSN in Nursing.

"Making a difference in people's lives and putting a smile on their faces, no matter what the situation may be, is the dream I long for," said Louis. "I am greatly honored to have encountered those nurses who have unknowingly made a major impact on my life and decision to become a nurse. I will continue to pursue my dream and refuse to allow any hindrances."

Misty Blue Foster, an LVN candidate at Nursing Care Providers Vocational School, was raised in the California state foster care system after the loss of her mother, began working in healthcare while in high school, and eventually earned her CNA license. Misty Blue is currently pursuing the completion of an LVN program, with the ultimate goal of becoming a pediatric RN.

"I hope in the future, I can change the world little by little for those like me who grew up without a loving home, and felt there was no hope," said Foster. "I want to give love and hope to those not only from the foster care system, but also those sick from cancer, devastating acquired illnesses, terminal illnesses, and congenital disorders. I want to help educate others worldwide that life's circumstances don't determine who you are, or what you become. Destiny is determined by ones' choices, and what they do with the circumstances they face."

"Solande and Misty have both overcome tremendous obstacles to achieve their nursing career objectives and we are proud to play a small part in helping them reach their goals," said Gene S. Godick, CEO and co-owner of Tafford Uniforms. "There is an acute need for qualified nurses at all levels, and we are glad that we can help such highly qualified and motivated professionals enter this critically needed profession."

Tafford Uniforms anticipates awarding two (2) $1,000 scholarships twice per year on an ongoing basis. Students eligible to apply must be enrolled in an accredited nursing program towards an associate's (or LPN, LVN), bachelor's (BSN), or master's (MSN) degree in nursing. Tafford is currently accepting applications for the next round of scholarships to be awarded in June 2008. To apply for a Tafford Uniforms Nursing Scholarship, please visit: http://www.tafford.com/scholarship.htm.

St. Patrick’s Day Scrubs and Easter Scrubs

Just in time for St. Patty’s day, Tafford has unveiled a new color of Tafford Essentials Solid scrubs - Jade Stone! Our exclusive St. Patrick’s Day scrubs are designed to coordinate perfectly with Jade Stone and many of your other favorite Tafford Essentials colors. Compliment your St Patricks Day scrubs with our “Nurse’s have all the luck” long sleeve tee and shamrock socks by K. Bell.

Hop to it! Easter is March 23rd this year, so you don’t have much time to stock up on your Easter scrubs. Look for our Easter scrubs to give you Eggs-actly what you need for Easter in an array of styles and designed to coordinate with our pastel Tafford Essentials colors – buttercup, grasshopper, passion flower, pure pink, crystal blue, and more. Get your feet in the spirit of spring with our Easter Bunny socks by K. Bell.

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Valentine’s Day Scrubs Now Available!

Tafford has all your Valentine’s Day needs covered. Tafford is all about heart this time of year. From heart scrubs to heart stethoscopes and heart socks – even our exclusive “Nursing is All Heart” long sleeve tee.

Follow Cupid over to Tafford and check out what’s in store for you!

• Valentine Scrubs
• Heart Stethoscope
• Heart Socks
• Heart T-shirt
• Valentine’s Day Scrubs

Plus, shop now and get a head start on St. Patrick's Day Scrubs and Easter Scrubs

New! Scrub Caps at Tafford

Tafford now has scrub hats to compliment your favorite Tafford scrubs. From bouffant and tie back scrub hats that match your favorite Tafford Essentials colors to printed and pattern scrub caps in the latest styles, Tafford is the place to keep your head professionally covered at work!

Shop Tafford Scrub Hats:

• All Scrub Hats
• Bouffant Scrub Hat
• Pattern Scrub Caps
• Solid Scrub Caps