EPIC SCRUBS Logo Celebrates The Art Of Healing
Our Logo pays homage to Florence Nightingale who was born in Florence, Italy, on May 12, 1820. During the Crimean War, she and a team of nurses improved the unsanitary conditions at a British base hospital, reducing the death count by two-thirds. While doing her rounds in the evenings she moved through the dark hallways carrying a lamp as she administered to each patient. The soldiers, who were both moved and comforted by her endless compassion, took to calling her " The Lady With The Lamp". Her writings sparked worldwide health care reform, and to this day, Florence is broadly acknowledged and revered as the pioneer of modern nursing.
I encourage every care giver who wears EPIC SCRUBS to embody a spirit of resilience, perseverance, compassion, and knowledge in their profession. EPIC SCRUBS celebrates these individuals who contribute daily to the well-being and care of their patients. In doing so, together we weave a thread that touches people’s lives, and strengthens the fabric of humanity by their dedication to patient care.
About Marieta RN
Marieta has been an active full time Registered Nurse in the USA for 40+ years in a magnet hospital. When she started her career as a nurse, she began designing her own uniforms because she could not find scrubs that properly fit her. She is greatly inspired by her late Mother who made her first pair of Nursing Scrubs. She is also inspired by all the hard working people in the medical field, especially women, who continue to be the largest segment contributing to patient care.
This veteran RN has now taken her passion for apparel design and combined it with the knowledge she's gleaned from working in a broad spectrum of nursing specialties. From having collaborated long term with health care professionals in the USA and abroad, she knows first-hand what health care professionals want and need from their work apparel.
Marieta was not satisfied to simply design her line of EPIC SCRUBS, then send the pattern off to a factory in the middle of who-knows-where. Instead, she traveled for 1 month to visit textile markets and manufacturers around the globe.
Marieta doing textile research throughout Southeast Asia
Armed only with an interpreter, a passion for design, and common sense, she explored each hot and bustling textile market and warehouse in a journey that demanded the attention of all her senses. Each narrow alley way eventually led her to helpful people and unique textile patterns. Each manufacturer she met with led to valuable knowledge.
The result is smartly designed fashion-forward apparel tailored to health care professional's daily practical real-world needs while looking great and providing what we call an "easy wear-easy care" experience.
Awards
- 2005 Nursing Excellence Award : To recognize and honor Marieta Atienza RN for her exceptional dedication, commitment, and leadership in providing outstanding care to our patients, their families, and community.
- 2011 Laura Vogel Humanitarian Award : To recognize and Marieta Atienza RN for her commitment & leadership in humanitarian services to our communities.
Humanitarian Efforts
EPIC SCRUBS founder Marieta Atienza volunteers her nursing skills Locally & Globally to those in need
Photo 1 : Treating a trauma patient in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Photo 2 : Weighing babies at a clinic in Tanzania Africa
Photo 3 : Enjoying the smile of a baby at a birthing wing of a small hospital in Baharamulu
Making new friends and sharing lunch on a foot path in Tanzania, Africa
When not working, Marieta spends her vacation time volunteering locally and internationally with non-profit organizations to do humanitarian work utilizing her skills as a nurse, and as a fellow human being.
She responded to the 2010 earthquake disaster in Haiti with Konbit Sante', then returned to Haiti 6 months later to follow up on the trauma patients she cared for. She was instrumental in the successful effort to bring a Haitian nurse back to the USA to be trained as a wound care nurse in the hospital she works at. Marieta housed her in her own home during her training.
Teaching a Massai child English alphabet
House call in Cambodia
In 2012 Marieta traveled to Tanzania Africa with Partners For World Health to care for patients in need of medical attention, and assess the needs of small hospitals and remote clinics, and to hand deliver 14 hockey duffle bags filled with much needed medical supplies to a small hospital in Baharamulu
In 2014 Marieta traveled to Southeast Asia, stopping in Cambodia to do a follow-up house call on a patient she cared for at the Magnet Hospital in New England where she works as an RN . While visiting the USA the patient became critically ill by an Asian Liver Fluke she contracted from her home country .