Help: Tattoo Ideas!!

Okay guys....i just graduated from school and am a real CRNA now. I am very excited and proud to be doing what I'm doing. I was thinking lately of getting a tattoo related to medicine/anesthesia.

I need help coming up with ideas.
I was thinking of either a latin or greek word (want a small one on my wrist). Nothing long and fancy.

I was thinking of the word: VIGILO (which is latin for vigilant).

Any other words, symbols, or phrases you can think of for nurse anesthetists and what we do.

any help would be awesome!!!

That is HILARIOUS!

I frequently work with Special Forces medics, almost every one of whom displays NUMEROUS large tatts. And they regularly add to their collection.

Don't need no steeenkin permission.

I work at a facility that caters to military people. Now if you have EVER worked in the military you will know that the military has the STRICTEST idea of what professionalism is. Civilians really have no idea. I digress... When I show off my rather large Unit Tattoo no one has a problem. Not staff, family or patients.

I agree with your comment about military facilities having a strict idea of professionalism, however, you are wrong saying civillians have no idea when it comes to professionalism. Obviously, our society is becoming more accepting of tatooes, and the military has adapted http://www.army.com/news/item/1404. That does not mean, however, that commanding officers, patients, consumers wont be judgemental when it comes to selecting a specific professional over another.

Some questions for you or anyone who wants to pipe in (they are honest questions I don't know the answer to):

How many seargent majors and generals in military sport visible tatooes?
How many news anchors, elected politicians, justices (even liberal ones), sport visible tatooes?
How many sports stars and rock stars sport visible tatooes? (okay you got me there, but how many of them are associating themeselves with illicit activity, or dying from reckless behavior?)

Now a question for the OP to consider with this controversy:

Have you ever heard of someone being excluded or judged because they did not have a tattoo?

My last question for everyone....do you want a rock star giving you anesthesia?

this is why it is my PERSONAL preference to not have a tattoo, but to each there own.

fine, it is a persons right to decorate their body with whatever they want, but if I am interviewing 30 identical people for one position with identical resumes, awsome report cards, strong recommendations, and flawless clinical performance, the guy with either the swastika tatooed across the back of his neck, or something totally harmless that I don't understand in sanskrit wont be getting the job...sorry. Call it close mindedness, call it old fashioned, whatever, but I am willing to bet that there are a lot of people out there with the same attitude. If you are not willing to accept the reality of that and wish to fight the power, then you choose to do so with certain sacrifices...just accept that when you get the barb-wire tattoed across your neck that you may be fencing off more than an identity problem, and may be paying more than 50 bucks at a tattoo parlor.

here is the reality I refer to: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/workl...ork/index.html

I respect and understand your closed mindedness argument, but certain things you are born into (ie color of your skin and religion), and certain things you choose for yourself...one way to quickly judge a persons character is looking at the decisions they have made.

by the way, don't get so down on the media...have you heard of Urlacher's Backers? Big mean looking linebaker for the Bears has a barbwire tat on his right bicep? Check out what he does for charity. Of course, he is a linebacker, not a nurse anesthetist.

You won't like my answer...

Professionals don't get tattoos. Of course if you want something cute on your butt, where no one else will see it, go right ahead.

I did get the point you were trying to make. Its just that insinuating that people at McDonalds, GM and other such jobs can't be professionals, due to something as trivial as having tattoos,wasn't nice or necessary to the point you were trying to make (IMHO).

Times are changing. Tattoos are becoming mainstream and more accepted. Employers know this, and with the workforce getting younger, I don't think it'll be a huge deal.

Its unfortunate that the decision to modify's one's body gives anybody the right to pre-judge them.

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