[Gr8Dane]

I wear an undershirt due to my chest hair and for my personal comfort. I personally think it looks better.

Should we be required to? Well, I guess so, if we can require some of the ladies to shave their mustaches. Just as they can't help that we can't help our chest hair.

[SteveRN21]

Originally Posted by Gr8Dane

Should we be required to? Well, I guess so, if we can require some of the ladies to shave their mustaches. Just as they can't help that we can't help our chest hair.

Exactly..... or the 2" long hair coming out of their chin mole....

[xviii-xxv]

*erm* i think it looks cleaner and more professional if men with chest hairs wear t-shirts under scrub suits. it could give a lil more protection too from the secretions that happened to land on the scrub tops

[KelRN24]

It seems the men balk at being 'made' to wear an undershirt or mandated regarding their uniforms, but they forget that women have been mandated for years to wear certain things or more correctly not wear certain items with uniforms. How about nursing caps? Have you ever seen a man wear one? I have seen women nurses be sent home for not wearing underwear (yes, it's true) or wearing inappropriate garments underneath white scrubs, shirts too low cut so that cleavage shows....so I am not sure it is much different. I don't think exposing cleavage inparticular is appropriate by nurses. It just asks for trouble not too mention the respect factor for the profession...

~KelRN24

Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse. ~Gary Veale

[Gr8Dane]

Well I can safely safe I always wear underwear, white underwear at that when I wear white pants.

I've also seen co-workers wear multicolored undies with white pants, can't help but to look when theres a giant cupcake on their butt!

To each there own tho.

[marikat534]

We have an older doc that is hairy and it is always showing through the top of his scrubs, tho I dunno how I feel about requiring t-shirts it is NOT ATTRACTIVE (esp since he is an older gentleman). If I had a hairy chest I would make more efforts to cover it up. Leave it for the soaps!

[tronix304]

+1 for the t shirt...

[Stanley-RN2B]

Originally Posted by KelRN24

It seems the men balk at being 'made' to wear an undershirt or mandated regarding their uniforms, but they forget that women have been mandated for years to wear certain things or more correctly not wear certain items with uniforms. How about nursing caps? Have you ever seen a man wear one? I have seen women nurses be sent home for not wearing underwear (yes, it's true) or wearing inappropriate garments underneath white scrubs, shirts too low cut so that cleavage shows....so I am not sure it is much different. I don't think exposing cleavage inparticular is appropriate by nurses. It just asks for trouble not too mention the respect factor for the profession...

~KelRN24

Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse. ~Gary Veale

While I do wear t-shirts under my scrubs, it should be by choice.

Men don't wear nursing caps because we wouldn't put up with that nonsense. Men also don't wear red underwear under white scrubs. A nurse, no a person, that doesn't wear underwear to work is just nasty. Come on, be a little realistic.

Of course, a workplace can set whatever dress code it likes, but if I have to cover my chest hair, you better cover your mustache!

[KelRN24]

Originally Posted by StanleyRW

Of course, a workplace can set whatever dress code it likes, but if I have to cover my chest hair, you better cover your mustache!

Now that is mature.

My point is that dress-codes must not have gender biases like they have in the past. Men do not take kindly to the mandates that women have had to conform to.

~KelRN24

[Stanley-RN2B]

Originally Posted by KelRN24

Now that is mature.

My point is that dress-codes must not have gender biases like they have in the past.

Red panties in white scrubs isn't a gender bias. It's a class bias. It's rather tacky and the people that commit that atrocity know it is. It is a choice. Hair on the chest isn't a choice.

Originally Posted by KelRN24

Men do not take kindly to the mandates that women have had to conform to.

~KelRN24

Just because certain behavior is aimed at women more often does not mean it's a gender bias. Not wearing underwear is nasty no matter who does it. Red under wear? White scrubs? Please...

Hair on the chest falls into the same arena as say, some women not cutting their hair or breastfeeding. It is a natural occurrence that shouldn't be punished.

Of course, I am just being contrary. I do wear T-shirts. My g/f told me I had to.

Men!!!!