Nurses please try to look a little more polished at work

Nurses General Nursing

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To the smokers I work with, please do yourselves and patients a favor by brushing your teeth after smoking. the smell of smoke makes me gag, and I feel sorry for your already nauseated patients.

To the supervisor that baths in his cologne... don't. it smells horrible.

To the nurse with the huge blond hair. it looks like a bomb was set off in your hair. did you use a whole bottle of stiff on it? and you may want to wear better fitting scrubs, I'm curvy as well, but I don't like to show my curves at work.

Yes, I do like to wear make up and manicured nails( no chipping, or fakes nails) to work everyday. not only does it make me feel good but patients notice as well. looks are first impressions, and I like to make a good one.

OK, I've gotta have a pair of those.......the area below the breasts is one of THE worst places to sweat, but with triple-D's there's no way around it in the summertime. Can't wait to try 'em. Thanks for the link!

there is also a product called Anti Monkey Butt powder - it absorbs sweat and reduces chafing...and it has a very very light scent - I coat my boobs in it!!

Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

I dont know why you ladies are complaining. Make up is easy to put on. Just ask homer simpson and his makeup shotgun

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What about bad breath?

Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
I may be wrong, but OnlybyHisGrace seems to have some kind of personal vendetta against someone! I have not known any nurse who smells like they bath in cologne. Where I work all nurses are required to keep their hair off their collar and are not allowed to have any unnatural hair color. Not everyone wants to wear make up and should not be forced expected to. As for wearing scrubs that do not show your curves - get a life! nurses do not deliberately wear scrubs that are too small. Oh yes, how do you have so much time to spend concerning yourself with how your colleagues present themselves for work everyday? Real nurses spend their time on patient care.

Well, I sure have worked with some nurses who smelled like they'd marinated the night before in their fragrance of choice. Note: please, please, please...no patchouli or Estee Lauder's "Youth Dew." If you have a co-worker with asthma or migraine, you have no idea how hard it is for them to work with that smell. I had to take a sick day once after spending all day inhaling patchouli.

Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.

i don't know how to directly quote the post and bring it over here, but here's the link, and it's post # 12. stemi. quiet.

https://allnurses.com/nursing-humor-share/describe-ugliest-scrubs-462724-page2.html#post4185628

What about bad breath?

That's why I have a toothbrush at work and chew gum (yes, I do that nasty gum-chewing!).

I'm sorry, but when I'm all in my pt's face checking pupils or oral mucosa, I'm not keen on breathing dragon-fire!

Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
I would look pretty ridiculous with makeup and manicured nails....

IDK. This guy is rocking' more eye makeup than I ever wore, even in the 80s, and it looks pretty good on him.

i don't know how to directly quote the post and bring it over here, but here's the link, and it's post # 12. stemi. quiet.

https://allnurses.com/nursing-humor-share/describe-ugliest-scrubs-462724-page2.html#post4185628

yes!!!

that's it!

that is my most favorite post ever!!!

lol!

thank you for linking to that because i couldn't figure out how to do it.

Specializes in Managed Care, Onc/Neph, Home Health.

The fingernails is what gets to me. I have seen "claws". Makes one wonder how on earth does she wipe her ***. Much less going from patient to patient. God forbid if a fingernail break thru a glove while cleaning up a runny TF enhanced poop :eek:

Not to mention that when you have long nails and you scratch a patient, you've just pretty much injected nasty microorganisms into your patient's skin. Mix that with a patient with a compromised immune system and it's not nice.

Long nails and hair that is not pulled back does not belong.

I don't care if your hair is blue or you are tatted to the nth degree, but long nails and unmanaged long hair really is a problem.

Specializes in School Nursing.
Never judge a book by its cover.. ya never know, the "untidy" nurses you refer to OP, may have been up all noc with a sick kid, unable to sleep, had a huge fight with the significant other. The list goes on and on..

This is my thought. I've had a rough couple of months, and pretty much I am doing good just to show up at work every day bathed and clothed. My priorities in the morning are getting the kids up and ready for school/daycare, and makeup and ironing are about the bottom of my priority list. I hope others at my work will forgive that I come to work with frizzy hair because I don't have the time or energy to flat iron it. I hope they forgive that I have abandoned makeup because that extra 10 minutes of sleep matters when you are only averaging 3-4 hours per night. I hope they forgive that I "iron" my clothes by throwing them in the dryer with a damp washcloth. I'm doing the best I can right now!

I agree with the OP completely about smelling of smoke or perfume. Both trigger migraines for me and asthma attacks for some of the kids I work with. As far as the rest of your appearance, there is such a wide range of personalities and appearances in the world, I can't say that I even notice sometimes. There have been times when someone will mention to me "have you noticed how much makeup she wears", or "have you noticed how his pants are too short for him", and I can honestly answer, no I have not. I guess I am just the type to take a person at face value and accept them where they are as far as appearances go. I would hope others would do the same concerning me!

Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
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