Nurses please try to look a little more polished at work

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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.

:hug: Thank you!

So...if you are only byhis grace you are proclaiming yourself a Christian. Yet here you are bashing other people. That is not very Christian. I'm glad you're so perfect and everyone else isnt. Careful lest ye fall...you know pride goeth before one and all.

hi nursing student here, but i have been nurse aide stna or nursing assistant for 8 years now.. and ummm lol!!! everything the person posted is very true, i myself smoke. but only once during my shift on my 30 minute lunch break and i rinse my mouth out before returning to work. and i do think its very unprofessional to wear loud colored hair, smell like who knows what, and have long nails or false nails and many other sad things that nurses do in the workplace. i think some of you are taking what she is saying way too far, like the whole make up issue, they person didnt mean come to work looking like mimi from the drew carey show. lmao (one of my class mates dresses like her) but what the person is simply saying is look like u want to be at work, what people see is what they perceive and if u look like trash people will speculate and think you are trash. i agree with many of u and i thought this post was hilarious, simple because people read way too far into some things, plus some of u are funny. thanks for the laugh! now back to something that had to do with homework and excuse my typos im suppose to be studying for a test in the morning. lol

very very true

I've worked with many nurses who either bathed in cologne or didn't bath at all, yuck.

I would also say that I have worked/work with nurses who do attempt to dress sexually provocative at work. The whole rolling down the top of the scrub pants until I can tell that you shaved today is not abnormal. As a man I do not complain about this new fashion trend but as a professional it really brings down the image of the whole profession. The presentation that our cohorts and our facilities make is extremely important in maintaining the patient to nurse relationship. Our profession enjoys a certain level of inherent trust that many professions, including physicians, do not. Let's not naively think that the trust fostered between the nurse and patient is solely due to the tasks we perform at bedside.

We are professionals, we should ALL act like it.

Specializes in Addiction, Psych, Geri, Hospice, MedSurg.

I agree with the overall point being made...

I recently had an extended stay in the hospital - 6 weeks and 4 surgeries. Yes, this nurse was not happy.

The smokers I could tell from my door way. Being at the hospital, it is even more noticeable... and geez, it really, really does stink... and I do smoke in times of stress. It made me nauseated. And, someone who was NPO for 3 weeks before they put me on TPN and force me to eat, did not need that wafting into my room taking any semblance of appetite I may have gathered during the day.

I had one elderly aide, sweet as pie, bu ohhh the perfume. Oh it was just terrible. It wasn't subtle at all, and made me feel bad... just feel bad. Head swimming and all.

The hair never bothered me. Whether or not they had make up on, big whoop. They were there to save my life, not worry if their mascara was running, or if their curls fell, or their hair was frizzing due to humidity.

Professionalism does speak volumes though, especially if you want to advance in your career.

Just my $.02

Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.

I work on a burn unit. Doing a big, two-hour dressing change in heavy, splash-resistant gowns in a room that has a temperature set to 99 degrees...doesn't bode well for my smell integrity. Our unit does have a shower and locker room...but who has the time to shower and change??

(Am I the only person who thinks that they really need to make boob deodorant? That's really what sweats the most on me.)

When I was working pediatric private duty, I would wear scrubs to the first few home visits -- however, for my long-term kiddos that I was the primary on, I usually reverted to sweat pants and t-shirts.

Specializes in Addiction, Psych, Geri, Hospice, MedSurg.

Professionalism is more associated with inoffensive hygiene or "neutral hygiene" rather than the application of positive hygiene. The idea is not to smell good but to not smell at all, the idea is not to look good but to look competent, professional, inoffensive, neutral.

I thought this could bear repeating. Very well stated.

Specializes in Addiction, Psych, Geri, Hospice, MedSurg.

(Am I the only person who thinks that they really need to make boob deodorant? That's really what sweats the most on me.)

Heh, no... but I invested in boob coolers. They are great :)

Pair of Cool58™ Bra Coolers

Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.
Heh, no... but I invested in boob coolers. They are great :)

Pair of Cool58™ Bra Coolers

OMG! I love you. I am seriously in the middle of buying a pair.

Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.

edit - double post, sorry.

Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

I would look pretty ridiculous with makeup and manicured nails....

I would look pretty ridiculous with makeup and manicured nails....

Right.

So you better have a tight butt and 6-pack abs.

Remember: you gotta look hot-t-t-t-t!

I would look pretty ridiculous with makeup and manicured nails....

Hmm, don't knock til you've tried it!

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