Hair & clinical

rubato, ASN, RN · Jul 8, 2012

Yeah, mine too. Guess I'll have to figure something else out. I'm going to my stylist next week. I'll get her to show me a bun that's actually attractive on me (I have big ears).

Seas · Jul 8, 2012

French braid it. Very neat looking and professional.

Daisy_08, BSN, RN · Jul 8, 2012

I was just wondering what the requirements are for hair during clinical rotations? I know each school is different, but I assume they won't differ much. I have long hair and hate wearing it in a pony tail out, it makes me look like a little kid. I'm already little. I was thinking of getting a shorter hair cut..

Just stick it in a pony tail, bun, braid or whatever. Also needs to be away from your face, no long bangs. You`ll just have to get over looking like a little kid.

CRNBSN18 · Jul 8, 2012

Just stick it in a pony tail, bun, braid or whatever. Also needs to be away from your face, no long bangs. You`ll just have to get over looking like a little kid.

My point of not wanting to look like a little kid is because I probably wouldn't be taken seriously. Or be thought that I'm "too young".. When I'm not. It's not me being naive or worrying about my appearance. I just want to be taken seriously.

Daisy_08, BSN, RN · Jul 8, 2012

My point of not wanting to look like a little kid is because I probably wouldn't be taken seriously. Or be thought that I'm "too young".. When I'm not. It's not me being naive or worrying about my appearance. I just want to be taken seriously.

I looked all about 12 when I first started. You need to act professionally and *most people will treat you that way. I got plenty of too young comments, you just show them that you are competent and capable.

On a side note the elderly will love you in a good way.

CRNBSN18 · Jul 8, 2012

I looked all about 12 when I first started. You need to act professionally and *most people will treat you that way. I got plenty of too young comments, you just show them that you are competent and capable.
On a side note the elderly will love you in a good way.

Professionalism is an option? LOL. jk. It's not an option to me, but I know that not everyone thinks that way. Thanks for the advice!

BloomNurseRN, ASN, BSN, RN · Jul 8, 2012

My hair is very long, hanging below my rear end. My program requires hair to be up and off the collar so I just put it in a bun or cute up do and don't have to worry about it. Really, you want your hair away from your face and anything that could get into it. There are many times you will be leaning over patients and with any hair hanging down that leaves open the possibility of contamination. It makes me cringe when I see nurses wearing their hair down when hangs inches below their shoulders. Seems so unnecessary and illadvised to me.

daisy2daisy · Jul 8, 2012

I was just wondering what the requirements are for hair during clinical rotations? I know each school is different, but I assume they won't differ much. I have long hair and hate wearing it in a pony tail out, it makes me look like a little kid. I'm already little. I was thinking of getting a shorter hair cut..

I have shoulder length hair. Way back in '94 I was required to pin it up during clinical rotations. I now understand my clinical instructors were trying to engrain in my mushy brain an understanding of why long hair dangling around pt care is soo unsanitary! I have always seen nurses having to lean over their pts to change bloody dressings, clean goopy trachs, or bend down to inspect their rectal are and all that free flowing hair draping on the pts gown or bed rails. EEWW! To this day I wear my hair UP in a nice twist and wash it EVERY night after work. It's just totally unsanitary to have hair hanging down !

SCSTxRN · Jul 8, 2012

When I started nursing school, I had hair down the middle of my back - I used a snood. I pulled it up in a half updo so that I had some height on top and bangs, and the rest of it went in a fancy hair net that kept it up off my collar.

When I got it cut to above the bra strap, I went with a pony bun - a much smaller snood.

I used french braids and stuff, too, but the snood was my go to.

CRNBSN18 · Jul 8, 2012

I have shoulder length hair. Way back in '94 I was required to pin it up during clinical rotations. I now understand my clinical instructors were trying to engrain in my mushy brain an understanding of why long hair dangling around pt care is soo unsanitary! I have always seen nurses having to lean over their pts to change bloody dressings, clean goopy trachs, or bend down to inspect their rectal are and all that free flowing hair draping on the pts gown or bed rails. EEWW! To this day I wear my hair UP in a nice twist and wash it EVERY night after work. It's just totally unsanitary to have hair hanging down !

Ewww. Yeah. I get it. Gross. I'll happily comply! Lol.

DisneyNurseGal, BSN, RN · Jul 8, 2012

At my school we have to do the "lean forward" test. Whatever your hairstyle, when you lean forward, you hair may not fall in your face. The long haired girls do the ponytail, bun updo route. With my short A-Line cut as long as I tuck my hair behind my ears, I pass the test. Sometimes, I use a comb to pull one side just to do something different.

Horsebytes · Jul 9, 2012

I got a short cut but still feminine looking - like lady Di's "do" - if you remember her. Amazingly I absolutely love love love it! I would have never ever of gone this short if it were not for school. I love having it off my neck and feeling cool and not having to worry with it.