male nurse haircut rules

You are training to be a professional nurse, not an expressive artist. :-) Just kidding, but there is truth to that! Anyway, just go with the rules during nursing school. I'm sure you can find a hospital to work for that is more relaxed than others.

Opinion below:

To be seen as a professional, you need to dress and act like one. It's great to be an individual, but does a hairstyle really have to be the display? I mean the coolest people i've ever known aren't cool for their hairstyle but for their personality.

I think fad hairstyles or anything nuts makes it harder for a patient to accept you as a competent caregiver. You could end up spending extra time qualifying yourself to provide care where it could be spent doing something important.

Just my thoughts

Opinion over

Our school required that all tats be covered. But there are nurses working that have tats on the neck. I have 3/4 sleeves that include skulls and animals (got when I was young and a bit more controversial) but I always wear long sleeves, mainly because our population at our hospital is pretty nitty-gritty - lots of IVDU, homeless, etc., as well as highly diverse ethnically. I just feel a lot more professional if I don't look like I am as "street" as the clientele - and it seems that the patients prefer me this way too. Also, little old ladies (and many of their families) still expect a nurse to look a certain way.

I think there is some unfairness in the way males are treated. Lots of female nurses on the floor have long hair completely unrestrained. This is not acceptable for males. I wouldn't want to have my have my hair down like that anyway. I have seen nurses hair cross dirty areas and even wounds eww. But I still think it is unfair to have a double standard. I also have about a 3/4 sleeve on one arm with skulls and bones and spiders. I keep it covered as required both in school and in working at the hospital. I have been surprised that it makes some people nervous/freaked out so I just keep it covered. I do know a fellow student with full sleeves who hasn't had much problem. He wears long sleeves almost all the time sometimes 3/4. Some of his is on his neck too so far no big problem. Policy at the hospital has been SLOWLY loosening now stands at "if hired with tatoos they must be covered as much as practical." It's pretty conservative and rural here so I see that as fairly progressive. Earrings are limited to two per ear but I have seen more on some nurses.

Totally sexist program here. I look hot shaggy and scruffy, so they turn a blind eye. If you're a guy and don't wear it well you get a talking to. I don't think it's fair... but then again that kid [i]did[i] really look bad....

I have long hair....shoulder length hair, and I start nursing school this fall...hope this doesn't interfere with my schooling. If so...I'll gladly tie it back into a pony tail...but cut it? NEVER THAT! lol

My hair has been bordline raggedy at times and with scruffy facial hair..varying from clean shaven to looking like a bum and havent heard one comment on my appearance..

Exactly just how does a "professional" dress and wear their hair? I am an old guy and I remember this being the discussion back in the seventies but I thought we had gotten past all that. Kind of like when they required women to wear those funny hats and white dresses. It has been alot of years since I heard of a school or work place requiring men to wear short hair to look "professional". Some of our MDs have long hair, wear short pants when visiting patients... I remember one MD at a hospital I did clinicals at that would wear shorts and sandals to the hospital and everyone still had alot of repect for him because he was a good doctor. I wear my hair short but wish my employer would try to tell me how to wear it; I need the money and so does my attorney

I did some clinicals at a facility that limits facial hair to a "neatly trimmed moustache". The best part about this is that several doctors who sit on the board, and thus help make the rules, have Van Dykes, goatees, and one who bears (pun intended) a striking resemblence to Grizzly Adams. Proof that the people who make the rules don't have to follow them.

As for tats, if I were a patient I think I would rather see the thing rather than have it covered by a bandage. The bandage implies a wound and I would wonder what kind of infection that person might be carrying around under there.

by the law, there has to be gender neutral (same for both sexes) hair regs, if they aren't gender neutral, they're just asking for trouble, lawsuit.