Chewing Gum

[Otessa]

Do any of your hospitals ban staff from chewing gum?

I have been places where they look like they should be in the Grease movies or are auditioning to be a cow.

Looks very unprofessional, IMO.

[amoLucia]

I have SEVERE dry mouth r/t meds I take and parotid gland calculi. Chewing gum is an approach for better saliva production & comfort.

However, I don't chew gum simply because I BITE the inside of my mouth. Like really BITE badly - drawing blood and leaving those nasty welts on the mucosa.

So just FYI - there just may be a good reason for chewing gum.

I also think of folk who have to refrain from smoking or are trying to diet. However, I would more likely tend to think that those folk are few & far between.

Personally, I agree that doing so just looks so sooooo unappealing to me.

Nothing to get in a Twitter over for PROFESSIONAL nsg.

Puhleeze!

[SmilesHeal101]

Hello,

I chew gum at work for my "nerves" if I need to meet with a patient I remove it. It can look unprofessional if chewing gum and talking with a patient; even over the phone. But I love chewing gum; especially if I am trying to avoid overeating.

[nursel56]

I don't think we should have a strictly hard and fast rule about reviving old threads. Some of them are real of gems of entertainment, and information. I was a little disappointed this is not the 2010 thread that included the warning that gum-chewing nurses run the risk of leaning over their patient and having their gum fall out of their mouth presumably onto their patient's abdomen, followed by the drooling of excess saliva onto same.