Clipping nails at nurse's station

[BillieP]

I live in Alabama and several nurse's where I work clip their nails at the nurse's station and I find that to be horribly disgusting. Has anyone else had coworkers who do this? Does it bother you all or am I just being fussy?

[jdub6]

This reminds me...We once had a tech with dreads who would take a pitcher of water to the desk and a bottle of shampoo and dip the dreads in one at a time, lather them up and rinse, then on to the next. No one was really sure how to even approach him about it because, really?

Eventually he was fired for "unrelated" reasons but I always figured the hair washing on duty didn't help. While quickly fixing a nail broken in the line of duty is probably necessary at times, anything more should not be done in public and especially not anywhere close to pt care areas in my opinion.

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

This reminds me...We once had a tech with dreads who would take a pitcher of water to the desk and a bottle of shampoo and dip the dreads in one at a time, lather them up and rinse, then on to the next. No one was really sure how to even approach him about it because, really?

Eventually he was fired for "unrelated" reasons but I always figured the hair washing on duty didn't help. While quickly fixing a nail broken in the line of duty is probably necessary at times, anything more should not be done in public and especially not anywhere close to pt care areas in my opinion.

That is an extreme example of management with absolutely zero backbone. That activity would go unchecked/without comment by my manager for approximately 0.000001 seconds.