Do you wear rings?

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I'm starting an ADN program this Fall and I do not want to wear my wedding rings to clinical. Don't want to risk losing a diamond or having it rip open a glove (or getting caught in a glove and accidentally thrown away). Not to mention the bacteria it may harbor.

If you don't wear your rings, what do you do with them during clinical??

I have to ask-do you watch Nurse Jackie?

Nope, just ER and Greys Anatomy :-)

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Specializes in Hospice / Ambulatory Clinic.
Should paranoid people really own expensive jewelry? How about they keep it in a safe deposit box and just carry a picture of it in their wallet? :lol2:

As a guy, when I see a woman wearing a big rock on her finger as she gets into or out of her 6 yr old Toyota I don't think, Wow! Her (whatever) must really love her. I normally think, I wonder what he did that he is trying to make up for, or, who is she desperately trying to impress? It is even better if she has a Coach bag and Gucci sunglasses.

Wait I drive a 8yo Toyota LOL. That think is like a tank has NEVER broken down hence I keep it.

But it could be some loved her past tense and she just kept the ring. Funny Toyota ring story. I knew someone that spent a lot of money to buy herself a fancy engagement ring. Yes for herself. She drove a 20 yo Toyota with spinning rims. Oh yeah and she couldn't afford a bed.

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery.

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Ohhhh I was wondering because I do and a recent episode a nurse on their gets engaged and she takes her gloves of and unknowingly her new ring and throws it in the trash. :)

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We aren't allowed to wear rings with stones of any kind in clinicals. I bought a tungsten carbide ring which is supposed to be super durable. I like that it has a pattern with some personality, but has no groves or anything to trap nastiness.

http://www.titaniumkay.com/KAYLORD-Tungsten-Carbide-Laser-Engraved-Celtic-Knot-Ring-P103590.html

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ohhhh i was wondering because i do and a recent episode a nurse on their gets engaged and she takes her gloves of and unknowingly her new ring and throws it in the trash. :)

​i know someone who did that -- amazingly, her husband married her anyway.

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​i know someone who did that -- amazingly, her husband married her anyway.

this is precisely why the goddess gave us insurance. any valuable jewelry can be listed as a rider on your homeowner's or renter's insurance. my sister-in-law learned this when she lost her diamond a few years ago. she mentioned it at a family dinner, and the family insurance man, my dad, said that when he wrote their homeowner's he had that rider on it. she had a new diamond in a week.

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When I first got engaged, I did wear my ring to work (the girls all wanted to see it). I totally forgot to take it off before starting work. Like many others, in a rush I tore off my gloves and threw them in the trash. I went on about my business and didn't notice the missing ring because I normally didn't wear rings to work. It was a fellow CNA who alerted me to my missing ring. And it was in that second I had a flash in my head of taking off my gloves and remembered it felt like it snagged on something about an hour before. Quite a sight it was seeing myself and several others going through the trash bags and checking out each and every glove (EWWW!) Luckily we did find it. I never wore my ring to work again.

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ask if you can wear a ring wrapper over your rings...i do, it's like $5 and i like it so the skeevy old men patients know that i'm engaged lol

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Specializes in Cardio-Pulmonary; Med-Surg; Private Duty.
ask if you can wear a ring wrapper over your rings...i do, it's like $5 and i like it so the skeevy old men patients know that i'm engaged lol

That seems even worse than wearing a ring... how do you disinfect your hands with that wrapped around your finger? Seems like germs would get wedged between the band and your finger...???

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Nope, I leave them at home. Some girls went out and bought plain gold bands to put on instead of their raised engagement rings, but I'm just going without. I can make it a day a week without the entire world knowing I'm married. ;)

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When I had my diamond I'd leave it at home. The ring broke, so I just wear my band now.

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