Do you wear rings to work?

Ruby Vee, BSN · Apr 3, 2007

i wear my wedding ring -- i never take it off. my husband designed it and a former patient of his, a jewelry designer made it for us. it's a wide gold band with the stone set in -- it doesn't stick up and is totally smooth so it won't scratch a patient.

queenjean · Apr 3, 2007

The hand sanitizer that we use at work has a reputation for eating away at rings. My silver earrings have two spots of black where I touch them all the time (nervous habit), from the hand sanitizer.

I have a simple white gold band that I am not interested in offering up to the chemicals (not to mention the germs) that continually assault it at work.

We are, however, allowed to wear a wedding band or simple jewelery if we choose. Most of us don't, though, due to lost bands or ruined rings.

Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP · Apr 3, 2007

I think we are allowed to wear wedding bands but a lot of people wear a lot more. Don't like that.

I sometimes wear my wedding band, if I remember or if I'm not in the nursery. We're not allowed to wear anything in the nursery.

suziesunshine · Apr 3, 2007

Hi Everybody
I will be starting nursing school this September :monkeydance: and wondering if most nurses wear rings to work. Mainly wedding rings. I would think that with the constant putting on and taking off latex gloves, hand washing etc that wearing rings would be cumbersome and worrisome that the rings/s might come off in the gloves.
What do you do?

Well, I think it's ok to wear your wedding ring but I wouldn't advise wearing an engagement ring. They can tear gloves, harbor microorganisms and get dirty. I just wear a plain wedding ring.

nuangel1, BSN, RN · Apr 3, 2007

i don't wear any rings at work.

tntrn, ASN, RN · Apr 3, 2007

I wear my wedding band and my engagement ring. The latter, although big enough but not huge, has never torn a glove in 30 years. There are times when I don't wear the diamond, but nobody is going to tell me to give up my wedding band. It is as much a religious symbol to me as headscarves or other head coverings are to those of other religions.

OgopogoLPN, LPN, RN · Apr 3, 2007

Well, I think it's ok to wear your wedding ring but I wouldn't advise wearing an engagement ring. They can tear gloves, harbor microorganisms and get dirty. I just wear a plain wedding ring.

My rings are saudered together and are a set. The diamonds are not terribly high or blingy, but I wouldn't want to risk losing the set and I didn't even think about microscopic germs getting in or hand sanitizer being hard on the gold/diamonds/etc.

incublissRN, BSN, RN · Apr 3, 2007

I wear my engagement ring to work. It means so much to me and I hate to be without it! It protrudes but I haven't had any problems with it except for the hand sanitizer eating away at the white gold. I would hate to wear it on a chain in case a crazy patient got a hold of it. When I get married in October (yay! ) I think I will just wear my wedding band to work.

LPNJessi · Apr 3, 2007

I wear my wedding and engagement rings to work. My husband got me rings that don't portrude. If I have to wear gloves I take the rings off and put them in my pocket. I wash my hands frequently. I never thought about handsanitizer affecting my rings.

lsyorke, RN · Apr 3, 2007

No rings, bracelets or watches.

I would go NUTS without my watch!!!

allnurses Guide · Apr 3, 2007

I don't wear rings, bracelets or watches either.

I'm afraid I'll lose my rings. I don't like watches on my wrist - something about it bugs me. I also don't wear bracelets for the same reason.

steph

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Apr 4, 2007

Plain band (not the original, original will never go to work), pinned on the left side of my scrub top, pin going through my bra strap (so that i can't take my top off without getting the ring first).