Guys, do you wear your wedding band to work?

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For those of you who wear your wedding band, do you wear it to work? I don't want to have to be constantly taking it off to clean it.

I'm thinking I will probably just wear it outside of work. What do you do?

I wear mine. I wash my hands. Don't see a problem with it.

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Specializes in critical care, med/surg.

The alcohol cleansers we use nowadays probably keep the germs to a minimum. Wear your wedding ring...unless of course...

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As a single male, I've always considered rings (or any jewelry) to be too much of a hassle to wear -- maybe that would change if I had a ball and chain giving me hell for it though! :icon_roll

Mike

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I hope to be accepted into a ABSN program in March.

I lost my wedding ring years ago and went back to wearing a family heirloom that I had been wearing since I was 16. I took it off whenever I performed a procedure on a patient when I was a hospital corpsman in the USN.

The other day I mentioned to my wife that I'd like a very simple wedding band because I wanted to wear one and I'd keep it on a chain around my neck when in the hospital.

She asked why me why I wanted to bother with a band because she's not worried about it.

Gotta love that lady! :bow::bow::bow:

So I will probably skip the new wedding band and skip wearing a ring too (30 years married this Aug).

Mark

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I have a princess shaped (square) wedding ring that sits really high. I start nursing school in 5 weeks and I am thinking of just buying an inexpensive diamond band to wear instead while in school/clinicals. I have been married for 4 1/2 years and I'd feel naked without something! (Plus, i'm proud to be married to my partner!).

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I wear mine at work... but remove it in bars.

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Specializes in Med Surg.

I got out of the habit of wearing mine at work years ago. When I was working in the field on a project it was just too dangerous. I knew of three incidents in our company where a worker lost their ring finger due to a wedding band. By the time I moved into the office, I just never thought about it any more.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

I'm married, and neither one of us wears our rings to work for safety reasons (he works with heavy machinery, I work with psych patients that have Hep C and/or HIV).

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Specializes in ER, ICU.

I used to, when I wore one at all. Mine was smooth gold that cleaned very easily.

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Specializes in CVICU/SICU.

I don't, mine came off inside a glove once. It now resides in a jewelry box (with my wife's). My spouse is employed at the same facility and most, if not all, of my co-workers have met her :nurse:.

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Specializes in Med/Surg Tele/Oncology.

I wear mine, and people still ask that silly question "are you married?" and some of the time they follow that up with "to a woman?"

The only thing that irritates me is due to the handwashing all the time is the white ring of skin after I take it off. otherwise I just wear it and laugh when they try to figure out if I am married or not.

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A little off subject, but a funny story. I stopped wearing my ring when I gained over 100 lbs. (In less than a year) due to cancer treatments and the fact that I stopped weightlifting but continued to eat like I was still burning all those calories. It REALLY bothered my wife that I wasn't wearing my ring. (what, she thought I was so sexy with my +100 lbs I'd be out picking up chicks?) ANYway, I got the ring resized and things were calm around the house again... not the end of the story.

Just a month after resizing the thing, my cancer got better enough that I started exercising again, that and went on an awesome weight loss program. Lost all that weight I gained in less than half a year. That ring would fall off my finger every chance it got, so we went and resized it back down.... still not end of story.

My wife went through a pregnancy where I did a bit of "sympathy" gaining. Then I went through CNA classes where I gained a few more pounds and I'll be starting an RN program at the college this summer where I'll probably gain a few more... I'm thinking about getting a wedding ring that's got an elastic band...:idea:

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