Male Chest Hair and Scrub Tops

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  1. Should a male nurse with chesthair wearing a scrub top be required to wear a T shirt?

    • 822
      Ok to go without the T shirt
    • 1018
      The T shirt should be required
    • 653
      I'm a male voter
    • 1010
      I'm a female voter

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Should a male nurse wearing a scrub top and has chest hair be required to wear a T shirt underneath in order to cover up the chest hair?

Wax it.

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Specializes in Breast Cancer, Arterial, General Surgery.
OMG! What next....leave the guys alone...Im a female and I dont really care, isnt there something better to vote on???????

:yeahthat:Totally agree.

I love chest hair so I don't have a problem with it.

My main concern though is that it can get hot in hospitals, is this a good idea to be adding clothes?

Wax it.

OUCH!

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Specializes in ED, Critical Care, Peds & Nursery.

this is the funniest thing i have read in a long time that is actually related to nursing!!!!!!! what is worse i totally have been getting visuals in my head of chest hair hanging out of scrub tops! [ugh] i personally am not into hairy chests and prefer to see a t-shirt taming the fur :)

[color=#483d8b]oh and thanks for teaching me a new term: manscaping....are you serious? lol

[color=#483d8b]~kelrn24

[color=#483d8b]life is better at the beach!

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:innerconfMake 'em shave their head too! Better yet, wax their chest!

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

I wear an undershirt due to my chest hair and for my personal comfort. I personally think it looks better.

Should we be required to? Well, I guess so, if we can require some of the ladies to shave their mustaches. Just as they can't help that we can't help our chest hair.

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Specializes in Neonatal ICU (Cardiothoracic).

Should we be required to? Well, I guess so, if we can require some of the ladies to shave their mustaches. Just as they can't help that we can't help our chest hair.

Exactly..... or the 2" long hair coming out of their chin mole....;)

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*erm* i think it looks cleaner and more professional if men with chest hairs wear t-shirts under scrub suits. it could give a lil more protection too from the secretions that happened to land on the scrub tops

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Specializes in ED, Critical Care, Peds & Nursery.

it seems the men balk at being 'made' to wear an undershirt or mandated regarding their uniforms, but they forget that women have been mandated for years to wear certain things or more correctly not wear certain items with uniforms. how about nursing caps? have you ever seen a man wear one? i have seen women nurses be sent home for not wearing underwear (yes, it's true) or wearing inappropriate garments underneath white scrubs, shirts too low cut so that cleavage shows....so i am not sure it is much different. i don't think exposing cleavage inparticular is appropriate by nurses. it just asks for trouble not too mention the respect factor for the profession...

~kelrn24

whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse. ~gary veale

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

Well I can safely safe I always wear underwear, white underwear at that when I wear white pants.

I've also seen co-workers wear multicolored undies with white pants, can't help but to look when theres a giant cupcake on their butt!

To each there own tho.

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Specializes in Burnout & Resiliency Coaching for Nurses.

We have an older doc that is hairy and it is always showing through the top of his scrubs, tho I dunno how I feel about requiring t-shirts it is NOT ATTRACTIVE (esp since he is an older gentleman). If I had a hairy chest I would make more efforts to cover it up. Leave it for the soaps!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, ED.

+1 for the t shirt...

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it seems the men balk at being 'made' to wear an undershirt or mandated regarding their uniforms, but they forget that women have been mandated for years to wear certain things or more correctly not wear certain items with uniforms. how about nursing caps? have you ever seen a man wear one? i have seen women nurses be sent home for not wearing underwear (yes, it's true) or wearing inappropriate garments underneath white scrubs, shirts too low cut so that cleavage shows....so i am not sure it is much different. i don't think exposing cleavage inparticular is appropriate by nurses. it just asks for trouble not too mention the respect factor for the profession...

~kelrn24

whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse. ~gary veale

while i do wear t-shirts under my scrubs, it should be by choice.

men don't wear nursing caps because we wouldn't put up with that nonsense. men also don't wear red underwear under white scrubs. a nurse, no a person, that doesn't wear underwear to work is just nasty. come on, be a little realistic.

of course, a workplace can set whatever dress code it likes, but if i have to cover my chest hair, you better cover your mustache!

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