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?

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      Ok to go without the T shirt
    • 1018
      The T shirt should be required
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      I'm a male voter
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      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?

Specializes in midwifery, NICU.

Can I just say.., nature intended men to be hairy!

!(And I like it .. :devil:..........!)

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Can I just say.., nature intended men to be hairy!

!(And I like it .. :devil:..........!)

We love you for saying that. Thanks.

Some of us gents cannot pull of the neutral gender metrosexual look, nor do we want to. And since when was chest hair so offensive or unprofessional? If it were required to cover up 100%, then why are the neck holes in scrubs so large? When did we become prudes people? Everyone walking around has genitals and body hair. Sorry to shock and awe here, but we are nurses.

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Specializes in midwifery, NICU.
We love you for saying that. Thanks.

Some of us gents cannot pull of the neutral gender metrosexual look, nor do we want to. And since when was chest hair so offensive or unprofessional? If it were required to cover up 100%, then why are the neck holes in scrubs so large? When did we become prudes people? Everyone walking around has genitals and body hair. Sorry to shock and awe here, but we are nurses.

:yeah::yeah::yeah:...And I'm a GIRL and I agree totally!!!

(dude looks like a lady!!!........................YUK!!!!!!!!!)

Weyhey Hairy Man!!!!:smokin::bow::devil:

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Specializes in PACU.
I would like to say thank god I don't have chest hair. It's GROSS. Any medical professional that has it visible should be required to cover it up. Or they could just get it waxed off... i think that would be the better option. :wink2:

How on earth is chest hair gross? It is exactly the same as hair on arms and elsewhere. Should I have to shave my arms or wear long sleeve shirts, too? Should I have to shave my head or wear a nursing cap? Maybe I should just cut off my testicles so that I don't produce so much testosterone. Quite frankly, I see all of this chest hair hate as a sign of the current trend of hatred of men and masculinity, and the desire to pacify men until they are exactly like women with memberes attached. All mammals have hair. Get used to it.

Oh, and you might grow chest hair yet. You're possibly not done with puberty if your profile age is correct.

By the way, if chest hair grosses you out, you might want to rethink a career in nursing. Chest hair, or pubic hair, will be the least of your concerns when you're up to your elbows in fecal matter.

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My boyfriend is an RN as well as I and with or without chest hair, a tshirt underneath a scrub top looks better from a professional standpoint. Most hospitals require a health care provider to cover up a tatoo to make the staff member more professional. This in my mind is almost the same idea.

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I would like to say thank god I don't have chest hair. It's GROSS. Any medical professional that has it visible should be required to cover it up. Or they could just get it waxed off... i think that would be the better option. :wink2:

Haha, give yourself another 15 years. My hubby and I started dating when we were 16....just a small area of thin chest hair at that time. Now at 37 he is a hairy beast on his chest and abdomen. I'm guessing male chest hair just continues to expand its territory as one grow older! Watch out! You might be proactive and search for a waxer now!

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

I thought of this thread yesterday when I got a copy of a nursing magazine - with a picture of an OR nurse all gowned/masked etc...and a surgeon in scrubs with lots of chest hair poking out. You know what? It's not that big a deal. He's a man. Men grow hair on their chests, some more than others. So what?

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Haha, that is a good story. Its not the chest hair I am worried about for me or anyone outside of the hospital, that is up to him, hes a guy afterall. But inside of the hospital, i feel that it disrupts the look of professionalism thats all. Just like too much makeup or crazy colored scrubs or tatoos.

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In the thread about wearing skirts, that I believe also specified working in the OR, people said that the reason quoted in the rules about not wearing skirts was 'lady partsl fallout'

I think that chest hairs falling out onto a sterile surface is a lot more likely than anything falling from someone's lady parts, don't you?

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It's ok either way, but looks a lot neater with T shirt, I think.

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Specializes in ER,ICU,L+D,OR.

This has been so funny. Personally I love hairy guys. Look at Tom Selleck

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But inside of the hospital, i feel that it disrupts the look of professionalism thats all. Just like too much makeup or crazy colored scrubs or tatoos.

I really resent this idea...men don't wake up in the morning and decide to put on their chest hair to buck the establishment. We don't comb it in crazy styles in order to stand out. It is who we are...it makes us no more or less professional. I'm not going to dress differently in order to cover a part of my body that you find "unprofessional" and I'm not going to expect you to shave your legs in order to look professional either. That....would be shallow.

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