Poll: Do you wear your wedding band to work...?

[Nola009]

...especially those of you in direct patient care? To the married lady nurses~ Do you wear your original band AND engagement ring to work??

[SoldierNurse22, BSN, RN]

I only wear my wedding band. My diamonds stay at home.

[annie.rn]

I bought an inexpensive silver band to wear. I hate to say it, but I've grown to like it more than my wedding set. Shhh... don't tell my husband ;-)

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

Even with a wedding band, germs linger underneath. And in order to wash up well, you have to take off your ring . . and that makes me scared I'd lose it.

I'm grateful I'm just not a fan of jewelry.

Not a shoe fanatic either.

I don't fit well in any of the "female" stereotypes.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

I wear mine. My husband designed my wedding ring (no engagement ring since we couldn' afford it a the time) so that the single stone sits down inside the band -- no risk of tearing gloves or scratching patients. Our priest blessed our rings when he blessed our marriage, so both DH and I wear our rings at all times, although he does take his off to work on our boat's engine. And I've taken mine off when I've had surgery -- DH wears it on a chain around his neck until I can safely wear it again. I asked once if he'd take his ring off a year or two after I died, if I died first. He said he intended to be buried with it on.

[applesxoranges, BSN, RN]

I wouldn't wear a real wedding ring to work unless it was super plain.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

I'm thinking there's a generational divide here. I don't remember the concern about wedding bands until about 10-15 years ago.

[Vwpenn]

I wear my band which is plain and simple. When I get home I take it off and scrub my hands profusely along with ring. I feel naked without it.

[ixchel]

I think I lost my wedding band degloving.

[studentnursemon86]

I wear my wedding band (it's a channel set and pretty flat), but not my engagement ring. The gloves can damage the prongs that hold the diamonds in. Also, mine has Victorian etching which can harbor bacteria.

Many of my coworkers wear both, with big center stones, but I wouldn't recommend that.

[verene, MSN]

I wear my wedding band. It's smooth, simple, medical grade titanium. I've used the colored gel and black-light to check hand-washing, and on those occasions at least both the ring and the skin under and around it has been cleaned thoroughly. I'd reconsider if I was a working OR or something like that, but for now I'm a CNA working in psych, so the risk of infecting some one via my ring is fairly low.

[dexm]

I used to not wear it, but after getting hit on at work a couple of times I bought a simple, thin, white gold band to wear to avoid those awkward conversations. Also, the thought of wearing my original band and engagement ring to work grosses me out…my hands are too close to poop too often to wear that.

[86toronado, BSN, RN]

I wear mine, but it's just a plain silver band, no crevices or anything to get stuff caught in. And when I wash/sanitize, I routinely push the soap/sanitizer onto/around/under it. Most of my married co-workers wear their big diamond solitaires to work, though.