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??

[flying_ace2]

I'm getting married Oct. 3 and got two wedding bands - the one with the stones, and a plain white gold band to wear to work. I work in the OR, so if I'm circulating I can wear the band. If I'm scrubbing however, I can't wear any jewelry. So it depends on the situation! :) As for my engagement ring, I absolutely do NOT wear it at work - don't want to risk getting somebody's funk in it! :)

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

I think I lost my wedding band degloving.

Ouch! That sounds painful!

[Katie71275]

No but I also don't wear it anyway. Im.not a jewelry person.

[Horseshoe, BSN, RN]

I do, but only because I cannot get it off! I think I will bite the bullet and go get it cut off and re-sized...

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

The only time my wedding band comes off is during pregnancy when my fingers swell. Then I wear it on a chain around my neck. I don't wear my engagement ring though, because I have torn gloves on it AND scratched my kids with it.

[ixchel]

Ouch! That sounds painful!

The thing is - I'm not entirely certain whether it happened or not. My fingers swell and shrink a lot with change in temperature. When it's cold (which, my facility seems to enjoy growing icicles on its doors), my ring fits pretty loosely. I haven't seen it in weeks. It's the only guess I've got. I had a cheap little Mickey Mouse ring come off that way as I actually was paying attention and it made me realize it's very possible my wedding band came off, too, while I wasn't paying attention.

[macawake, MSN]

The thing is - I'm not entirely certain whether it happened or not. My fingers swell and shrink a lot with change in temperature. When it's cold (which, my facility seems to enjoy growing icicles on its doors), my ring fits pretty loosely. I haven't seen it in weeks. It's the only guess I've got. I had a cheap little Mickey Mouse ring come off that way as I actually was paying attention and it made me realize it's very possible my wedding band came off, too, while I wasn't paying attention.

ixchel, I think that Ruby Vee made a tongue-in-cheek reference to a degloving injury Caused by trauma, normally requires surgical repair like revascularization or replantation. It was actually the initial image in my head too, when I first saw your post. I'm glad I'm no longer working in the ER

I'm sorry you lost your ring!

[ixchel]

ixchel, I think that Ruby Vee made a tongue-in-cheek reference to a degloving injury Caused by trauma, normally requires surgical repair like revascularization or replantation. It was actually the initial image in my head too, when I first saw your post. I'm glad I'm no longer working in the ER

I'm sorry you lost your ring!

Oh, my that sounds horrifying. On second thought, maybe my lost ring is not quite so bad.......

[Bezoars]

I wear my wedding set. I lose everything, so if I was always taking it off and putting it back on, I would lose it for sure. The only time I take it off is if I know I'm working in NICU... for them, I keep it off. Otherwise, I'm always gloved when I touch patients, so....

[dudette10, MSN, RN]

Just my plain band. Before I became a nurse, I wore the engagement ring at all times, too. I never take my plain band off except when I have had surgery at the insistence of the anesthesiologist for good reason. I gave it to my husband, and he insisted on putting it back on me when it was ok to do so.

ETA: Great, now this thread has a ****-ton of engagement ring ads!

[4boysmama]

I didn't respond to the poll bcause my answer isn't really there...I don't wear my wedding rings to work, because I don't want them to get gross/lose stones/just..ick. But I don't want to not wear a band, either - so I have a cheap-o ring from walmart that I wear for work.