pre-nursing student needs help with tattooed nurse survey!!

[perseverance72006]

Hello all!

I have posted a few times here on this board and I read the digests diligently. Let me make this as short and concise as possible.

I am in a psychology class (doing nursing pre-requisites!) I have to do a survey for my final paper. I will be going around to people having them fill out a survey about whether or not they would perceive a heavily tattooed nurse as being unprofessional.

I would present to one group of people a picture of a nurse with very visible tattoos, wearing scrubs, badge of some sort. It will be evident she is a nurse. Her hair will be neat, her scrubs will be clean and pressed, she will look nice and she will have very visible tattoos.

The list of questions they would answer will range from "strongly disagree to strongly agree." The questions are Common stereotypes and not necessarily at all valid but to represent what a large number of people seem to think. (based on my own personal experience as a heavily tattooed woman)

Male____ female____

High School/GED___ Certification___ Associates Degree___ Bachelors Degree____

Masters___ PHD___

This nurse is dressed professionally.

I believe this nurse is competent in her field.

I would be concerned this nurse would steal my personal belongings.

I would be as comfortable as possible with this nurse administering an IV or an injection on me.

This nurse's appearance conflicts with my religious beliefs.

This nurse may have Hepatitis C.

This nurse would listen to my concerns.

This nurse has excellent bedside manner.

I would feel comfortable with this nurse changing my bedpan and performing personal care for me.

This nurse would advocate my needs for me and help me receive proper care.

I will then have a picture of a clean and neat nurse with no visible tattoos and the same exact questions will be presented. This will be my control group.

Since I'm sure plenty of you have figured out why exactly I'm posting this here, I do not have a picture of a tattooed nurse. I do not know any tattooed people besides myself and I can't go around expecting honest answers if I'm standing right in front of them. I did order some of those Halloween fake tattoo sleeve things but I dread the way they're going to look, but will use them if I have to. I google constantly trying to find tattooed nurses, and I come up with risqué stuff that is obviously not what I'm looking for. I do not know how to use photoshop, sadly, or problem would've been solved.

If there are any tattooed nurses here that would be so extraordinarily kind as to help out a pre-nursing student by sending me a picture of yourself? My intent is listed above, there will be no harm done. I intend to fully keep my tattoos under wraps when I obtain my licensure. I rarely show them in public anymore anyway! So I understand that you probably wouldn't even show yours at work.

But if anyone has any tattoos and wants to have a picture of yourself taken in scrubs; Please let me know. I just need a picture preferably of a tattooed female nurse. Because I am a woman and I wanted to my research around that.

Thank you enormously.

Any feedback involving the survey is also welcomed. I take any and all and am not afraid of criticism! I will also be glad to post the end results and the final paper once it has been completed.

Sincerely,

Sarah

[perseverance72006]

my suggestions below:

this nurse is dressed professionally.

this nurse looks like a professional

i believe this nurse is competent in her field.

this nurse is competent.

i would be concerned this nurse would steal my personal belongings.

this nurse is trustworthy.

i would be as comfortable as possible with this nurse administering an iv or an injection on me.

i would be comfortable allowing this nurse to administer injections or insert an iv on me.

this nurse's appearance conflicts with my religious beliefs.

this nurse shares my values.

this nurse may have hepatitis c.

this nurse might have hepatitis or hiv.

this nurse would listen to my concerns.

this nurse is a good listener.

this nurse has excellent bedside manner.

i would feel comfortable with this nurse changing my bedpan and performing personal care for me.

i would be comfortable having this nurse perform personal care for me.

this nurse would advocate my needs for me and help me receive proper care.

this nurse would advocate for me.

just suggestions. if you want my thinking behind these just email me. good luck with your paper.

thank you! yes i would like further input. i was unsure of the wording on my questions, i didnt want to be leading one way or the other. i did run a few by my instructor and she said they were good. i cant see an email button? would u contact me? thank you.

[perseverance72006]

I sure wish I were in contact with one of nursing school classmates. She was heavily tatooed and was also a tatoo artist prior to nursing school. In fact she tattooed alot of our classmates. She did keep them covered but she also wore long sleeves toclinicals. I had 2 but are in places that can be covered.

thank you, do u have any idea if she landed a job after clinicals?

my nursing advisor didnt look at my sideways or give me any words of warning or anything, so it seems like there are ways around it.