mountainspirit80

Hi, My son is a tattoo artist, he has done 3 tattoos on me. They are rather large on both my upper arms. sometimes the bottoms of the tattoos peek out from under my scrubs. It has good and bad results. If a patient sees the end sticking out it often breaks the ice, and they start to talk about what the tattoo means and thier opinions and such. Of course, the start of conversation often leads to other more important discussions and they often feel at ease talking to me because they feel Im "down to earth". However, as far as the hospital, it all depends on where you work, I wouldn't flaunt them and I try to keep them covered as much as possible, but I will show them to who ever ask about them, and tell them the reason why I have them. I have not had anyone complain ever. Hopefully you wont either. Actually, its other nurses who have given me the most problems, sometimes nurses can be very blunt and hurtful. Ive learned to have "thick skin" when it comes to other nurses opinion. I just tell them they are allowed to have their own opinion. With some its a topic I rather keep to myself :offtopic:

I was working on an orthopedic floor for a long time. I thought I had heard every wierd request on the call bell. but, one day the nurse's were at desk having a discussion when the call bell went off. the nurse's aid answered it and accidently hit the intercom button, when the patient on the other side started yelling "my finger is stuck in my butt". we all thought we heard wrong but she yelled it again. of course, when we went to check on her she indeed had her hand under her backside, aparently she was scratching her behind and her hand fell asleep. we repositioned her and everything was OK, the circulation came back to her hand and the floor had a good laugh too......