Random question: Would you wear a $300 watch to work

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I have been working m/s for almost 2 weeks and have noticed that so many of the nurses I work with wear either the Micheal Kors watches or coach watches. You wonder how I get close enough to notice this, but if you know the watches they are unmistakeable. I also notice that most of them wear their ginormous wedding rocks and since I am a newbie fresh out of nursing school, of course I leave my rock at home, but I was just wondering and polling you random nurses if you would risk wearing a very expensive timepiece or your wedding rings to work all day? Being so new, to me it screams INFECTION!!! lol. I wear my little old nursing school watch and feel so plain next to all the bling on the floor....

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

Yes. My watch cleans up well with alcohol swabs.

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Specializes in FNP, ONP.

$300 is not an expensive watch, I'd say that's rather inexpensive. Coach and Michael Kors are wanna be brands for posers. Would I wear a Patek to work if I were employed as a floor nurse? No.

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Specializes in High-risk OB.

To me, $300 is expensive. I have a $250 Citizen watch but I would never wear it to work. I wear a cheaper watch with a second hand that works just as well as a Michael Kors or Coach watch. Plus, it lights up. ;)

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Lol... the day $300 isn't expensive to me for a watch, I will smile :D

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.
$300 is not an expensive watch, I'd say that's rather inexpensive. Coach and Michael Kors are wanna be brands for posers. Would I wear a Patek to work if I were employed as a floor nurse? No.

I'd like to see a floor nurse who's wearing a Patek. And then I would wonder why the hell s/he is working.

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Specializes in Gerontology.

$300 for a watch!!?

OMG!

I think that is a lot of money.

I wear a $20 watch I bought at the drug store. Keeps perfect time, is waterproof and easy to take off/on for when I am showering pts.

I can't imagine paying that much for a work watch. A dress up watch maybe, but not a work watch!

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I wouldn't even pay $300 for a watch, so I guess the answer is no.

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

I only own one watch, and I wear it all the time.

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I don't wear any accessories. No watch, no jewelry, I don't even carry my own stethoscope. I just find it gross. Just my scrubs and me, I save the fabulousness for my days off.

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Specializes in retired LTC.

Any jewelry, expensive or not, be it necklace, watch, ring, earring, etc, you wear at your own risk. Lost, stolen or broken - your loss. Even if a pt , adult or kidder, is responsible - your loss.

Moral of story - if it's worth something to you, don't wear it to work!

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Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.
$300 is not an expensive watch, I'd say that's rather inexpensive. Coach and Michael Kors are wanna be brands for posers. Would I wear a Patek to work if I were employed as a floor nurse? No.

Compare to a Swiss watch...sure. But I'm willing to bet that to most floor nurses, three hundered dollars for a watch is expensive.

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