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....

Specializes in Trauma-Surgical, Case Management, Clinic.
Years ago, I was wearing a ring I treasured to work. Part way through the shift, I noticed it was gone. I was frantic. The ring doesn't have a lot of monetary value, but it's worth millions in sentimental meaning. Bless my co-workers...they went through the trash (including biohazard and chemo trash). My manager even went down to the dock where the trucks take trash that's been packed up. The boxes for that day had been taken to the refuse station by the time she got there.

I was desolate. When I got home, I was cleaning out my purse, and lo and behold! My ring was at the bottom of my purse. You can be sure I never wore rings to work after that.

Did you tell your co-workers and manager that you found it?

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I wear cheap fob watches on the pocket of my scrub top -- they usually make it about 4 months before getting destroyed somehow. The only other jewelry I wear at work is $5 stud earrings from the cheap teenager accessory store (because they get knocked out of my ears sometimes when I take my stethoscope off my neck). And there's a religious medallion in my pocket.

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Specializes in Public Health, Women's Health.
I wear cheap fob watches on the pocket of my scrub top -- they usually make it about 4 months before getting destroyed somehow. The only other jewelry I wear at work is $5 stud earrings from the cheap teenager accessory store (because they get knocked out of my ears sometimes when I take my stethoscope off my neck). And there's a religious medallion in my pocket.

I wish I could wear cheap studs, but my ear lobes end up swollen.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
I have a higher priced bangle type Movado I wear daily, but not at work. It has no second hand and its not waterproof. Would I wear it to work if it did have a second hand and was waterproof, probably not. I also leave my 'bling' engagement ring at home and only wear it when I'm not at work.

For me its a plain gold band and some cheap watch I bought at Target.

I really don't care who's wearing what brand/priced watch or ring. If they lose it or ruin it, its on them while mine are sitting safely at home.

Safe at home, huh? I used to have my grandmother's engagement ring, but I didn't wear it to work. I left it safe at home, and that's where it was when someone broke into my home and dumped the contents of my jewelry box into my beautiful red Dooney bag (also "too good" to take to work) and made off with it.

I've known of very few people who've lost engagement rings or other jewelry at work -- almost exactly the same number of people I know who've lost similarly expensive or sentimental items to burglers or muggers.

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Fiona59 mentioned fob watches, I can't find any masculine style fob watches that I like. The closest I got was searching on amazon for carabiner watches but on most of them the watch isn't oriented so that you can read it by looking down at your chest.

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Pay $300 for a watch? Does it tell a different time then the $10 watch??

LOL. I sure hope so for that price.

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Specializes in Med-Surg Nursing.
My current facility doesn't allow watches, which I think is a good rule. But after trying to pick poop out of various crevices in my watch when I was allowed to wear them, I certainly wouldn't wear a watch at work that wasn't truly disposable.

The day my facility outlaws watches is the day I QUIT nursing! Clocks in the rooms frequently have dead batteries or no clocks at all because a patient stole it! I feel NAKED without a watch! I need a watch to time my IV pushes as I'm giving them! I only wear waterproof Timex watches that cost me $20 at Walmart. I don't replace batteries, I just toss them and buy a new one.

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Specializes in Med-Surg Nursing.
Eh, I get wicked bored of wearing scrubs all day. So I need to bling it up a bit...

Did Chanel's Fall 2013 Scrub line debut yet? lol:roflmao:

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Hubby bought me a beautiful diamond-encrusted Bolova watch for our 1st anniversary--he even made sure it had a second hand for me to wear to work. It was so hard trying not to crush his spirit when I said I'd never wear it to work. I've got a $7 watch from Target that I wear to work. If it gets too gross I can just get a new one. I work with someone who doesn't even wear a watch; she uses a digital timer for 30 seconds to check a pulse.

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Specializes in Cath lab, acute, community.

I only own one watch, and unfortunately it is an expensive watch. I also work in a cath lab, which means a lot of blood on some days. It all cleans up quite nicely with a chlorhex or alcohol swab! I take it off when scrubbing due to infection reasons.

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I wear a Tag Heuer watch that my husband bought for me. Because I like it.

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