This topic is plain and simple. How do you guys feel about nurses with tattoos? I'm at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to my age and what I chose as my career and all the way through school I either had to cover up or give a long explanation as to why I have it. Most of the older nurses always came at me with the same "It's not professional stuff -_-" Now that I work I don't get questioned but sometimes I feel the stare of either some of the people I'm working with or Pt's. I really love tattoos and I also really love nursing and I think that the whole super conservatives just make you feel that since you have tattoos you are not up-to-par. Thoughts anyone?
The problem with using the Confederate flag as an example is that it symbolizes one thing to the majority of Americans: the time when the south wanted to break with this country so they could own other people.
Where a bald man is not just symbolizing a skin head.
He can be a balding guy, a skin head, a chemo patient, a fashion statement, a Mr. Clean fetishist, a Charlie Brown fan, an LL Cool J interpreter, Moby...
You see my point? What you find offensive, I and others might not. You have one point of view for the confederate flag and others might have a different one. Very few objected to the "Dukes of Hazard" TV show with the Confederate flag painted on the car. But, what might be very appropriate and accepted in one area might not be in another. What some consider art and okay for tattoos in one hospital in one part of the country might not be so welcome in another. This is what I mean by defining offensive. It is a broad term and subject to the views of those having the tattoo and those who must look at it each day. But, it can be declared art and it does not contain nudity or profanity.
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Tattoos are everywhere. When I was a kid, back in the dinosaur days, tattoos were rare and therefore I found them interesting. Now, I see them on so many of the nurses and patients I know or encounter within a certain age bracket. My only personal feeling is that I am glad I don't have any because the whole point of getting one would have been to be "different". Other than that passing, occasional thought, I couldn't possibly care less about them if I tried. I've seen some tattoos that were, let's say—confrontational—and I found I just didn't give a care. I work with some great co-workers who have tattoos over a good part of their bodies and these same people act professionally, and have a strong work ethic. I'll admit I work in a relatively liberal environment, but no one even mentions tattoos or appears to care one bit despite (or possible because of) their prevalence.
Farawyn
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Homer Simpson, too. He's bald.