TATTOOS!!

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Hi everyone. So, i have 3 tattoos, but they're in places where you wouldn't know i have them unless i told you. Would they hurt my chances of getting a job after nursing school?

So apparently I am the only one who had to strip down for my pre employment physical and morality check.

Well, of course. You are That Guy.

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Specializes in UR/PA, Hematology/Oncology, Med Surg, Psych.
So apparently I am the only one who had to strip down for my pre employment physical and morality check.

Did they make you recite the Florence pledge by heart and swear on a nursing cap that this is your calling and forever dream? If not, you got off easy

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.
Did they make you recite the Florence pledge by heart and swear on a nursing cap that this is your calling and forever dream? If not you got off easy[/quote']

While patting my head and rubbing my stomach on one foot with a spoon in my mouth balancing an egg.

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Specializes in Postpartum, Labor & Delivery.

You guys are amazing :roflmao: i literally can't stop smiling and laughing

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Specializes in Psych,LTC,.

Never seen them, but I have seen people dress (a stretch of the word) , a tad bit abbreviated. Not that I mind, but I don't want some of my elderly gents getting a heart attack.

lol, daisy duke scrubs???
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Specializes in Psych,LTC,.

Probably not, but you may want to make sure they are absolutely covered for the first 90 days until you get a real feel for the clientele and management.

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
Well, of course. You are That Guy.

Dangit! You got to it before me!!! :roflmao:

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Dangit! You got to it before me!!! :roflmao:

We need to make a game of this. Whoever hits it first gets a pony.

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No, they won't. One poor classmate of mine had to get her enormous lower arm tattoo removed during nursing school, though, so she wasn't banished to long sleeves forever. Just please don't be one of those nursing students that wears fake nails, dyes their hair purple, or sports their septum piercing during clinical. Even if your preceptor doesn't say anything, you still make your whole clinical group look bad. But, I'd say that majority of us are hiding tattoos under our scrubs these days :)

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Specializes in Psychiatric.

I'm amazed tattoos are even an issue! I have tatts on my fingers and no one has ever batted an eye even during clinicals etc. I class treating people with tattoos differently or judging them in a negative way as extremely prejudice and I would say as much if anyone ever brought up the issue with me.

Dont give another thought to your tatts, work hard at being a thorough and kind nurse because at the end of the day, patients need good care and what you look like is a moot point.

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Specializes in medical icu, surgical icu.

I have full sleeves wrist to shoulder on both arms. I wear t-shirts only and never, ever had one problem. Course, it helps that they are all super heroes. Lots and lots of compliments.

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Specializes in Allergy/ENT, Occ Health, LTC/Skilled.

I have half a sleeve and several on my forearms. I wear sleeves to anything to do with work, even if it's just a nurse meeting. I have never had an issue.

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