TATTOOS!!

[Jordan1927]

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?

[Tenebrae, BSN, RN]

I have six tattoos, and 17 piercings most in my ears, one in my nose and two others in places where no one but an intimate partner would ever see them, except for the time I had to have a chest xray. Who ever knew surgical steel showed up so white on xrays:yes:

Anyhow, my point being. They have never once stopped me from getting nursing jobs. In fact the last job i applied for I ended up getting interviewed and wanted at two separate facilities.

A CV with about five major spelling and grammatical errors stopped me from getting some jobs, boy was that embarrassing when i realised that I probably came across as functionally illiterate.

[PHhopeful]

I think it definitely depends on where you work, too. Feeling out the culture is important--and deferring to the the employee handbook. My employer practically prides itself in the diverse body art of its employees! At least half my coworkers have their hair dyed an unnatural color. But, since we're a women's clinic, there's probably an element of subversion there :) On the other hand, I wouldnever show up at clinical rotation with so much as a nose piercing. It's not prejudice on my part--it's respect for the rules of the organization. It's about professionalism. When I see other nursing students going against those rules, it bugs me. To me, it means they don't care about following the rules and in my opinion that translates to other things like cheating on tests or neglecting patient care. At the very least, those students must think that the rules that apply to the rest of us don't apply to them. It has nothing to do with their self-expression. I hope that makes sense. Just my opinion!