Imagine a hospital in which all nurses and doctors exhibit professionalism, beauty, splendor, and awe among colleagues and patients. A place where the people taking care of you appear greater than human, larger than life, infallible figures, portraying an image that captures total trust and total confidence from those nearby. What a wonderful place that would be. But alas, we have work ahead of us.
This thread is designed to discuss the importance of impressions in nursing. While many nurses take pride in appearing beautiful or handsome, many walk in to work with a case of the feck-its when it comes to appearance. Unfortunately I feel that nurses are much worse than doctors in this arena. Where I work the majority of female doctors wear their hair down, liberally apply makeup, wear form fitting clothing, and hard soled shoes. They try to appear as beautiful as they can. Likewise, the male doctors come in with tailored clothing that had been ironed, they have well-oiled hair, nice watches, and other things reminiscent of the show "General Hospital."
Meanwhile, in the ICU I've worked in, we've got a female nurse with a buzz cut, one woman wearing a pirate-like black eye patch, nurses with baggy wrinkled scrubs, nurses wearing those ugly skechers shapeups, everyone wearing their hair up or back in a plain boring pony tail instead of letting it flow, men or even women with untrimmed or unneatly trimmed facial hair and people exhibiting other drab or and in my humble opinion, embarrassing features. I feel like no other college educated profession dresses down as much as nurses do and it bothers me.
What do you think of nurses and the images they portray in the professional setting? Use this thread to talk about what you like or dislike, what you think should change and what shouldn't.
This thread is a great read, and I'm gonna finish it, but I have to get ready to go to work now.
(Audience: AAAAAAAAAWWWW!)
I really want to give OP some words of advice in the art of debate: When you present a premise, stick to that premise Those you are arguing with are using some techniques, like "changing horses in midstream". In this case, the whip and the charting stuff. I know you tried to keep them on topic, but allowed them their diversion and lost some footing in the meantime. Now you are debating three areas; fighting three fronts so to speak, which is going to spread you thin on an already weak premise.
I gotta go. In the meantime, watch the excellent movie "The Great Debaters".
See ya!
It helps even more if your premise has a solid foundation. The OPs assertions in this thread are not just on shaky ground, but more like quicksand.
It doesn't matter how long they last. If you're willing to use one recreational drug, odds are you'll be willing to try another, "just this once," then again and again.
I dont know...ive noticed that the majority of medical staff who spend a lot of time on their appearance tend to be focused on extracirriculars and avoiding actual work. Im suspicious of any nurse who doesn't wear their long hair up in a ponytail....the amount of nasty encountered in our day to day job; a pony tail is just another line of protection like gloves. Makeup i wear but its gone halfway through the shift. Its sorta pointless when you have a job as physical as ours. I believe in looking presentable and professional but also appropriate for what we do.
I appreciate my coworkers skills far more than their ability to perfect eyeliner or be prepared for that nonexistent photo shoot.
As a General Hospital fan, this cracks me up. Sure its easy to look beautiful with the flowing hair when you don't have to do actual nursing work and have a makeup department to touch you up between filming takes.
Anytime I've worn make up and done my hair. . It's all melted off in the first few hours. . I guess if you don't work very hard you could focus on being beautiful. .. But when you sweat like crazy from busting your butt to get your work done. .. it just isn't worth it. It's rather embarrassing walking into the bathroom Right after you were in a patient's room and noticing you look like you just got your *** beat from the raccoon eyes dripping down your face.
Did I mention anywhere that I recently huffed? All I've said was that I've done it. Could have been last week, could have been last year.
In your huffing thread, you used the present tense to refer to huffing while in a monitoring program. Granted, you could have been talking about having huffed in the past. But if you aren't doing it anymore, why would you be bothering to start a thread to ask if any monitoring programs allow it? Idle curiosity?
(And next time, on General Hospital: AllNurses, what goes on in the operating room...)
Nurse Leigh
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It helps even more if your premise has a solid foundation. The OPs assertions in this thread are not just on shaky ground, but more like quicksand.