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.
Good heavens! Don't you know the time between Thanksgiving and New Years is a diet free zone? Oh, gosh I forgot to add the time up until after Valentine's Day with all that chocolate around.
Yep, definitely no diets allowed from Thanksgiving until March 1rst. That gives a two week cushion to finish off the chocolate.
...oh wait, I just thought of Halloween candy. Well now, scratch that whole diet idea from Oct 31 to March 1rst now. Sigh, this is probably why in real life I am not a Victoria's Secret model.
(1) I've never done whip-its while at work. They don't last any longer than about 30 seconds either. So that isn't very germane to my professionalism. But it's fun to talk about nonetheless.
(2) I am not saying it's a hard and fast rule that every nurse should be beautiful or handsome. But at least try. I've always believed that no matter how much natural beauty anyone has, they can always be "done up" to look pretty good in a certain light.
What in the world????? If this is the future of nursing, then God help us all!!!
I know, I know!! But this perimenapausal crap is making me desperate!
Btw- one day on clinicals I came in with my hair and makeup done and it just about sent my cohort into shock. í ½í¸³ Not sure what to think about that...
Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.
Btw- one day on clinicals I came in with my hair and makeup done and it just about sent my cohort into shock. �� Not sure what to think about that...
Reminds me of a few years back when my coworker told me my Facebook profile pic was "actually pretty."
Um, thanks, back to the sea with the other hags for now...
Reminds me of a few years back when my coworker told me my Facebook profile pic was "actually pretty."
Um, thanks, back to the sea with the other hags for now...
I've gotten the same thing lol. I swear I look professional and clean at work but people see me outside work and they're like omg, you're actually pretty. Im like oookkk do I look like a hideous troll the rest of the time lol. I just don't wear full make up at work, and hair is up in the least likely to be pulled style. At work I wear cc ream and benifits benetint so I dont look like an extra for the walking dead. But thats it.
Good heavens! Don't you know the time between Thanksgiving and New Years is a diet free zone? Oh, gosh I forgot to add the time up until after Valentine's Day with all that chocolate around.
Yep, definitely no diets allowed from Thanksgiving until March 1rst. That gives a two week cushion to finish off the chocolate.
...oh wait, I just thought of Halloween candy. Well now, scratch that whole diet idea from Oct 31 to March 1rst now. Sigh, this is probably why in real life I am not a Victoria's Secret model.
Don't forget Easter!! That gives us until April most years.
!!!! Oh my goodness...I think any Nurse will agree that when you are at work your concern is your patients...NOT your hair or looks or even scrubs. Scrubs are meant to be plain and simple and easy to wash and comfortable. Id rather have baggy comfy scrubs and be plain and simple and focus on my WORK! This isnt a salon or a office or a fancy restrautant...also what ICU Nurse would ever work with their hair down *flowing*...?? Heck, any Nurse PERIOD! When sh*t gets real...your hair SHOULD be your last concern....Ditto for shoes...wear whats supportive for your 12 hours + standing!!!
Thanks OP! I'm feeling very inspired to get up at 4am tomorrow so that I can have enough time for my blow-out and make-up application! Hopefully there will be a code so that a large group of my peers will be there to be dazzled by my beauty. I'll have to ask them to refrain from turning on the exam light, though. Ugh. Why is that light even there? It's so unflattering! If only I was a hospital designer, lol.
kbrn2002, ADN, RN
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Good heavens! Don't you know the time between Thanksgiving and New Years is a diet free zone? Oh, gosh I forgot to add the time up until after Valentine's Day with all that chocolate around.
Yep, definitely no diets allowed from Thanksgiving until March 1rst. That gives a two week cushion to finish off the chocolate.
...oh wait, I just thought of Halloween candy. Well now, scratch that whole diet idea from Oct 31 to March 1rst now. Sigh, this is probably why in real life I am not a Victoria's Secret model.