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.
The problem with the woman with the military style buzz cut was that it was cut so close to her scalp that you could see like, pimples from ingrown hairs or something, and a wart/mole thing on the side of her head. That is just freaking gross.
Off topic, but wonder how flammable some of those oils, pomades, brillo creme etc were...a lot of "greasers" seemed to smoke (at least according to movies and musicals!)
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The problem with the woman with the military style buzz cut was that it was cut so close to her scalp that you could see like, pimples from ingrown hairs or something, and a wart/mole thing on the side of her head. That is just freaking gross.
Did you ever stop to think that she may have some type of DISORDER??????? HELLO!!!! For instance,"I"m sorry the sight of my ugly head offends you but I lost my hair to chemo"
Did you ever stop to think that she may have some type of DISORDER??????? HELLO!!!! For instance,"I"m sorry the sight of my ugly head offends you but I lost my hair to chemo"
Or, " I just wanna be bald, Dude, what business is it of yours?"
This is really a weird post not just for the content but it also completely disregards what some patients think they can get away with in terms of making inappropriate statements based on appearance. I've had enough old "confused" men hit on me when I looked like I got maybe at least 70% of the sleep I should be getting and it was the start of shift and I had yet to be run ragged. How much worse would it be if everyone was running around looking like supermodels? Also, gross. I would never reapply makeup at work. I would feel as if I was asking to get an infection. Blech. It's ALL disgusting.
Off topic, but wonder how flammable some of those oils, pomades, brillo creme etc were...a lot of "greasers" seemed to smoke (at least according to movies and musicals!)
Likely completely, utterly, and totally flammable -- isn't it all petroleum. Sorry, I can't go suction that patient today. My hair is well oiled and flowing and I might cause the patient and myself to explode since my silk Cuban-heel stockings are generating so much static and such.
Did you ever stop to think that she may have some type of DISORDER??????? HELLO!!!! For instance,"I"m sorry the sight of my ugly head offends you but I lost my hair to chemo"
It wasn't a loss of thickness that I was seeing. It was just a shortening of the hair to like a crew cut.
It was shorter though -- like actually buzzed as if she were in the military.
As I read your post, my mind went to some of the women physicians on the unit where I work! One in particular looks like she is ready to go out for a night-out, not to mention her beautiful and long flowing hair lifted and puffed at any given conversation.
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