We have a few student nurses coming in here as part of their curriculum. There is one who dons theatrical makeup-false eyelashes and heavy tan makeup which I find so inappropriate. Should not the lady's nursing instructor tell her it's inappropriate? Why have they allowed it this far? Every nurse in my unit has made a comment on it; we all wear makeup and feel that foundation helps protect US from various splashes. But the globs of eyeshadow and eyelashes NEED TO GO. What should I say, if anything .
I just don't like the image this student nurse is represnting.
I totally understand not showing boobs, butts, bellybuttons, etc. but I'm not sure how someone's choice of makeup changes their nursing abilities. Personally, I think it looks unprofessional when ladies show up with no makeup on at all and look half dead!
Just be blunt....tell the chic that she is representing herself as someone that cares more about caking makeup on then caring for patients.....you have been too nice to let it go this long lol
I don't think it's any of your business to monitor nursing students makeup. That's up to the nursing instructor. There are just people out there in the world who wear way too much makeup, I have a best friend who does this & trust me I tell her she looks like a clown..yet she continues to do this.
Just deal with it and move on. Her appearance really isn't any of your business. Do I tell my coworkers their scrubs are ugly or I think the cartoon figures on your top makes the nursing profession look stupid? I personally feel the all white starched and hair up in a bun look of nursing students looks absolutely ridiculous.
Anyway...it's none of your business and odd that you're so concerned about a nursing student. She doesn't work for you.
I don't think it's any of your business to monitor nursing students makeup. That's up to the nursing instructor. There are just people out there in the world who wear way too much makeup, I have a best friend who does this & trust me I tell her she looks like a clown..yet she continues to do this.
Just deal with it and move on. Her appearance really isn't any of your business. Do I tell my coworkers their scrubs are ugly or I think the cartoon figures on your top makes the nursing profession look stupid? I personally feel the all white starched and hair up in a bun look of nursing students looks absolutely ridiculous.
Anyway...it's none of your business and odd that you're so concerned about a nursing student. She doesn't work for you.
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I totally understand not showing boobs, butts, bellybuttons, etc. but I'm not sure how someone's choice of makeup changes their nursing abilities. Personally, I think it looks unprofessional when ladies show up with no makeup on at all and look half dead!
It kinda bugs me that in our society, people think you look "dead" when you have no make up on, instead of looking "natural", etc. Most make-up mimics (even subtly) sexual arousal response. I don't think there is anything wrong with not wearing make-up, and it doesn't make anyone more or less professional.
When I was in school, we were allowed whatever uniforms we wanted. The nurses on the units where we did clinicals were so OUTRAGED by our looks that this was the bulk of their complaining. :icon_roll I guess some students would wear funky socks with pastel uniforms, etc and this was seen as really egregious.
(A nurse I know who did the clinical instructor job for a few terms told me that the biggest hurdle she faced was hostility of the ward nurses to the students and that this was a problem just about everywhere.)
So, after my class, the faculty went to requiring nursing students to wear white.
Then, I remember one student who came to my unit in the required white uniform. Despite being spoken to numerous times, he insisted on wearing coloured, polka-dot, etc boxers under the white scrub uniform. He was one of those socially awkward people who didn't "get it" about a lot of things, I think he eventually dropped out. Just goes to show that you can make whatever "rules" you want, but teaching students the subtleties of looking and acting professional are never that black and white.
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I totally understand not showing boobs, butts, bellybuttons, etc. but I'm not sure how someone's choice of makeup changes their nursing abilities. Personally, I think it looks unprofessional when ladies show up with no makeup on at all and look half dead!