Will they make her cut her hair?

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There is a girl that has been in some of my classes that is applying to nursing school with me. I am not trying to be judgemental or anything, but she has dread locks, and I have taken Medical Microbiology and...do I need to say more? Do think they will make her cut her hair before they let her do clinicals? I've never seen a nurse with dread locks before.

I do agree with the posters stating it doesn't matter what kind of hair or ethnic background...but I find it a hygiene matter if hair is left down that touches the collar...Not appropriate for pt. care...just like outrageous jewerly or makeup, people go to work to pick up patients...LOL I have seen this, very disappointing.

A nurse can represent his/her individuality in anyway he or she chooses as long as it doesn't interfer with infection control measures and a professional look is obtained...I think professional can be with lots of piercings or body tatoos or light make up...but the hair fixing and down and the party look for makeup, just looks unprofessional IMO.

Anyhow, be a patient advocate if you need to but other than that, accept a person for his or her individuallity as long as it doesn't intervere with infection control and professionalism(LOL that is in the eye of the beholder isn't it) glad I am not the one choosing those...LOL

Annette

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There is a girl that has been in some of my classes that is applying to nursing school with me. I am not trying to be judgemental or anything, but she has dread locks, and I have taken Medical Microbiology and...do I need to say more? Do think they will make her cut her hair before they let her do clinicals? I've never seen a nurse with dread locks before.

I don't think they should make her cut her dreadlocks. If having them interfears with with patient care, then yes otherwise, no. :stone

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If she had dreadlocks for religious reasons then there could be trouble if they tried to make her cut them.

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I've seen plenty of people who had nasty hair who didn't have dreadlocks. :barf02:

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There is a girl that has been in some of my classes that is applying to nursing school with me. I am not trying to be judgemental or anything, but she has dread locks, and I have taken Medical Microbiology and...do I need to say more? Do think they will make her cut her hair before they let her do clinicals? I've never seen a nurse with dread locks before.

I have seen several nurses with "dreadlocks". As an African-American nurse, I find some of the opinions regarding locks offensive. Some locks may look unkempt, but they are washed and kept up on a daily basis. Don't assume that because a person has locks, that their hair is dirty and harboring microorganisms. As a matter of fact, do a little research and see who has more occurrences of head lice. :

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I have seen several nurses with "dreadlocks". As an African-American nurse, I find some of the opinions regarding locks offensive. Some locks may look unkempt, but they are washed and kept up on a daily basis. Don't assume that because a person has locks, that their hair is dirty and harboring microorganisms. As a matter of fact, do a little research and see who has more occurrences of head lice. :

I am an African American nurse and when I was in nursing school our caucasian instructor became very offended when one of the other African American students said that blacks did not get head lice (there was only 4 African Americans in the class). She orderd her to do a ten page report on headlice. After all that her report stated that headlice occur in caucasians more often than African Americans because they perfer there hair environment over ours. The instructor was extra hard on her after that until we graduated. I live in a town that is very segregated and I have never herd of an African American on this side of town getting head lice, but on the other side of town they have an episode of it every year esp. during the school term :stone

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When my daughter was 10 she and her friends all got head lice.

The metal comb used the remove the eggs (nits) has teeth with no space between them.

There was no way to comb my daughters hair with that comb! After the three daily Kwell shampoos I took her to the shop for an attractive short cut. Her friend with straight thin hair got to keep it long.

I am told the oil and other hair dressing products used by Black people makes it impossible for the louse to attach her eggs to the hair strand.

I don't know for sure.

The picture is my daughter last new years eve age 37 now.

She's not a nurse.

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proper hygiene is the key issue here.

and i hope this doesn't get into a tug-of-war of who gets more head lice now.

i think we all agree that dread locks are appropriate if tied back and/or kept neatly and clean.

if there were offensive comments, i did not note them; rather i saw a lot of educating.....please, let's keep it on a positive note.

leslie

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I agree; hygiene is key. And it would be nice not to get into a tit-for-tat regarding which person of a given heritage gets lice or other problems most. Not useful or germane to the original concern brought by the poster, to get into race wars here.

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What does the fact that you've taken Medical Microbiology have anything to do with dreadlocks? If I were to do an online search using those two terms as main keywords there will not be any correlation.

The only exception I'd found after briefly conducting such a search was finding an article about man who wore dreadlocks & who also had a PHD in Microbiology! :lol2:

So, you've never seen a nurse with dreadlocks before? Just because somebody has never seen something does not mean that "something" is not out there. It may means though that some people need to expand their cultural awareness.

Any thinking person would realize that if certain hairstyles were detrimental to the medical field, such issues would have been covered a long time ago.

There is a girl that has been in some of my classes that is applying to nursing school with me. I am not trying to be judgemental or anything, but she has dread locks, and I have taken Medical Microbiology and...do I need to say more? Do think they will make her cut her hair before they let her do clinicals? I've never seen a nurse with dread locks before.
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Honey, you need to get him to the ER! He has blood all over his face! :coollook:[/quote

I Know and he still looks so good with the blood on his face.:rotfl:

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