You cant be fashionable for nursing.

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Ok so I was told by my instructor that one cannot be too fashionable in nursing.What she meant by it is that you cant have your hair down (I have a hair that is medium-lenght and layered so it doesnt really touch my neck,so I dont see the problem why cant I wear it down.Also she she mentioned something about the nails,they cant be too long.Ok I agree with this because the lenght provide the site for microorganism colonization,however why cant they be painted???It is not like it willrelease the odor which then can be offending to the patients.

Rules are rules but in the reality how many of you nurses put your hair up and wear no nail polish to work.Just curious...

Specializes in Telemetry, M/S.

I used to wear my hair loose...until I got poop in it one evening.

:imbar

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I hated white scrubs. I didn't have to wear them in school. Our uniforms for clinicals were blue. But when I was an extern we had to wear white scrubs.

I adore white scrubs/uniform because it reminds me of how a real nurse looks like/dont take it the wrong way.

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We're definitely in aggrement. There's a difference between something that fits and something that is too tight and we've all seen it. Too loose and looking like a slob presents its own set of problems. The v-neck line drooping too low and revealing way too much the baggy pantlegs or shirt dragging across the dirty linen . . . . . . . . . Blech![/quote']

Oh please why there is an always assumption that just because someone wants to be well-groomed they try to hook up with someone,people have more ambition than that.

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oh honey, i had to smile at this statement.

i sooooooo doubt that an older, 38yo woman would be threatened by a younger counterpart.

whether a woman is in her 30s, 40s, 50s +++, we have been where you are, and speaking for many of us, wouldn't trade it for all the tea in china.

we've had our time, to strut like a peacock, be single, know our phermones, and show 'em our stuff.

yrs later, it is just so damned trivial and superficial.

truly, it is.

so while i do understand wanting to look good, being a young woman, don't for one moment think that we 'older' ones are envious or jealous.

there comes a time and age, when we grow into ourselves, knowing and 'strutting' our newfound sense of selves, flaws and all...

knowing that our 20 yr-younger self couldn't hold a light to what/who we are today.

we know that nursing is all about servicing our pts, and dressing according to the demands and drawbacks of that job.

nothing wrong with being well groomed.

it's a must for self-respect.

but if one starts dressing in hopes of attracting the attn of others, you are so in the wrong profession.

wishing you only the very best.

leslie:)

Please believe me that there are women out there who are vicious and jealous,I am speaking from experience.A confident happy/attractive woman wont even bother to make hatred remarks about someone's body,looks.Like I said this is the first time I experiences such thing because usually mid-age women are pretty cool,but sadly I was a victim in this case.

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Thanks, Leslie! My tongue is bleeding from not taking the bait . . . . . . .;)

You are soooo right though. I love being on the other side of thirty. It's far easier to be comfortable in my own skin. I hated my teens and twenties.

I think I'll stop before I'm accused of eating my young! :devil:

Ok you hate it your teens and twenties,but let someone else enjoy their twenties and thirties,and enjoy it yourself!

BTW I didnt hate any of my age phases,there were good and bad times.But I love my twenties and I believe I will love my thirties,thanks.

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Specializes in OB, NICU, Nursing Education (academic).
Our uniforms were the dumpiest, most evil Caribbean Blue nightmares you could imagine.

I think that clinical instructors like us to look dowdy.

Just suck it up.

:wink2:

I'm laughing because I'm a professor at a school that requires evil Caribbean blue scrubs with (horrors!!) a sewn in pleat right down the middle of each leg! The students hate them, but we seriously didn't have a special meeting to choose the dowdiest possible......although they are pretty dowdy.:D

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I'm laughing because I'm a professor at a school that requires evil Caribbean blue scrubs with (horrors!!) a sewn in pleat right down the middle of each leg! The students hate them, but we seriously didn't have a special meeting to choose the dowdiest possible......although they are pretty dowdy.:D

You mean they were an accident?

Shock horror, indeed!

;)

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Specializes in EMS, ER, GI, PCU/Telemetry.
I'm laughing because I'm a professor at a school that requires evil Caribbean blue scrubs with (horrors!!) a sewn in pleat right down the middle of each leg! The students hate them, but we seriously didn't have a special meeting to choose the dowdiest possible......although they are pretty dowdy.:D

mine were a horrible blue too! i felt like a smurf! and i think we looked like a bunch of them. definately not a flattering color for us.

and now that i've graduated, they changed the clinical uniforms to maroon and white. i'd rather do that than electric blue!

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Specializes in cardiac, ortho, med surg, oncology.
Never mind the fact that the nail polish can chip and fall into wounds and such.. Creating more opportunity for infection..

There are reasons for the rules. For both the patients and the nurses protection..

:)

What? You mean you don't wear gloves when dealing with wounds and such? Sounds gross and nasty to me.

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Specializes in Neuro/Med-Surg/Oncology.
Oh please why there is an always assumption that just because someone wants to be well-groomed they try to hook up with someone,people have more ambition than that.

Or you can try reading what I actually typed, which was that there is a difference between clothing that actually fits and looks nice instead and clothing that is obviously too tight. I agree with you. People should not be showing-up to work looking like slobs.

You can be well groomed without your weekly manicure. You can be well-groomed without your hair perfectly styled in a way that isn't appropriate for working hands-on for hours on end with patients.

My suggestion to you is to learn to pick and choose your fights. Or you can keep doing what you are doing and slowly uncoil enough rope to hang yourself. If you make your hair, nails and clothing your biggest concern, you will wind-up missing a lot of things that are important.

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Specializes in Neuro/Med-Surg/Oncology.
What? You mean you don't wear gloves when dealing with wounds and such? Sounds gross and nasty to me.

No, but if you shake said pt's hand and then he scratches, brushes against or bumps said wound, the stuff that is festering in your polish could wind-up in it. Or if your neutropenic pt rubs his nose after he touches the same spot on his gown or covers that you have it could have bad results for him. With regard to nails and polish and the like, it's not a rule that was made arbitrarily. It's evidence based. The studies should not be too hard to find.

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What? You mean you don't wear gloves when dealing with wounds and such? Sounds gross and nasty to me.

Good point....

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