Tattooed nurses

[CaptainCabinets]

Would you be put off by a tattooed nurse? At the moment I’ve only got them in places a patient would never see but I do plan to add some to my upper arm in the near future.

Just want to hear your thoughts and reasons!

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My ds has to have regular blood tests. He hates them and always makes a massive deal of it - until the last time when the nurse was heavily tattooed and had piercings. Ds thought he was the coolest nurse ever and had his blood test completely without any fuss! Now I'm hoping all his blood test nurses have tatoos..😊

When l had my hip replacement, one of the young men (not sure if he was a nurse or a theatre technician) had a Joy Division tattoo partially visible on his upper arm. l was so busy chatting to him about it that it totally distracted me from what the anaesthetist was doing. Quite frankly l wouldn't care less about tattoos, more about the care given by the person who had them.

This is enormously refreshing to hear. I Am 53 and trained at Barts. We had to have starched pinned on aprons, starched collars and 'fluffy cuffs. A tattoo would have got you struck off in the early 80s.
So, I have to admit, I am against tattoss in a proffessional capacity. BUT, and this is important, as so many others have said, I have seen some atrocious treatment/care in older nurses and some exceptional care in younger ones.

If I were a pt, and someone just held my hand and seemed to care, who cares about tatoos.
If I were in a position, I suspect I would, and hope, that i would express interest in the tattoo ? Why not, it is another way to form bonds with people.

Couldn’t care less, unless it’s a swastika or something

Was hearing about a young lady on the radio who had VEGAN tattooed across her forehead. She just couldn't understand why nobody would employ her?! Cuhh, some people eh?!

The tattoo I have in mind would be botanicals so daisies, poppies, bees etc. All black and grey and inoffensive

I would love that as a patient; it sounds very pretty and would give me something to talk to you about. Assuming I wasn't screaming in pain, hallucinating or demanding morphine thinks back to a previous visit, in which case I wouldn't care what you had or where. So win-win for the tattoo.

However, I think it depends more on how your employer would view it.

Obviously most tattoos would barely register a glance with me, but what if it was a rendering of Harry Styles, or a dead dog? Or a cursive affirmation?

I might judge said HCP to be not that smart. 😂

Oh this is as goady, condescending and pompous as the SAHW thread

@mumma

It wasn’t meant to be goady

Sadly it’s been hijacked by holier-than-thou condescending types.

Was hearing about a young lady on the radio who had VEGAN tattooed across her forehead

I read that as Wigan at first glance!

Wigan

I find tattoos very distasteful and ugly, I cannot understand why anyone would want to disfigure their body with one.
It says a lot about a person who has to follow the herd down the route of body disfigurement thinking it looks cool, it doesn't.
Nobody will be offended by you not having a tattoo, but thy might if you do, please don't do it.

I find tattoos very distasteful and ugly, I cannot understand why anyone would want to disfigure their body with one

Cool. Don’t have one then.

I don't care if a nurse has a full facial tattoo, what matters to me is that they look after me, my family or friends when we are in hospital.

If even under the huge pressure they experience they can be kind and friendly that's a double bonus.

That said, if they did have a full facial tattoo they should be ready for nosy people like me to nicely ask them where they got it done and the story behind it

It might be a generational thing, some older patients may not be keen on a healthcare professional with tattoos but the younger ones probably wouldn't give it a second thought, chances are they would have them themselves anyway.

No and anyone who is bothered by someone else’s body art is a bit of a Pratt tbh
I’d want a kind and caring and efficient nurse and I wouldn’t much care what they looked like .

@Vicky1990

Good for you, don’t get one then.

It says a lot about a person who judges someone for having artwork on their skin when they don’t know them.

Good grief there are still a lot of dick heads out there who have old fashioned views about tattoos. I’m thinking particularly about those who have commented you can’t see how clean someone’s skin is 🤣
Also those who aren’t afraid to use words like ‘hate’ and those who do being ‘morons’. I think this says a lot more about you!
Ps: hate to break this to you but I have 7 tattoos and am a teacher, the results I produced for the last 4 years were 100% A*/A infact 86% were no lower than B grades. Suck on that

It never bothered me personally I have one on upper arm. But I know my DS5 was terrified when he was in hospital with a stomach problem and wouldn't let any nurse or doctor touch him, they were on verge of sedating him so they could examine him when a great big male nurse came in with tats all over his arms and neck and chest (yes he showed us the chest ones too) and our son was amazed at them and spent the next half an hour studying this guys tattoos while he examined him. I think if anything he was drawn because his grandad has them everywhere and felt at home with this guy. But I don't think I'd care to be honest, it just shows they're humann

It says a lot about a person who has to follow the herd down the route of body disfigurement thinking it looks cool, it doesn't. Nobody will be offended by you not having a tattoo, but thy might if you do, please don't do it.

Yep, because that's exactly why I had a tattoo done; because I thought it looked "cool". But now that a random stranger on the internet has said they don't like them and not to do it, I'll get them all lasered off

Stop being so judgemental. There are far more pressing and upsetting things going on in the world, than what an adult chooses to legally do to their own body - which has zero impact and effect on you.

I definitely nothing which ends with an -ology'. I have a PPE

Ah, yes, known as the "Tim Nice But Dim But Daddy Is A Stockbroker Yah" degree. Did you enjoy the pigs' heads?

followed by Linguists and Computing.

Haven't done any linguists myself (preferred rugby players and sailors) though did study Linguistics for a Bit. I know the title of the subject too.

I've only got a masters from another ancient university though, after I attended public school (strangely, one where we were encouraged to avoid snobbery and preconceptions despite the royal OGs).

Working for the Faculty of Advocates, I was once accused of copying one of my nine tattoos from a very well known QC. It might have been done by the same artist but mine was done and in her book before he toddled down the Canongate to peruse the options for his armpiece.

preferred rugby players

Lots of tattoos there

'It says a lot about a person who has to follow the herd down the route of body disfigurement thinking it looks cool, it doesn't.'

I have a tiny bee tattoo in a place where it is covered unless I wear a vest.
I didn't get it to follow the herd or look cool. I got it because myself and my daughter knew two of the victims in Manchester and we had been in the arena I wanted to do it for me. It's my only tattoo and always will be.

To the person who said about it going out of date well the bee has been a symbol since the industrial revolution so I'm not worried about that.

Not sure why do many people are so obsessed with what other people choose do with their bodies !