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!

I think you should keep tattoos to areas which can't be seen when wearing your uniform.

@RoadToRivendell All of the money raised from those tattoos went to the victim's families so yeah I imagine the families were comforted by that.

Don't put down something you know nothing about.

I don't have tattoos and don't really like tattoos and don't understand why people would want them...but they don't offend me. It's not my body and if others want them that's non of my concern, it wouldn't make me think any less of them and I certainly wouldn't be judging a person potentially saving my life on their 'tattoo status'.

And as for that nonsense that "Europeans don't have tattoos", one of my friends is a German cancer nurse with the most amazing collection of tattoos. I know a fair few tattooed Germans, Dutch, Scandinavians, etc. Perhaps I just don't move in the right buttock-clenching, pearl-grasping Hyacinth-alike circles.

@ChevalierTialys
I think I love you for that post.

I like nurses as they help me and other sick people. Couldn't care less if they have tattoos.

You go for it! .. but yes do remember that employers MAY be funny about you having them - so please put this priority first.

Permanently marking one’s skin is an act of such ill judgement in our society that patients would seriously question your ability to do anything but the most basic aspects of your job. Nursing as practised today is a profession requiring knowledge, sense, judgement and discipline and it is essential that patients should have confidence in those who exercises control over them when they are vulnerable. Tattoos belie many of these qualities.

Whatever people might say in this virtue signalling world, the sight of a sleeve of tattooos however innocuous, perhaps especially if innocuous, will,cause people to think:- low status, criminal, mentally unstable, needy.

Doctors do not hanker to have their bodies marked on the whole because they combine intelligence with a desire to exude an air of high status.

I am sorry if this is rude but I suspect some of the above posts are either mistaken or a case of vitrtue signalling. This is an issue like those of which Thomas Hardy wrote when he said, ‘ what everyone thinks but nobody says.’

Sorry, exercise, not exercises.

Nurses aren't permitted to have visible piercings, tattoos or unnatural coloured hair. It's actually in degree policy.

Not in any Scottish Unis it isn't. Any jewellery inc nose rings, conches etc, do need to be removed due to hygiene reasons of course. Offensive tattoos are not allowed. My DD has stars on her back which go to back of neck and no one has commented.

Permanently marking one’s skin is an act of such ill judgement in our society that patients would seriously question your ability to do anything but the most basic aspects of your job.

What a goady post. Luckily the vast majority of patients aren't as judgemental as you purport to be in this post.
My first

'will,cause people to think:- low status, criminal, mentally unstable, needy.

Doctors do not hanker to have their bodies marked on the whole because they combine intelligence with a desire to exude an air of high status.'

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I know loads of doctors with tattoos. They just are in places that can be covered.

Jesus teacher talk about 'unintelligent' what a load of tripe.

'High status' 'low intelligence' 'mentally unstable' 'needy' you really dont speak for any of the patients i ever met.

Oh and nursing has always required knowledge, and discipline combined with tolerance and empathy none of which you seem to have.

Some of these posts make me laugh. Chances are you’ve been treated by someone with tattoos but you wouldn’t have known they had them. My dh wears a suit for work. The only places he has tattoo free skin is his hands, neck and private parts! If you saw him in a suit you would never dream he is as tattooed as he is or at all. It doesn’t change a persons intelligence or ability to do their job because they choose to decorate their skin.

Doctors do not hanker to have their bodies marked on the whole because they combine intelligence with a desire to exude an air of high status

The surgeon I saw regularly when I was recovering from a leg break had two, at least half, sleeves.

No but I'd rather it wasn't a tattoo of the Grim Reaper

Oh Teacher your post has really made me laugh.

Bless you, in all your pompous and patronising glory

Teacher 22, totally agree with your view on this subject.

Another point to consider is the cost and time taken up by the NHS on the treatment of infections and injures caused to by dirty needles, and the removal of tattoos.

As you have asked for options there must be some doubt in your mind as to the wisdom of getting more tattoos, best go with that doubt and don't do it.

Just as well I use a clean, sterile studio then, eh?

Unless you think everyone with a tattoo is riddled with hepatitis

Also for Teacher and Vicky

Another point to consider is the cost and time taken up by the NHS on the treatment of infections and injures caused to by dirty needles, and the removal of tattoos

Please do show me some stats to back that assertion up.

Tattoo removal is rarely, rarely available on the NHS. So the same people who paid to have the tattoo are paying to have it removed. Do you really have an issue with someone spending their own money as they see fit?

Ah, I'd better tell my amazing GP that his tattoo sleeves make him unintelligent then. I'd also better hand back all my degrees, and my resignation as a teacher, because the pictures on my skin reduce the power of my brain.

Teacher - are you aware of how ridiculous you sound? I hope you're not actually a teacher.

I'm an AHP. I remember working with a new grad who had a large number of visible tattoos most of which were flowers but I will never forget the large and very visible Tweety Pie she had on her inner wrist. I've got 20+ years experience on her and it really made me reflect on all the times my hands and arms have been intimately involved with the care of my patients; sometimes in serious emergency situations (such as inserting airways) and others, many many more of these, where I have sat holding a patient's or relatives hand for comfort during pain, grief and death. I thought about how this new grad's hands will be doing the same things for the rest of her career and how a big yellow Tweety Pie will always be there during those moments too. It just seemed so incongruous.

Interesting to read so many replies from posters saying they wouldn’t mind. I'm trying to put myself in a patient's shoes wondering if I would mind. Depends on the setting and the tattoo I suppose.

Doctors do not hanker to have their bodies marked on the whole because they combine intelligence with a desire to exude an air of high status.

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This whole post is one of the funniest things I have ever read, anywhere.

My friend's partner, a high ranking consultant in charge of a department at a major hospital, certainly doesn't exude a wish to be seen as high status. He exudes competence, compassion and approachability which is far more relevant to his field of neo-natal. I have absolutely no idea if he has tattoos but my friend does and I have never seen any indication that he even considers them when telling people what a wonderful and intelligent woman he is lucky to be with.

Doesn't bother me in the slightest Op