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!

This is an issue like those of which Thomas Hardy wrote when he said, ‘ what everyone thinks but nobody says.’

Eh well, you can bore off, Teacher22 and so can Thomas Hardy (whose books were dreadful, by the way). You don't get to speak on behalf of anyone else. You're entitled to have your opinion, but not to pin it on anyone else.

In my line of work all visible tattoos have to be camouflaged up.

We have one girl who has to spend an hour sorting out a swirly thing on her foot. She said it takes three times longer than her face

Interestingly I have found my tattoos to be helpful, to be fair you can't see most of them in uniform but I do have my upper arms tattooed which occasionally poke out if I'm doing something physical. I have found they can be an ice breaker, a topic of conversation which can help to put patients at ease and distract them from the situation they are in.

Trust policy is visible tattoos should not be offensive. Although obviously this must vary between trusts.
I also wear makeup as nobody who is unwell should have to gaze upon my unmade up face, that's just not conducive to healing.

I find patients care about whether I am kind, professional, knowledgeable, caring, treat them with dignity and respect not what I look like.

Honestly, I don't care. If she's good at her job why would you be bothered?

Love and hate inked on knuckles is the same difference as a sweeeeet little butterfly. Face it.

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 completely agree.

Teacher22

Good post generally.

Golly I’d be disappointed in a holiday abroad if it was dull enough that I actually noticed things like that.

Teacher's post made me too.

This is the thread that keeps on giving.

If you really love tattoos so much, why would you not go the whole hog?

Why - if you are a suit - would you wish to have areas left ink free?

Why would you not want people to know about your love of tattoos?

What is the point of covering them up?

Oh, and are any of the fans out there on Mumsnet who are actually addicted to tattoos?

Questions questions...

Correction:

...Oh, and are any of the fans out there on Mumsnet actually addicted to tattoos?

I think certain jobs make you cover it up (my brothers did) and my sister once applied for a job that said any visible tattoos would need to be covered up. Wouldn’t bother me though.

'High status' my backside.

My friend is a highly qualified and experienced mhn in charge of an acute ward with highly aggressive acutely ill people sometimes on drugs and alcohol too.

She is the one doctors ask regarding her patients meds needs as she knows more about them than some junior dr on psychi rotation.

She is the one along with her staff who instructs drs in how to deal with aggressive patients who are attacking staff.
The junior drs come very low in the chain in her area of expertise.

This isnt 30 years ago when drs were treated like gods who were above question. Now they are part of a team and i dont know any drs who think they are above anyone else in that team. I have had many drs asking me what is best for my patients, asking if i can do x,y,z for them as i can do it better than them. Mutual respect and teamwork makes for better care all round.

I wouldn't be put off my a tattooed nurse.

I don't want tattoos myself but what others do is up to them. Why should it bother me?

at high status doctors. Has anyone told them that? Think some people on here live in a fantasy world of James Robertson Justice (Sir Lancelot Spratt) characters. Loads of docs have tats.

What is it about nurses on here? It’s like people think they’re public property. I honestly think people see nurses as semi skilled bum wipers who should be grateful for employment.

Rose
Use a bit of your grey matter for once.

People dont get tattoos for other peoples benefit. Where they have them is thier business. Why should they automatically want them everywhere on thier body?
What part of that is so hard to understsnd in your goady little world.

Your gonna wear yourself out turning round in circles like that to try to be so mych more clever than everyone else.

And if you cant tell the difference between words and pictures maybe you should see a 'high status' dr yourself?

@Teacher22

I'm sure you won't care what a sub-human tattooed degenerate like me thinks, but...

...you don't half talk some shite.

Nurses do not have the same high status as doctors do. Simple. For one thing, medical students are the cream of the student crop. Everybody knows that and there is absolutely no point in denying it. It makes you look silly to say the least.

They enter university not only with a fistful of top notch grades but having passed an Aptitude Test and gone through a rigorous interview process, too.

Their training takes 6 years and more. When they graduate, eventually, they certainly do have status within society generally.
The day that nurses have the same academic qualifications as doctors and the same level of academic training as doctors, is the day when they can sincerely say they are on an equal footing.

What’s that nonsense got to do with tattoos Rose? Ive heard you spouting off about about nurses on other threads.

The level of debate in recent posts speaks volumes. 🙄

I’ll tell my friend who is a nursing professor, PhD, MSc, science graduate from Cambridge, ex chief nurse who was on higher salary than consultants, that she is low status with crap qualifications.

The only places he has tattoo free skin is his hands, neck and private parts!

Ew.

If you really love tattoos so much, why would you not go the whole hog?

Because I've chosen the designs I like. There isn't some bizarre rule where if you like tattoos you have to have every inch of skin covered.

Why - if you are a suit - would you wish to have areas left ink free?

Because they don't like the look of tattoos in certain areas? I wouldn't get my right hand tattooed for example because I've got a scar from a burn on there that wouldn't cover well.

Why would you not want people to know about your love of tattoos?

I have no issue with people knowing

What is the point of covering them up?

I don't. Other than the ones covered by whatever I happen to be wearing.

Oh, and are any of the fans out there on Mumsnet who are actually addicted to tattoos?

Depends what you mean. I find getting tattoos very addictive; I love everything about the process. However of course it isn't an addiction in the true sense of the word.

When you are ill and just want to be made better you ain't going to say "no, I forbid you to treat me even though you are a highly qualified medical professional because your tattoos offend my ideas of good taste....."

But I bet there ARE some arses like that.....takes all sorts.

I think it is wise if you are young to avoid having tattoos that can not be covered up. Because some jobs and employers will discriminate against people with visible tattoos. So why limit your choices when young?

Rose - you do realise some people choose to be nurses over doctors?