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!

^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.^

Let them go to the back of the queue and suffer while these perfectly capable but tattooed medical professionals treat other patients then.

So nurses were just too thick to be doctors? Wow.

As long as a nurse is caring and sympathetic and does the job with the patient at heart i dont care about tattoos. The most loving caring people i know have them and the cruelest people ive met have none so you really cant judge a person by ink alone.

I don't like tattoos or body art in general but I wouldn't think anything of it if I saw it on a nurse unless it was something offensive - think swear words etc. It's a matter of preference, I'm really not keen on all the jeans I see people wearing atm but I don't dwell on it beyond that, each to their own and it wouldn't form my opinion of you.

ripped jeans that should say, I don't have problem with normal jeans!

Would you be put off by a tattooed nurse?

Not put off - I might think (briefly) that when you are my age, the tattoos will be all blurry & not very nice, but I might not pay your arms any attention at all.

But I am put off by those piercings in ear lobes that enlarge the hole in the skin, and those nose & mouth/chin piercings that are big & clunky. Shaped like small tusks.

Even typing that sentence makes me feel nauseous. There's a shop on my high street I would like to shop at, but at certain times the main staff person there has these kinds of body-altering piercings and I have to leave.

It's my response due to a very very bad experience of having my ears pierced. I take responsibility for it, but if a nurse had those kinds of piercings, I'd have to look away. Which could be awkward.

Nurses do not have the same high status as doctors do. Simple.

I had better tell my friend then with all her degrees and qualifications and 30 years experience in MH care whom the doctors deferr to on her ward that she is not intelligent enough to be a doctor. Or did you deliberately ignore that post cos it doesnt fit in with your "drs are gods" mindset?

I chose to be a nurse for a number of personal reasons none of them were that I didnt think I was 'clever enough' to be a doctor. I didnt want to be a doctor, I wanted to be hands on with peoples care, getting to know them, making their day to day life as good as possible. Oh and some of the best nurses and HCA I have worked with were males, they didnt want to be doctors either, but could have easily have been.

GTF with your outdated misoynist crap. Drs couldnt function without nurses could they? Never seen a doctor do a dressing, change a catheter bag, sit holding a patients hand as they died, clean up sick, shit, urine, take bloods as well as a nurse phlebotanist, explain how to care for a stoma, do a patients make up to make them feel better about themselves (thier choice) bed bath a patient the list is endless. All these things done with care and dignity for the patient, treating the whole patient not just the condition are what nurses do on a daily basis.

(Nothing against Drs btw I have known some great ones over the years but I have also known some arses who are far up their own arse and not a brilliante as they think they are)

@Tansie1 That comment was a very useful addition to the discussion on this thread, well done.

The level of debate in recent posts speaks volumes.

Irony is alive and well today.

In terms of the actual question, I would be absolutely fine with a tattooed professional anywhere.

Secondly, I love this idea that doctors wouldn’t have tattoos because they’re ‘too intelligent’ - my experience is the complete opposite.

Only one of my tattoos is visible day to day. The other three are in discreet places so generally the only people outside of immediate family that ever see them are doctors and nurses. I have had many conversations about them whilst having treatments and procedures.

I have never once felt judged by a doctor or nurse with regards my tattoos. Instead they have all seem fascinated by the stories they tell about me and I know my main consultant in particular has added to my notes because of them.

I think we can all offer the same back by not judging a nurse or doctor if they have chosen to have tattoos themselves.

Some people choose to be nurses rather than doctors? I’m afraid I do not believe that for a second.
Doctors are waaaaaassy better paid, for a start. There is also the status attached to being a doctor. It’s a no brainer, really.

...waaaaaasay better paid...

Grrrrr

....waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

Any doctors here right now to tell why they made the decision to be better paid and have higher status?
( Or are they too busy to be posting on a public forum?)

Obviously you weren't one of the brilliant few who were able to become doctors, or you could have enlightened us 🙄

Rose aren’t you a teaching assistant?

Rose

Awww you are so cute trying to be so clever.
As my mum used to say "You are never so stupid as when you are trying to be a smart arse."

Nobody actually cares if you believe it or not, someone who is so lacking in the ability to believe anything but their version of things is not someone whos approval I would seek.

Funny how all the actual nurses on here who disagree with you are all wrong? Maybe we are not as shallow as you and dont seek 'status' whatever the freak that is in your world. The actual action of looking after someone who is needing hospital, residential, nursing home, home care and knowing you made a difffernce to that persons life is 'status' enough thanks. Much more rewarding than having the likes of you fawning over Drs like they were gods. My cousin is a Dr and doesnt do it for the 'status', wonder if I should tell him he is doing it all wrong? He does it cos he wants to help others, not lord over them.

I see a consultant regularly, a nicer man you couldnt wish to meet. Never has came over as a know it all, never patronising unlike some on here and has a sense of humour too. A real down to earth person just like my Gps that I have known for 30 years are (and having worked in a professional capacity with them I know they dont act any differently on wards either) Dont know where you find your doctors but glad they aint mine.

Why aren't you a teacher, then Rose? Who would choose to be a teaching assistant instead as us teachers are waaaaaaay better paid?

There is also the status attached to being a doctor

You do know other people aren’t as obsessed by status as you are?

A teaching assistant? Ahaha. Why not choose to a teacher?

I had an (amicable) argument with a consultant once who asked me why I wasn't doing medicine as I was clearly intelligent enough. After asking why he didn't want intelligent nurses, I pointed out that for someone on a low income with three children, doing the medicine degree and then junior doctors rotation was almost impossible, while the Nursing degree course is just difficult!

These days you can go very far in nursing if that is what you want. Shame the pay never seems to catch up, I've worked with an advanced practice nurse who was basically being a GP on half the pay.

I love how you ignored all the rest of my post yet again Rose.
Do your amazing drs do any of the things I mentioned?

Who the hell would do it if it wasnt for nurses?

What's with all this talk of status? I didn't realise that people still thought that way - when I visit the doctor I don't defer to him because of his status, we're equal partners in decisions about my health. I'm not more lowly because I've followed a different profession!

Rose you are being an absolute —— muppet. Stop it and behave yourself.

No problems whatsoever