“I do know that my daughter and daughter-in-law are both nurses, and they would not be allowed by their employers to have those long, pink fingernails as shown in the “flipping off” picture. Especially for a NICU nurse.”
I saw that but then again the way professional nails are done these days maybe the rules have relaxed? I’ve been in doctor’s offices and seen this. The difference? Well these new nails are done on like car paint, when they are on they are on and can only be taken off by a nail stylist. Not like the old days when they could chip off everywhere. One nurse told me about her nails, the paint had been on for three months and I could see where her nails had grown but the paint remained.
The issue with nails is the dirt under them, not the polish. I scrubbed off my finger prints from doing a 3 minute scrub-in before work in NICU. For the same reason, we pinned our wedding rings to our scrubs. For all my years in NICU I can’t imagine a nurse doing this. Even the continuously screaming drug withdrawal babies where shown utmost compassion and patience. And when will people ever get a clue to not have photographic evidence of bad behavior?