Mental Health Nursing uniform for placement (female)?? Will a tattoo affect patients?
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Mental Health Nursing uniform for placement (female)?? Will a tattoo affect patients?
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Originally Posted by imcka
Thanks for your response. Mental health nurses aren't required to wear a uniform per se; as far as I'm aware they just wear their own clothes so I was wondering what other girls wear ( I would like to look professional). Hopefully as you say I won't have any problems! I think I may be overthinking things haha- thanks again!
I imagine you will have a variety of community and hospital placements, and all mental health nurses in hospitals that I have seen wear a standard nursing uniform, same as other hospital nurses. So you will definitely be wearing a uniform at least sometimes. There may be some variability with specialist inpatient units and other community settings, but I wouldn't know about that. You might get better responses i...
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