emts and tattoos

usalsfyre said:
Of course they do, most people are looking for a cheerleading section for a marginal choice. If they were truly interested in what to do they would research a choice somewhere besides a message board where a bunch of no life EMS geeks hang out:wacko:.
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LMAO! +1 :lol:

I'm covered in ink and have held positions in management in a number of industries over the past 16 years. I always made sure I didn't get anything that showed with long sleeves and a non-turtlenecked shirt. Never had an issue, and don't now in EMS. I just keep them covered. Simple.
 
Sandog said:
Well hold on there, I have a tat of a grim reaper wearing a Navy dixie cup hat and I am sure I am no idiot. I actually got my tattoos long before they were popular. Then again my tats are on my upper arms so I can easily conceal them.
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Yours easily concealed so that does not apply to my point. My point are the people that gripe that they have to cover their tats of the grim reaper are idiots. If someone sees you with death on your forearm, back of hand or other exposed area, not going to comfort the family members of the person you are working a code on. Honestly would offend and even possibly scare the more superstitious patients.
 
What I wonder is what is going to happen when long sleeves get banned in the name of infection control.
 
Aidey said:
What I wonder is what is going to happen when long sleeves get banned in the name of infection control.
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I guess then doctors will not be able to wear the lab coats and ties no more. Oh thats right many of them have already stopped because of infection concerns.

I guess better hope you have a job that allows tats if and when that occurs.
 
well as the original poster aka me, the question was if they were acceptable or not and if long sleeve clothing would resolve the issue if it were present..... also i already have one that would be exposed with short sleeves regardless, so if i would need to cover that one what would a full sleeve tattoo matter, as was stated i guess i would just have to ask the proper person when the time comes because there are mixed answers here. was just looking for a heads up on what goes on in the industry in other areas, if you want to be a jackleg about everything when someone is just trying to get some info then just shut up and go read your playgirl or something
 
and thanks everyone for the information that was actually pertaining to the specific question that was asked
 
nevets_eural said:
and thanks everyone for the information that was actually pertaining to the specific question that was asked
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Your very welcome happy to provide you information you really do not want anytime.
 
nevets_eural said:
just shut up and go read your playgirl or something
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I guess you're implying that anyone who provided an answer you didn't like is a gay man (as if that's an insult?)

or maybe you're trying to insinuate that those people are all women who like porn? (as if that's an insult?)

I think you'll be a real credit to the field of EMS.
 
no no everything was mostly informative, weather it was ok as long as you do this or i probably wouldnt do it because of this reason.. just could have done without the smartalek stuff
 
everyone talks of being professional well how about being abit yourself in a forum where someone is just asking a simple question
 
If you are accusing me of being a smartalek with my comment about long sleeves being banned, I was being serious. As Medic417 pointed out, lab coats and ties are going away because they have been found to collect and spread bacteria. More and more hospitals are being held responsible for any infection a patient develops, meaning that they have to pay for it themselves. Eventually the rules facilities institute to stop infections will trickle down to the field, and I would not be surprised to see long sleeves be banned.

So, in short. If you don't already have sleeves, don't get them because you don't know what is going to happen in a few years.
 
Aidey said:
If you are accusing me of being a smartalek with my comment about long sleeves being banned, I was being serious. As Medic417 pointed out, lab coats and ties are going away because they have been found to collect and spread bacteria. More and more hospitals are being held responsible for any infection a patient develops, meaning that they have to pay for it themselves. Eventually the rules facilities institute to stop infections will trickle down to the field, and I would not be surprised to see long sleeves be banned.

So, in short. If you don't already have sleeves, don't get them because you don't know what is going to happen in a few years.
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Eh, I'm not sure that long sleeves will disappear in the field simply because of the environmental conditions involved. I think it's pretty hard to ask a provider to wear short sleeves in the dead of winter and still focus on patient care and not about how damn cold it is.
 
Nevets...

I would worry about getting through basic school for right now. There are thousands of EMS workers with ink, and no new policy is going to appear within the few months you are trying to acquire your license.

As far as my school was concerned, if we had tats below our short sleeve clinical shirts, you HAD to cover them. Their concern was mostly for geriatric patients we would be coming in contact with. Although ultimatly it was up to the service or ER we were doing our rotations with. If our image wasnt clean and crisp they had every right to send us home. I've got ink on my wrists and forarms, nothing crazy, and I had no prob covering them with a white underarmer shirt.

Good Luck!
 
No problems with tattoos here. I'd like to get a sleeve, eventually... Have to wait until I'm hired at a service/munincipality that allows it, or until I graduate law school...
 
I havn't read all of the replies here but the best thing I can tell you to do is if your serious about getting into EMS then call the places that you would like to work for once you get licensed and simply ask what kind of rules they practice for tattoos.

For instance I have a half sleeve on my right arm that sticks out fairly far past my sleeve on a short sleeve shirt and when I did my ride alongs with a private ambulance service I had one of the supervisors come up to me and check it out and he thought it was pretty cool and said he was trying to decide what he wanted to get down his arm. With that said they had no rules on tattoos as long as it wasn't anything vulgar.

I think generally as long as you are getting something that doesn't scream out disrespect or hate then you will be fine with whatever you get but again just call where you are planning on working for and ask before hand.

Oh and by the way I'm getting another half sleeve started in a few weeks haha stuff addicting.
 
Frozennoodle said:
Eh, I'm not sure that long sleeves will disappear in the field simply because of the environmental conditions involved. I think it's pretty hard to ask a provider to wear short sleeves in the dead of winter and still focus on patient care and not about how damn cold it is.
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Yeah, I agree. I can't imagine someone doing a hypothermia call in -10 degree weather while wearing short sleeves, although it would be slightly funny to have the hypothermia calls building up as each team sent to the scene succumbs.
 
emtstudent25 thanks for the reply.... thats what a reply is supposed to be like, im not planning on getting it untill after school starts anyway so i will have time to discuss it with my teacher and see about what the policys are in my area, north east texas is where im from, so i will see around the dallas area and as always thanks everyone else for the info
 
Sorry to dig up an old topic, but I felt there some helpful comments on this one and figured I'd try and not repeat a post.

I do have tattoos and I plan on getting more. My question isn't about which tattoos are appropriate or not, but what to do when they're healing? Anyone with ink knows that tattoos peel and itch like crazy after the first few weeks. I would think that might be an issue in a medical environment. I recall wearing a long-sleeve shirt, but peeled skin would actually build up in the sleeves and sometimes I would have to take a break and dump my sleeve contents into a trashbin (when I worked for Best Buy).

Generally they tell you not to put bandages and whatnot over the tattoos but might that be a good idea in this case? I'm not sure patients would appreciate getting dead skin and probably some moisturizing lotion on them. Is there a good way to help prevent that (other than just not getting tattoos).

Also: http://www.chiefsupply.com/Apparel,Uniforms/Accessories/TATJACKET

Anyone know someone that wears these? I've been eying these for awhile now...
 
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