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Background info: My ering is a three stone (pretty high setting) with 3 channel set stones on the sides, and my band is a row of 10 channel set stones. I am in occupational therapy at school, and there have not been any restrictions about the rings we wear at school, or at most of the fieldwork placement locations. My friend went to another city to do her last placement, and the staff there were not allowed to wear rings with high settings. Is this common across Canada? Is there anyone in Winnipeg in particular who could help me out with this? I would like to solder my rings together, but if this type of situation is common, I would rather be able to take off my ering and still wear my band while I'm working. (That would be allowed because the stones don't stick up.)
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I don't work in the health field, but my mom does. She's a nurse and is also only allowed to wear certain jewelry (very simple jewelry). I guess there are concerns about germs or bacteria getting lodged in intricate settings; something like that...
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| I'm a nurse, and so far I have not come across any restrictions as to what types of rings or jewellery you can wear on the units I have worked on. I see lots of girls with very high set rings. I guess it probably is unit/employer specific... sorry, that probably doesn't help much! I personally don't like to wear my ring to work, so I am getting a plain band that I can wear to work, and then I will wear it on my right hand when I wear my e-ring.
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| I am a nurse and I am not allowed to wear ANY jewellery below the elbows at work, so I have to pin my ring on my uniform. It depends on what area u work in. I work in a neonatal intensive care unit and we aren't allowed because metal holds bacteria on it like moths to a flame. If your patients aren't immunocompromised you should be allowed to wear it. Although, even if I was allowed I would be to scared of getting blood or body secretions on it.
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| From an infection control point of view, anything other than a plain, unengraved ring is just a haven for bugs. I worked for many years in hospitals (as an RT) and never wore any rings. In the NICU, we always had to remove all jewelry, watches etc. and in the ICU, the medical director harped on any women who wore their diamond rings to work, because of the infection risk. Fortunately for me I was out of the hospital when I got engaged, so I didn't have to figure out what to do there. Personally, I would have chosen to wear my ring on a necklace rather than on my hand for several reasons: to avoid getting it contaminated with bad bugs; to avoid becoming an infectious carrier to my patients; and, because of my high setting, it would have been difficult to wear gloves without the setting getting caught or ripping the glove. ETA: even on a necklace, you have to be careful as you bend over patients and it could rub on them or get caught...so, in all likelihood, I would have chosen not to wear my ring at work at all  I wouldn't trust a pin to hold my ring.
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I am RN in nova scotia and have worked in newfoundland, and we have that rule. The risk of injury to the patient, and yourself if it got caught in something, and the amount of germs that can attach to the ring makes them a no no.
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I'm an RN in Cardiology and we don't have rules about that, mainly because our usual patients are not immunocompromised. They just have a bad heart (literally speaking, of course).
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