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- Title
Tattoo or no tattoo? A contemporary ethical issue in nursing education.
- Authors
Caldeira, Sílvia; Lourenço, Margarida; Vidal, Teresa; Figueiredo, Amé lia Simões
- Abstract
The article discusses the contemporary ethical issue in nursing education in reference with the article "We are all naked underneath our clothes" in which a nursing student using a visible tattoo in her left arm asked the teacher to not cover it. It mentions that students shared that the tattoo was a symbol of protection and she felt better. It also mentions the data informing decisions to ask nursing students to cover their tattoos.
- Subjects
COMMUNICATION; DISCRIMINATION (Sociology); NURSE-patient relationships; NURSING education; NURSING career counseling; NURSING students; OCCUPATIONAL prestige; SIGNS &; symbols; STEREOTYPES; TATTOOING
- Publication
Nursing Ethics, 2017, Vol 24, Issue 5, p626
- ISSN
0969-7330
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0969733016679472