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F. Dress Code
• We honor every member of the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing community and commit to treating one another with respect. We are all colleagues dedicated to performing our jobs in a courteous and professional manner. • We treat our students with dignity and respect, recognizing their important contribution to the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing and their important role as our representatives to the community at large. • We maintain integrity and courtesy in our dealings with fellow members of the Tan
Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing community, and with individuals from the broader community with whom we interact. • Communication, cooperation and teamwork are key as we work together to achieve the common goal of providing excellence in health sciences education, research and public service. • We appreciate the diversity of the people who work, volunteer, study, and visit at the Tan
Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing and value the strength and richness that such diversity brings to our organization. We also seek to educate and enlighten our community on issues of diversity to help advance respect for individual differences, rights and beliefs. • Our objective is to create a community that respects everyone’s worth and rights.
Accordingly, all members of our organization must understand and dedicate themselves to the value of civility. We dedicate ourselves to fostering an environment that recognizes our interdependence as human beings, in an organization striving to achieve national distinction in health sciences education, research and public service.
F. DRESS CODE
Students are asked to remember that our campus shares space with a major medical center and those patients may see them at any time. Therefore, students are asked to always use judgment in selecting clothing and to avoid clothing that is ripped, revealing, or which displays slogans or images that could be offensive to patients or colleagues. Students are required to abide by all policies of the hospital or clinical system in which they are rotating or in which they are doing research involving patient contact.
Students are expected to dress in a manner which is appropriate for their work or classroom environment. As part of professional appearance, students are expected to be generally well groomed. Students should attend to personal grooming. Body piercing and tattoos should not be visible. Earrings should be limited to one stud in each ear lobe. Artificial nails are not permitted. Do not wear perfumes and colognes. Male facial hair should be sufficiently trimmed.
Students in the GEP Year are expected to wear the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing student uniform in inpatient clinical settings unless another mode of dress is identified by faculty as more appropriate for the setting. The uniform is: • Navy Blue scrub pants • Khaki scrub top with the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing logo patch on the left sleeve • Navy Blue scrub jacket with the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing logo patch on the left sleeve
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