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Artificial nails should not be worn by health-care professionals, because they harbor pathogens. Health-care professionals should have short, clean, well-kept fingernails.
Now that we are professionals, whoâs going to discipline us about long fingernails, nail polish and artificial nails? In my numerous visits to several physician based infusion centers, I have seen nurses providing infusion care wearing artificial nails. One even used the tip of the nail length to thread (push) the catheter into the vein. (âfaintsâ) Indeed, nail care is part of personal grooming and not my concern.