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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.
Considering all of these recommendations and cautions about long fingernails, nail polish, and acrylic nails, the answer to your question regarding a colleague who still wears artificial nails might be summed up by suggesting that nurses refrain from such a practice in the interest of preventing healthcare-associated infection.