Nursing Hair Care, Hair Products, And Hair Styles For Longer Hair | Grwm Nursing

This is the earth register nurse Orion, calm and in this video I want to talk about hair. So on my channel, I get a lot of questions about my hair. I have people who ask me, you know they're, like Sara. How do you care for your hair as a nurse? What are some hairstyles? You can recommend, because I have long hair or what products you use and also why you have your hair so long. So in this video I want to answer those questions, so let me start with the easy question. First, why is my hair so long? Well, the answer to that is very simple. It'S because I like it and throughout my life, I've had various lengths of hair, and I just found that this length works for me. I can throw it up and I'm ready to go and plus my husband. This is his actual favorite length of my hair, so it all wins, it wins for him wins for me and we're all good next. How do I care for my hair as a nurse? Well, as a nurse during your shifts, you're gon na come into contact with some nasty stuff, even if your hair isn't sweeping into stuff just patients, coughing and sneezing, all those little droplets floating around and landed on your hair. You want to get home and you want to get that out of your hair, because if you go straight and lay on your pillow or something like that, you're gon na get germs everywhere. So what I like to do is I like to come home and I take my shoes off put them in their own little bag, because shoes are nasty and then I take my scrubs put them in their own pile way from my regular clothes and everyone else's Laundry and then I hop into the shower and take a hot shower, wash my hair and I use lots of shampoo and if I wash my hair, my husband's like ma'am, we just bought shampoo. You bought more like yes, because I use a lot of it cuz. I have a lot of hair to wash so I do that and I like to always take a shower before like that night before my shift. So I can sleep and it just makes things easier on me because I, like my sleep, because if I don't get my sleep, I get a little bit grouchy, so I get to sleep longer and it just works out good. So now, let's talk about the products. I use in my hair really it's quite simple. I use a shampoo and conditioner and randomly I may use some like hair spray or like glossing spray for my hair, if I have like a little stray hairs flying in the wind. So what I like to do is I like to change what brands I use over time like for six months, might use this type of shampoo and I want to switch it up and try something else now. Currently, what I'm using is the Pantene pro-v line and if you and all these products I'm going over, if you want to know about them, there's a link in the YouTube description and it'll. Take you to my website and you can see about these products. But I like Pantene pro-v, it's great stuff, I'm currently using smooth and sleek shampoo and conditioner and depending on, if it what season it is like right now we're in winter my hair tends to be a little bit more frizzy. So I got the kind that fights frizz for 48 hours works pretty good now, sometimes during the summer, especially I like to use Aussie, and this is great for sometimes I get the volume kind to get my hair more volume if it's really just struggling and being Flat so that helps volumize it, and this is the awesomely clean, shampoo and also use the conditioner. I don't have the conditioner with me, and it's great stuff then sometimes is to help those pieces of hair that are flying around, especially whenever I'm styling my hair, putting it up. I use Garnier, Fructis, sleek and shine brilliant shine, glossing spray. This is good stuff, but you need to use it sparingly because if you spray too much make your hair look really Oly and look like you haven't really washed in a while. So those are the products that I use so now, let's talk about choosing a nursing, hairstyle, okay, nurses work in a variety of settings and, depending on what setting you work, you'll probably have to be a little bit more strict with your hair compared to if you're Working a little bit more of a non direct patient care setting like a nurse researcher or educator, or something like that compared to a nurse who's on the floor 12 hours working side-by-side with that patient, because if you have shoulder length, hair or long hair like mine Or hair that gets into your face, it can be a hazard to you or your patient. So here are some things that you want to keep in mind. So first say that you have really long bangs or your hair tends to get over into your face. You'Re constantly having to put it behind your ears, because it's coming over into your face, you want to make sure that you secure it. So you can have your vision, because you know, if you're doing like a Foley catheter insertion on a female or you're trying to do something. You don't want your hair to sweep over your face and you can't see. What'S going on, you stick something else when you're supposed to stick this, so you always want to keep it nice and secured to your head next. If your hair is really long like mine, this is a hazard to you, because what can happen is that your hair right, whenever you pull that bad pan out from that patient who just had a bowel movement, your hair, will sweep over your shoulder. You'Re, probably dangled down in through the bedpan or whenever you're doing a sterile dressing change, or something like that. You don't want it just sweeping over your shoulder contaminating the film. Then you have to set up all over again, so you want to be sure that you secure your hair, that it's off your shoulders and that it's up, and another thing you want to consider - is that your long hair can become pulled. If you have a patient who is confused, they can grab ahold of your hair and pull you down in their bed or a combative patient. It can injure you or hurt you also your hair. It can get caught on equipment and there's nothing like being in a coat situation. You'Re trying to get the patient in position put in the head, the bed down and your hair gets caught on an IV pole or something like that. So you want to really take care to keep that hair pulled back. So, due to all those reasons I just listed, I like to wear my hair depending on what type of mood I'm in and what I'm doing, either in like a high bun, a low, bun or braided, and let me show you what those Styles look like. Okay, so these hairstyles I want to show are very simple and very practical, because I like to do the easiest thing I can to get out the door okay. So what supplies I use, of course, is a hairbrush and I like to use bobby pins just to collect those stray hairs and some hair ties and a clip for reinforcement. So, first what I do is obviously brush my hair. I get all the tangles out of it and brush it up really good, and first thing I like to do is because I like to do a pouf in the front, so I'm just going to sort of comb it out like this. Just take a little bit of it like that, and then I twist it and then I sort of push it to the front just to give a little bit of a little extra Ness here and then I take a bobby pin and pin it okay. So I have that now I just take it and pull it up as high as I can go now. Some things I've learned, don't go to high because if you go too hot and it sets on top of your head all day after 12-hour shift a real bad headache, so I take it and then I twists it around do a pretty good twist, because I don't Want this to fall, and then I push it down with my hand and take a hair tie and already have the hair tie on my wrist. So it's easy to grab and just take it and put it around now I'll. Take this extra hair tie with me to work, because you never know when these things just pop open, just be walking down the hall and they just explode off your head. I'Ve had that happen before, and then I like to take a clip and just put it right here, just to give it a little extra security and then that's the high bone, and it literally took me what a minute and then sometimes I get these little sprigs Of hair and I like to take a bobby, pin and just put it right there and then do the other side and then we're ready to go now quickly. Let me show you, the low bun and I like to wear that. If my head's been hurting - and I don't want it up high - so what you do with that super easy just take your hair back like that, take it and just twist it like so and then just sort wrapping it around and then take your hair tie. Put it like that, and then I take that clip and put it so it's good to go and then, of course, with the bobby pins. Just do the same thing. If you have your hair that likes to stick out - and I like to take that glossing that I showed you our hairspray and if your hair sticking up really bad, you can just take it and just smooth it out, so you don't have stray hairs everywhere and, Lastly, I'm going to show you how to do the braid - and I like to do this - if I'm not working in like those direct patient care settings where I'm going to be in contact precautions and messing with lots of body fluids, suctioning and things like that. So how I like to do this is of course I like to do the little post thing in the middle, and I do that again. That'S one of my favorite things right now so get your bobby pin. Then what I like to do is to take it up like in a ponytail it first, so pretty much as high as you can get it, where you feel comfortable and get your hair tie and then what I want to do is I take the hair over And I just write it super easy and this in second grade my hair gets hopes at home, and I thought I really pull on it, so I can make a tight braid now. One thing is, after a long shift: your hair gets a little tethered from where the braid starts coming apart a little bit so you might may have to braid it sometime and I like to leave just a little bit of hair up and then I'm ready to Go okay, so those are some nursing hair care tips. Thank you so much for watching and don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more videos.