Artificial nail question about healthcare workers?

I work in a patient care setting in a doctor's office and was wondering if there are any types of artificial nails that would be allowed in a healthcare setting? I had acrylic nails and just let them grow out and had them taken off due to policies at the office but my real nails are so thin and brittle (have been all my life) and I need the extra thickness. My fingernails just hurt when I leave work. They are so thin when I pump up blood pressure cuffs my nails literally bend backwards and break down below the nail surface. What should I do???Artificial nail question about healthcare workers?
Even the World Health Organization guidelines on hand hygiene state that wearing artificial acrylic nails can contribute to hands remaining contaminated with pathogens after use of soap or alcohol-based hand gels.[8] 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. All nurses, not just those who care for perioperative patients or others at high risk for infection, should be guided by their conscience and the research data that suggest that both artificial nails and even nail polish can put patients at risk.Artificial nail question about healthcare workers?
There use to be a rule years ago that we could not have long fingernails, no polish and no rings except for our wedding bands. All this has changed. I see nurses now with long fingernails, all polished up ( the acrylic ones too). rings on every finger. You could get a short version of the acrylic nails . Since everyone wears gloves now you don't have to be afraid of getting something under your fingernails either.
It is wonderful to have long, pretty nails. I am sure you must have been told in nursing school that you must keep your nails short. This will definitely help them from bending backwards. There are nail products that would make your nails stronger. Personally long nails of any kind sound very unclean and a place to germs to grow and to be past to patients. I am sure patients do not appreciate that.
You can't, I have that problem too. So, every night or other night you can polish on nail hardener/strength. There are many brands, Sally Hansen has a few good ones.





And maybe you can try taking some Gelatin capsules, or Biotin (Apearex?), find it in the vitamin aisle, the pharm may have to special order it.
They sell some stuff at Walmart or anywhere for that matter probably, by Sally Hanson and it has Vitamin E in it. Its in a clear bottle but its green liquid. It works really well in strenghing your nails. Yeah, you don't want to wear fake nails in the healthcare field and get all that bacteria under them. Your fingers might rot off!