Catalog Number : agkt1639
Title : Piercing through The Body Art Issues
Speaker : Kevin Troutman

Webplay Recording Date : 8-25-2009
Webplay Price : $ 150 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:

As tattoos, piercings and other forms of body art have become increasingly prevalent; is your hospital grappling with how to deal with this trend. Do your younger workers proudly display their body art, while the older workers have exhibited a variety of responses? Do you have some employees who are offended? Do you have others who have embraced the fad?

Do you know the reaction of your patients and their families? Providing care for an ever-aging population, many of whom are already frail and/or apprehensive, is important to your success. Where are you at with this issue?

Do you plan to implement a change in your dress code and grooming policy regards to all tattoos and piercings? Will you require all tattoos to be covered and piercings to be limited to earlobes? Your hospital will join a growing list of healthcare employers, and employers in general, who must address the increasing popularity of tattoos and piercings among employees. But will your proposed changes sparked vigorous debates among employees and even press coverage. In other words, body art, piercings and grooming standards may just become a sensitive subject.

Like it or not, traditional dress code and appearance standards are being challenged today more than ever. While employers still retain wide latitude, practical, social and legal factors are requiring more careful consideration of requests that might have been readily (and safely) dismissed several years ago. No matter how your hospital or clinic deals with these issues, applicable policies should be clearly stated in writing and readily available to all employees.

Target Audience:

• Healthcare HR
• Administrative Managers
• Department Directors
• Vice-Presidents

Webinar Objectives:

• Understand the increasing trend of employee self-expression with tattoos, piercings and other body modification
• Evaluate the potential impact on your business and determine the need for effective policies to address such employee self-expression
• Develop and implement effective policies to proactively address employee body art to maintain a professional workplace, without harming employee morale

Webinar Outline:

• Body art (tattoos and piercing) is increasingly popular
  • Statistics
  • What is body art?
• How this affects you, the employer
  • Some examples of recent cases (issues that employers have encountered)
  • Why employers’ have legitimate interests in developing policies regarding body art
  • Examples of employer policies to deal with body art
• Issues to consider in your workplace and how to effectively deal with employees’ body art
  • Consideration of clients, customers, coworkers, nature of business
  • Religious accommodation issues
  • Developing effective written policies

Contact Hours:

This course has been approved for 1.8 Iowa Nursing Contact Hours. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.