I am guessing that the reason why the rule about nails isn’t enforced where @chyna works is that since health care is chronically short staffed, especially now, the last thing they want to do is send people home because they’re violating a nail rule. Also, the nail rule is probably difficult to enforce, unless the boss lines the workers up first thing and inspects them, otherwise, the nurses start working, bosses are busy, who has time for dealing with nails. Whereas in the college, where my friend is the professor, working with students in Clinical on the hospital floor, if at any time she sees they’re violating the rules, she just sends them home and it’s on the student because they’re not getting the required hours and then their graduation may be postponed. No biggie to the professor.
I know she had also mentioned that the students are not allowed to wear hats or any head covering, and it’s a State rule. She said if the state inspectors come in and find the rules violated, the state can shut the school down or fine them, so the professors have to enforce the rules.