Can I have dyed hair if I want to get into a medical profession?

Your hair style and color may both be a problem.

The healthcare industry generally expects all personnel who have direct patient contact to present a conservative, professional appearance. That's everyone from doctors and nurses to medical technicians to the cafeteria line and front office staff.

Due to a chronic medical condition, I'm a regular visitor at my local hospital. The only folks there with wild hairstyles, unnatural hair color, visible tattoos, etc. are the janitorial staff. Treatment professionals all have their hair pulled back in a bun or covered by a suitable cap or hairnet.

If you want to go "wild," use washable color on your off-duty time but stick with a natural color on the job.

And although you didn't mention it, skip the tats entirely. Many medical and nursing schools will not accept you if you ever had a tattoo, even if it has been removed, and will kick you out if you get one. That's because of the chance of contracting a communicable disease when getting a tattoo. A friend who is a retired nurse and nursing school professor explained it thus, "People get infections at hospitals every day, and I've never seen a tattoo parlor that was cleaner than a hospital."

While there is law that says you cannot have dyed hair, in reality, since you are going to be interacting with many different members of the public, your hair color will be taken into account. Your color and style is a bit less conservative than many health care providers would like to see and may limit your job choices.

The loose hair will be a larger problem than the color. Your appearance will make a difference, and make you stand out, but not in a positive way. It makes you look like a child. You may need to wear a hair net, pull it back, out of the way - in most jobs, especially in customer-facing healthcare jobs.

No one who hires will tell you to your face, but coming to a job interview with oddly colored hair (green/purple ect) will drastically hurt your chances of getting hired in ANY field, not just medical. Same thing with visible, excessive tattoos. Hospitals these days are usually for profit corporations and appearances matter in the business world.

It's not PC to say it out loud but it is offensive to a lot of people and gives the impression that you aren't very dependable or stable.

Hell no. The idea is that you are a professional, and green hair does NOT equate prof.

Hair color should be natural, green hair is definitely a problem. When I was about to go on my clinical internships our professor went over many rules with us and one was that was needed to have "natural" colored hair.. as in brown, blonde, black, red (NOT firetruck red). Think about it.. if you were interviewing someone, for any job, would you hire the girl with green hair or brown natural hair...

https://www.hairvivi.com/

If we're talking blond, no big deal. If we're talking blue...get away from professional careers.

Go work where you don't deal with the public...that's how you get away with non-traditional hair (or anything for that matter).