[Crux1024]

Originally Posted by Tweety

I had a patient tell me he just masturbated and the ejaculate was very hot "what does that mean?".

why OH WHY, am I reading on the Male Nursing Forum....LOL

[Tweety]

Originally Posted by Crux1024

why OH WHY, am I reading on the Male Nursing Forum....LOL

I don't read the OB forum, any other thread, and there are plenty about menapause, PMS or other "female" topics. No need to go there.

[postmortem_cowboy]

I wholeheartedly agree. I've had male patients that would totally open up about their concerns and also have had female patients that wouldn't.

Case in point, one night I took a M/S shift, had a post op patient X24 hours for a hip. I'd gone in to do my H2T assessment when he pipes up "I need to tell you something that I didn't feel comfortable telling the female nurse from days." Well it ended up being he was bleeding away from the opsite and into his groinal area (I think I invented a new word there) and his testicles were really swollen and black from the seepage of blood into the area. Now, as a guy, yes it's much easier when it's something like that, but if it's having your tonsils out, nah, shouldn't make a difference. When I was an EMT I had a male patient uhm... how do I put this couthly "stroke his thing" in the back of the ambulance. Now i'd told him to stop on several occasions, but due to the fact that the guy was mentally not there, he just kept going, even my attempts (gloved at that point) to stop him went unnoticed and he disregarded it until he was satisfied with the job he'd done and the outcome (sorry punn wasn't intended) he'd wanted to achieve.

It's human nature though to be more comfortable about things of a more personal nature with same sex. And yes i've gotten that look after being called "doctor" and corrected the patient/family that "i'm his/her/your nurse" of oh... he's gay... and just for the record, no i'm not. And that's another complaint of mine, what does being gay have to do with being a nurse anyhow? like that means something? Like gay people are only nurses, they can't be construction workers or drive dump trucks or something, but a guy is a nurse and the wheels churn... "he's gay"... preposterous!!!! People watch too much damn TV. I've also on the other side of the fence had female patients that requested me in particularly simply because I was a man. And even for catheterizations. I had a post op female one night that was in for hemorrhoid surgery, and she'd had a straight cath PRN, ended up cathing her like 5 times in one shift. The next night she was still there and not able to push on her own, and she'd asked the female nurse especially for me if I was on shift. So it goes both ways. (punn not intended)


Wayne.

[gitterbug]

Cowboy,
The nurse on days was off on her assessments by a mile. Bleeding into the scrotal area is not uncommon after a hip pinning, the patient should have been asked and checked for discomfort. His scrotal area elevated on rolled towel and ice applied prn. An assessment is an assessment, head to toe, but most especially in ortho procedures.

[postmortem_cowboy]

Alot of things "should have" happend, but didn't, the story I told was to illustrate that male patients don't necessarily speak to female nurses in regards to these types of things.


Wayne.

[Ruby Vee]

Originally Posted by Tweety

I had a patient tell me he just masturbated and the ejaculate was very hot "what does that mean?". Nope don't think he told that to a female (and he didn't use those terms either)

Not only did he probably TELL your female colleagues about that, he may have demonstrated (or attempted to) as well. I think that's less a request for information than a desire to shock you or make you uncomfortable. Did it work?

[Tweety]

Originally Posted by Ruby Vee

Not only did he probably TELL your female colleagues about that, he may have demonstrated (or attempted to) as well. I think that's less a request for information than a desire to shock you or make you uncomfortable. Did it work?

No. He was dead serious......believe it or not. He seriously wanted to know if it was a bad sign to have hot semen because it never was that way before. Seriously.

Guess that's another good thing about being a male nurse...men don't deliberately expose themselves in a sexual (so they think) manner, or deliberately try to make us uncomfortable the way they do with females.

[postmortem_cowboy]

Should have told him to get his testicles out of the boiling pot of water and that might help.


Wayne.

[gitterbug]

Ruby,
I guess we have to take the male POV as gospel on this one.

[gitterbug]

Cowboy,
My point was IF the previous nurse had done an adequate assessment, this man may have been spared a great deal of discomfort. I know "Should Have's" happened everyday in actual practice. I myself am guilty, but I really do hope this is not a regular occurance on this ortho floor.