I believe we need a male nurses week

Gr8Dane · May 7, 2009

We soothe the beasts!

cherrybreeze, ADN, RN · May 7, 2009

My unit has no male nurses (our previous director used to be the sole male, but he's gone now), so "us girls" do all our own heavy lifting....now how do ya want to spin it? :bugeyes: :smokin:

Baloney Amputation, BSN, LPN, RN · May 7, 2009

Before he was my husband, that hot male nurse I used to work with would help talk the little old ladies under my care into eating. They liked the male attention. :) In trade, I got to do the lady partsl creams for some LOLs under his care who didn't want a man doing that and all urinary catheters (no sterile gloves in that facility in XL, all in M).

I think it's evened out for him, anyway!

steelcityrn, RN · May 7, 2009

I would like to one day work with a good male nurse, I just not have had the experience yet. The last male nurse I worked with, and I'm talking very recent, was fired for having numerous altercations with patients and families, the icing on the cake is he went after two elderly folks in a store, and the police were called.He has anger mng problems big time.But back to the subject, I do not feel male nurses should have their own nurses day/week.

TuTonka · May 7, 2009

Due to me being tall and ex-wt lifter who do you think the male nurses come to to help them lift? My pluming is NOT on the outside. 90 percent of the nurses (FE) would come to me to help lift. I finally started raising the bed to my level for lifting and suddenly after 10 or 15 years they realized that maybe I wasn't the person they should be asking and admitted to me that they had never looked at it quite that way before. They wanted someone who they knew they could count on to get the safest lift done with them. So the ones that kept asking me compromised and we adjusted the bed equally .... a little high for them and a LITTLE low for me,,,,You see it is really about team work. If you had experienced the trials and tribulations of male nurses in the early days of males in nursing from dr.s and Nursing schools themselves you would think twice before asking to be separated from the team for any reason.

TuTonka

tenexe · May 7, 2009

sorry have to take exception to this one. We all do the same job. What we need to have is a stop calling us "male" nurses week. I don't call my female counterparts female nurses.

feralnostalgia · May 7, 2009

my female CNA friend could snap me like a twig, haha. I sure hope nobody is expecting me to be stronger than the women, cause I'm not!

I am kinda hoping that my male-ness will help me avoid this "lateral violence" I keep hearing about, though...I'd be happy to be babied in that respect. :specs:

I'm young, but I'll lift your fat people if you don't eat me!

now this "combative family member" thing...I know some of ya'll ladies played sports, don't look at this geeky vegan to do the tackling...hospitals have security, don't they? what about blow-dart sedatives? rottweilers? please don't look at me to restrain some crazy family member.

drgnflydggr · May 7, 2009

Our Nurse's Week celebration at work consisted of what the mgt is spinning as a progressive dinner party. Basically, staff in all of the different areas of the hospital have to bring in food, (i.e. OR brings dessert, ER brings sides, Medical brings drinks, etc) and then, if we're lucky enough to get a break, we have to run around the hospital putting together a plate in the meager amount of time that we actually do have.

As for men and nursing, I've found that it goes both ways. I do get called on to apply the restraints to the unruly patients. I am always informed at the beginning of my shift that there's a, "big guy in 26, so if they call you down there, you need to hurry." But on the flip side, we are a team. If I get called in for some heavy lifting, there's another co-worker willing to step in and answer my call lights or run my ice waters. I think that it's important to work to our capabilities. There are women on my floor that are better at transferring large patients than I am. When they're not there, I step in. It has less to do with gender and more to do with physical capability. While our highest management is obviously lacking the appreciative spirit, it is, I am proud to say, alive and well on my floor.

hellerd2003, RN · May 7, 2009

Following this logic, we need a females in government week (since Hillary and Sarah Palin get grilled at a moment's notice, and Hillary is ridiculed simply because she has a brain, whereas Sarah is the great hope of the Republican party because she has none); we need a females in management week (since most management positions are held by males), and a female construction workers week (since more women are entering construction now than 30 years ago).

Seriously-- really? When does political correctness harm the true meaning of the week? We saw in the past couple of years Cinco de Mayo celebrations in which, while marching for Mexican pride, abused the U.S. flag. That created devisiveness rather than cohesion.

I'm hoping the OP was joking.

feralnostalgia · May 7, 2009

I'm hoping the OP was joking.

he said he was

and on the (completely off topic) note of cinco de mayo, I don't blame central and south american immigrants for being angry with the US government. it was our governments's trade policies (the Farm Bill and NAFTA if you want to get specific) that created the horrible economic conditions they're fleeing to begin with.

*backspaces through two paragraphs of ranting*

sometimes the people making a fuss aren't the ones being divisive.

~Mi Vida Loca~RN, ASN, RN · May 7, 2009

I can pack a punch better than a few of my male friends. I may be small in size compared to them, but I am strong and tough, Just ask them

TuTonka · May 7, 2009

sorry have to take exception to this one. We all do the same job. What we need to have is a stop calling us "male" nurses week. I don't call my female counterparts female nurses.

That was my point tenexe. There is no I in team or gender. However, I have heard many nurses regardless of gender make that distinction. My point in regards to Dr.s and Nursing School instructors....I will give you an example for that I have heard...1.) Dr. I don't know why a man would want to be a nurse. Why don't they become a Dr.? Instructor.... !.) A male nurse huh....Well he may think he's going to have an easy job, But I am going to see to it that he knows how hard it really is. This particular nursing student failed the course and dropped put of the program. That is just an example of what men went through in the beginning.