Are men not as neat as women nurses?

[LVN_Soon2Be]

So I'm a nursing student and my instructor today said "A man must have been teaching in the classroom! It's a mess!"

She also went on about how most male nurses are sloppy and messy.

I was like "really?"

When I worked as a CNA I would NEVER leave my rooms messy. I liked having nice and tidy rooms!

Do you think male nurses are messy?

[systoly]

i wouldn't get offended by that comment,

after all, it was made by a typical woman :) :)

seriously guys, those kind of comments aren't worth

anybodies time, but get used to them and just laugh

[nichefinder]

i sometimes leave a little mess in patient's rooms because I am not going to bend over to pick up every little dust off the ground to toss it into trash... but i guess that's not male-female thing. RNs are not house keepers. I don't do that

[exit96]

Total sexist crap! Kinda like "men can't multitask..." What?? As good or better than my female counterparts.....

[happyface27]

That really depends on the nurse, the way they were raised and such...

[Krzysztof]

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

At home, my husband is far neater than I am. At work, however, not so much. When we worked in the same ICU I noticed that other nurses were often picking up after him -- me included. I haven't worked with him in a decade, though, so maybe that's changed. As far as male nurses in general -- I've noticed that some NURSES are messy and some NURSES are neat. Gender doesn't have all that much to do with it.

[Mr Midwife, BSN, RN]

At home I'm definately not. I remember one of my tutors saying that it had been commented that I wasn't very tidy when doing my dressings with the old wrappers but I was better at the actual dressing than the female students.

I always try to clean my own labour room after I'm done so I know it been done properly as always finding a few old blood spots on beds or equipment if its been done by our domestics.

I was trained by an old dragon nurse who's in my first year training had me in 2 Sundays out of each month just to clean the ward and equipment so have had that drilled into me quite firmly!

[NurseCubby]

I've seen neat and clutter nurses of both genders... Your instructor is making generalized comments based on her perception of men, and possibly men in nursing. I'd just roll with it and suck up any indigation. Some women just don't welcome men into the profession and they make it known by their off handed remarks. Personally, I've had a very positive experience clinically since I've passed the boards, but during school it was sometimes another story.

[AMAC8487]

I'm a male nurse working ER trauma and cvicu. I wouldn't coin it as "messy" however I think us men are generally a tad bit less anal. I love getting report from other men. I feel women are better with the details, where men are typically straight to the point.

to each their own, but I prefer straight to the point.

[Mr. Murse]

what a dumb statement on her part. I'm usually the one cleaning up after the women when I come on shift, throwing away drinks and wrappers and old paperwork left just lying around. Not saying women are more messy, just that one sex is not predominantly more messy on the job.

Sounds like she has some prejudice probably stemming from a very specific incidence or a specific person she didn't care for........

[parascribe]

I agree that messiness is not a gender issue. I tend to be neat about picking up packaging, vials, etc because of my background in EMS, if you leave a mess there, it's quite literally in a stranger's home. My manager, female, tends to leave behind a room that looks like a tornado went through when she staffs. Can't see that it effects pt care, and it can all be cleaned up later. On the other hand, I work with another nurse who tends to be disorganized and messy with her charts and paperwork. That type of messiness effects documentation and increases the work load. I tend not to ask her for help, while I'm more than happy to pick up after my manager if I need a hand.

[wcbembe]

Oh. My. God. Are you serious? Women nurses are like little pigs. At the beginning of each shift I go into our break room and it looks like the basement of a frat house after a keg party. Doughnut boxes are everywhere, each of which contains just one little, itty-bitty half-bite, because nobody wants to be the person "who ate the last doughnut." The sink is stopped up and full of coffee cups. The communal bathroom looks like the worst Waffle House toilet you could ever imagine, its sink smeared with white goo of an origin no scientist would want to explore and its floor littered with toilet paper and wet paper towels. Inside the refrigerator, indescribable brown fluids puddle. The fridge is chock-a-block with fermenting smoothies, fraps, and yogurts that only have about 1 ml left in them, as well as Tupperware half full of salad but also half full of mold. I love my woman nurses. They're like sisters. And any guy who grew up with sisters knows how grody girls can be.