Lesbian L and D nurse

Speaking as a fellow part of the LGBT community..... I think it's important to not ever even think about your orientation and your choice of profession or specialty in that profession. That is part of the problem right there. You already see yourself as different from any heterosexual nurse. The fact that you even questioned this possibility is evidence of this. As another poster pointed out.....do you ever hear a female heterosexual nurse asking....Does anyone think it would be a problem for me to be straight and want to work in urology? Or a male straight nurse say...would it be difficult for a straight male nurse to work in women's health?.. Or heck any medical hands on nursing!
Sexual orientation and care for any patient population are not at all related.
Sounds like you are thinking-- will people think because I am attracted to women will they think I would be turned on by working in L&D and seeing women naked?!?!? Thats CRAZY! lol Would a straight female nurse think--geeze this male patient needs bathing or peri-skin care or catheter insertion or care--hope people don't think I would be turned on by seeing this man naked!
As nurses--female, male, straight or gay----part of the the job is being professional and we are privi to be a part of their care in the most intimate way when people are their at their most vulnerable. The fact is nurses do what they do because they are compassionate about wanting to care for these people during these times and love to know they are helping people to get well....or die with dignity. Nurses are not thinking about that kind of thing when they are providing care-- I worked in L&D my first job out of nursing school-- what you are thinking about is keeping the patient calm, making her feel safe and as comfortable as possible, keeping her and her baby safe, no matter what that takes. There is a bond with the L&D nurse and a laboring mom that is very unique-- a bond of trust. Your sexuality is not relavenat in the work place and I think you will see that.........you may even deliver the baby of a lesbian couple now and then.... they are a couple just like any other couple. Just like you are a nurse like any other nurse.
Try to think about the way you are thinking about this and approaching this....I think you will see what I mean. It's only an issue if you choose to make it one.
Good luck to you and I hope you love L&D nursing.

We have two lesbian nurses on our unit and no one could care less. One is way more obvious that the other and if patient's are thinking it, they don't care. (What I mean by obvious is hairstyle, dress, etc.). She's never, ever been unprofessional in any way. No one on our unit ever feels uncomfortable around her. The patient's love her! I feel that it should not make any differance whatsoever. Your nursing skills and passion is what counts! Go for it!

It might be that they do not make known how they feel. I am not saying they do feel uncomfortable, just saying that we really don't know how someone else feels unless they tell us. Even then, we can't totally be certain.

Strictly an exercise in precision here. I never cease to be amazed at how imprecise people can be. For example, how often do we conclude that someone is guilty in a court case without hearing the evidence? We base it solely on a short news article. This is wrong. We would absolutely not want our own guilt or innocence based on a news report.

It's like today's spelling - definite, collectible, and other frequently misspelled words - people putting in a's where they do not belong, or today's grammar, people saying "should have went" instead of "should have gone", or "Me and her did this or that" instead of "She and I did it".

I am just sickened by these things, I feel like an endangered species, the species that was taught proper spelling and grammar. It is very scary, probably very intentional on the part of teachers, whose own teachers did not know or teach them correctly because their teachers failed them as well.