I just have to ask this one, because we have a newly-just passed boards-older male nurse that works on our med surg unit, and when our OB unit is short staffed, we pull from the med surg floor to help us. Well, last week we were short 2 different noc shifts and this new nurse was pulled to work back in the OB unit.
Needless to say, he let it be known that he did not like it back there and was even making sneering comments about having to JUST ROCK babies all shift! WE all got the impression that he thought it was beneath himself to float to OB!!!
I find this interesting, because we have 2 other male nurses.. one on medsurg and one from ER that have no problem floating to help us. THey actually enjoy the change of scenery on occassion!
Was just curious if anyone has a male nurse that regularly works on their unit and if so what do your pts think of it!!! I had a young good looking single male RN with my first baby when I was 19, and I was very uncomfortable with HIM changing my chuxs and checking my stitches!!!
I've heard allot about ban's against male nurses working OB. I assume that it's never put into writing but it is still stated and enforced. I've heard of 2 men that tried to challenge these ban's and although I don't know the details I know that they lost in court. I hope that there were other reasons that they lost but don't know.
It happened to me recently. One of the hospitals I worked at had a director leave and the new inter um director decided that men would no longer be allowed to work on L&D. I considered fighting it but decided against it and just moved on.
P.S. What happened to the smiling blue eyes on your used ID Deb? the pumpkin is cute but I miss the eyes.
Slightly off topic...the hospital where I am working currently does not allow female nurses to cath a male. However, male nurses can cath a female. This is a med-surg floor.
I am male and next week my clinical rotation is on OB on evenings and I can't wait! I think the entire roatation is going to be fascinating!
And as far as it being "beneath me" to rock the lil' ones - I have never in my life ever even seen a single solitary wee one that I didn't absolutely, positively fall head over heels in love with! Let me get my hands on one and they are going to have to force me to go home at the end of my shift!
Good luck! And I'm just like you, I fall "in love" with every baby I see! :)
Slightly off topic...the hospital where I am working currently does not allow female nurses to cath a male. However, male nurses can cath a female. This is a med-surg floor.
There was a male RN on the OB unit I did my clinical rotation on and all I ever heared were GREAT things about him. There were even letters from patients acknowledging( after 4 years of school and I still can't spell this word :0) how wonderful and supportive he was during labor, right along with the letters from patients COMPLAINING about female nurses. Go figure. Just goes to prove that you can't stereotype anyone...
I am sad to see that a charge nurse would purposely hand you Muslim patients to embarass you. Sounds as if someone needs to do something about that charge nurse.
we had a husband/wife "traveler" L&D RNs team that were great...
actually, the guy was even better nurse than his wife! Very professional, knowledgeable, sensitive, caring...and, after the initial "my nurse is a GUY?" shock, the patients just LOVED him!
If they had been able to stay in town, would loved to have hired them both full time!
I would rather have bamboo spikes hammered under my fingernails than work OB; I hated it when OB pts. came to the ED, because for some reason, I usually got them.
And I'm just like you, I fall "in love" with every baby I see! :)
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Deb...I know! I've never heard of anyone challenging this, though. He decided to get into ER instead.