Do You Have Male Nurses on your Unit?

[Annointed_RNStudent]

This is a poll, if you have male nurses on your unit or not, and how do you feel they blend into the unit, also do they have positive patient experiences?

Thanks everyone in Advance~

[imenid37]

No. I hope if a male applied to work on our unit, he would be hired if he were the best candidate for the position.

[911fltrn]

Mental note to clean the nightstand! Hehe, no nightstands in E.R.

I think i fit in good wherever I work. Kindness, hard work, being able and willing to help out, will make them want you to come back

P.S. Im a professional, the hospital pays me because of my liscense, not because Im a man or a woman.

[mitchsmom]

We don't have any male nurses on our LDRP unit. Our OB docs are about 60% female/ 40%male. The peds docs are probably the other way around, or maybe even 70male/30female.

[mced]

We frequently have days in open heart recovery when only male nurses and male techs are working. I guess we fit in well on the unit. I do not think the patients we recover have any adverse experiences with us. Usually they are so hopped up on post anesthetic meds that they would not remember who took care of them at this point in their recovery anyways.

[JohnBearPA]

I work as a tech and am the only male on my unit. While I am in school, I only work Sundays. Each week when I go in, the staff lounge is a complete pig sty - crumbs on the table, magazines everywhere, and dirty dishes in the sink. Some of the patient rooms are a disaster, too. And not a male in sight during the week....

:yeahthat:

Let's not forget about the used femenine hygiene products in the bathroom wastebasket left unwrapped, for all to see. roflol

Just kidding ladies, I've only encountered that a few times, and the female nurses on the unit were more offended I had to see it than I was by seeing it. ROFLOL

:chair:

[travelnurse63]

I have worked with male nurses in different settings. I have found that male nurses are treated better than female counterparts...Male nurses are frequently promoted over a female nurse of equal education and experience, male nurses in charge positions tend to "delegate" more,do less and generally gripy when things go wrong (look for someone other than them to blame). They won't hesitate to throw you to the dogs and offer very little support when things are screwed up.

Granted there are female nurses like this as well but I think the conditioning of men as boys make them think they are should be better than women.. Not ALL male nurses are like this..But if you want to put my theory to the test just try competition with a male nurse for a promotion or a job...see who wins..

I realize this is not a popular thing to say but in the 18 years as a nurse I have seen these things..men do get ahead...plain and simple.

Just my opinion

[Nodean]

Are any of you familiar with history? The first nurses were male...

[mitchsmom]

I have worked with male nurses in different settings. I have found that male nurses are treated better than female counterparts...Male nurses are frequently promoted over a female nurse of equal education and experience, male nurses in charge positions tend to "delegate" more,do less and generally gripy when things go wrong (look for someone other than them to blame). They won't hesitate to throw you to the dogs and offer very little support when things are screwed up.

Granted there are female nurses like this as well but I think the conditioning of men as boys make them think they are should be better than women.. Not ALL male nurses are like this..But if you want to put my theory to the test just try competition with a male nurse for a promotion or a job...see who wins..

I realize this is not a popular thing to say but in the 18 years as a nurse I have seen these things..men do get ahead...plain and simple.

Just my opinion

My husband is not a nurse but he works with nurses (probably about 60% male and 40% female) and observes them daily. He always says that he can't believe the things that the women put up with, that they guys never would in a million years. Of course, I feel that when guys don't put up with it, it's normal; when women don't put up with it they are 6itches.

I can't add anything about the other things you wrote, because I'm a brand new nurse. I have liked the guys that I've been around in school/clinicals and at my husband's work, though.

[steelydanfan]

I'm not sure I understand the reason for this poll......a nurse is a nurse, whether male or female.

[swatch007]

I'm not sure I understand the reason for this poll......a nurse is a nurse, whether male or female.

Politics is played in every workplace whether one is aware of it or not. It is not just the point of views of fellow employees; it it also the point of views of the patients that imfluences the workplace dynamics; many prefered male or female nurses; the rest still undecided, but it is simply ignorance to state it does not exist. Business as usual.

[nightingalemom]

From a nurse's point of view, I've worked with some great male nurses. On a med-surg floor or in ICU, I truly believe a nurse is a nurse is a nurse, and I wouldn't want it any other way...

But, considering the topic *was* posted in the OB/GYN forum... From a laboring mom's standpoint, I would definitely not have wanted a male nurse supporting my birthing experience, and it never occurred to me that many men might choose to go into that area of nursing. (For that matter, I find it odd that so many OB's are male, but that's another topic...)

The only man I wanted in that delivery room was dh. I suppose women who choose male OB's might feel differently, but I wouldn't be at all comfortable with a male caregiver during a vulnerable time like that.

[SmilingBluEyes]

Yes we have one who is regular staff, and other who has been agency for us. Both wonderful nurses. And most welcome.