Families Saying "No" To Male Nurses?

[moretonel]

Is it difficult for a male LPN to be given a regularly scheduled assignment. How many families in your agency have said "no" to male nurses?

[Daisy Joyce]

I took care of a MR twentysomething lady whose parents were adamant—no male staff.

Some elderly patients I’ve had said the same thing. One of them had been raped in the past. Not by a HCP, but she was still post-traumatized ?

[tinky471]

On 7/14/2019 at 3:39 PM, Hoosier_RN said:

a patient can refuse care from any caregiver that they wish, for any reason. And to be able to bill and collect funds, most healthcare agencies will accommodate the patient and provide a caregiver that will meet the request of patient. The only time that I've ever seen the request shut down was when it was sexually driven. Use your imagination

An hospital has been sued and ended up losing 80k behind such a decision. https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/11-21-11.cfm. When a patient refuses care from a caregiver there are some exceptions to this but certain criteria however, patients do not have exclusive rights to refuse care from a caregiver based on certain traits (well, not without paying probably more than they'd make billing patient's insurance). Facilities have been known to send these patients packing because they were discriminating. There's another case in Canada where they told her to take the care, go elsewhere or just wait until her so-called qualified caregiver would be available which could be hours. Male caregivers are vetted just like anyone else and should not be excluded in their entirety.

[Hoosier_RN, MSN]

5 hours ago, tinky471 said:

An hospital has been sued and ended up losing 80k behind such a decision. https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/11-21-11.cfm. When a patient refuses care from a caregiver there are some exceptions to this but certain criteria however, patients do not have exclusive rights to refuse care from a caregiver based on certain traits (well, not without paying probably more than they'd make billing patient's insurance). Facilities have been known to send these patients packing because they were discriminating. There's another case in Canada where they told her to take the care, go elsewhere or just wait until her so-called qualified caregiver would be available which could be hours. Male caregivers are vetted just like anyone else and should not be excluded in their entirety.

Most won't give a discrimination based reason as to why they don't want a caregiver-it's "they were rude", "didn't know what they were doing", "said inappropriate things", etc. It's sad that these people exist, but they do

[caliotter3]

1 hour ago, Hoosier_RN said:

Most won't give a discrimination based reason as to why they don't want a caregiver-it's "they were rude", "didn't know what they were doing", "said inappropriate things", etc. It's sad that these people exist, but they do

No wise person is going to admit to being discriminatory. And even if the reason has nothing to do with discrimination at all, there are many who will make up a lie when they get rid of the nurse anyway. Why they feel they have to make up a lie I don't know. I always inform my clients that they don't need any kind of a reason whatsoever to give the agency if they no longer want me to work for them. Easy, peasy. And I have had a person or two that I honestly felt that what they said was coming from an area of mental malfunction on their part. It was evident in how they rolled from the beginning.