Female nurses have more advantage over male nurses?

[u2me]

I want to know if female nurses have more advantage over male nurses.

[karenG]

it is a lovely word isn't it:yeah: i have to say i prefer balderdash and piffle myself!

in the uk 'generally' they are lazy, not well informed and there are few and far between. so i do agree they tend to stand out more because you are making sure they are not sneeking off (in the uk) sadly, there is an element of truth in that!

now in the uk the gay nurses are outstanding. and loved by the ladies.... really funny to watch a ward full of female patients putting on their best bib and tucker because a favourite male nurse is about to come on duty!

but straight male nurses spend half their time flirting with the female staff and the other half trying to get out of work or focusing on projects to enable themselves to get into management positions as quickly as possible. ah so thats why they all end as managers!!! i used to have to fish the lads out of the canteen to do any work!! but there are some good ones out there.... honestly!!

[nursemike, ASN, RN]

Male nurses, in my opinion, are sometimes treated a little better than their female counterparts. For example, the rude doctor who screams loudly at the female nurse in front of a group of people wouldn't even think of behaving in the same manner toward the male nurse.

Docs are generally well-behaved at my facility, but I have noticed that some patients seem more respectful to male nurses. Some confused and agitated patients also seem to respond better to men. One of my female peers thinks it has a lot to do with just having a lower-pitched voice. I think that may be true, at least in part. Part of it may be that we as a society are more socialized to men as authority figures. It also appears to me that older female nurses have it a bit better than younger female nurses. Some of that may be due to greater experience, but some appears to hold for second-career women versus younger nurses with more experience.

[bigjay]

It is a lovely word isn't it:yeah: I can compare two countries now and I have found that here in the US generally the male nurses are extreemly well informed, work as hard as the females nurses and there are a lot of them. In the UK 'generally' they are lazy, not well informed and there are few and far between. So I do agree they tend to stand out more because you are making sure they are not sneeking off (in the UK)

Now in the UK the Gay nurses are outstanding. But straight male nurses spend half their time flirting with the female staff and the other half trying to get out of work or focusing on projects to enable themselves to get into management positions as quickly as possible.

Now before everybody bites my head off I am generalising but if needed I can provide hundreds of real life situations where I personnally have witnessed this behaviour as a student, rn, charge nurse and manager.

Please provide this information since the above above is an incredibly offensive generalization.

[bigjay]

I find that being a male nurse you stick out more. People are more likely to remember you and notice you. This can be a positive or a negative depending on the perception.

Generally for me I think it's been more of a positive than a negative since I'm generally competant and experienced. I find some of the older docs are a bit friendlier with me than with the younger female nurses but I think part of that is just that they recognise I know what I'm doing.

[silentRN]

why do you have to work harder?

Because nurses can be very clickish, and some nurses act like you have to prove yourself to them, which is garbage. Be yourself and do what works best for you.

-David

[silentRN]

Male nurses, in my opinion, are sometimes treated a little better than their female counterparts. For example, the rude doctor who screams loudly at the female nurse in front of a group of people wouldn't even think of behaving in the same manner toward the male nurse.

I've had a doctor scream at me the same way he'd scream at other female nurses. He's a real @%!. I told my DON about him, and how that everyone on the unit feels about this doc. She was shocked cause no one had ever told her about this one doc and everyone feels the same. Surprisingly he got kicked off of the trauma team (I work in a teaching hospital) the other day and now he's with another service. Since I've been working here, my respect for residents goes down as the days go on. Their cocky, rude, and don't respect nurses, and don't listen to what you have to say. When they don't know what to do about a patient they all use the same old line, "I'll come up to the unit and see the patient." Well, as usual, they never do. I had it with them. I was so frustrated one night that I wrote my unit manager an email about them and I didn't want to return to work their anymore. Well, point being...they treat us male nurses the same as they treat you female nurses. There is no bias.

-David

[AirforceRN, RN]

Well, we do get to pee standing up...I don't envy those who have to sit on the can at the hospital.

[Valerie Salva, BSN, RN]

I've had a doctor scream at me the same way he'd scream at other female nurses. He's a real @%!. I told my DON about him, and how that everyone on the unit feels about this doc. She was shocked cause no one had ever told her about this one doc and everyone feels the same. Surprisingly he got kicked off of the trauma team (I work in a teaching hospital) the other day and now he's with another service. Since I've been working here, my respect for residents goes down as the days go on. Their cocky, rude, and don't respect nurses, and don't listen to what you have to say. When they don't know what to do about a patient they all use the same old line, "I'll come up to the unit and see the patient." Well, as usual, they never do. I had it with them. I was so frustrated one night that I wrote my unit manager an email about them and I didn't want to return to work their anymore. Well, point being...they treat us male nurses the same as they treat you female nurses. There is no bias.

-David

I appreciate your post, but I have seen docs treat female nurses far worse than they treat males. Strangly, some female docs do this, too.

[silentRN]

Maybe cause there's more female nurses out there? I don't know. I don't see a difference.

[karenG]

Please provide this information since the above above is an incredibly offensive generalization.

it may well be offensive.. but I have to say, male students play the system a lot more than women. as a clinical practice teacher, I would say its the men who call foul a lot more than women. as a example, I had a male student assigned to me who turned up 2 hrs late on his first day, he 'forgot what time I started'. He asked to do his course work instead of using the time as clinical learning time (he didnt need to learn anything I had to teach because I work in a community setting and he couldnt see the relevence to 'real' hospital work), finally he reported me for discrimination. his reason? I declined to do his course work for him! he had to write a piece on the role of the nurse practitioner in primary care.. so told me to write it as that is my job. I have to say, I thought he was joking.. but it would appear not. So, I won't tell you the hassle I had to clear my name.. but I keep good records about my students. Having said that, the docs i work for were so upset about the whole thing and about the students attitude, that they refused to supply placements for students for 3 years. over here, we dont get paid for having students, its a huge amount of hassle for a practice to have a student and we do it because we want to. so the university lost a good placement for 3 yrs because of this one student. And i really hope he never qualified as a nurse..

there are good and bad apples in every box.. he was a bad one! there are obviously problems with the female nurses.. but its the men who cause me more problems!

[twistedpupchaser]

Where I work the only advantage the women have over me is the supply of magazines in the tea room. I just can't bring myself to read the dribble about celebrity gossip. If anyone brings a car, fishing, hunting or any other mens type mag, (by this I dont mean T&A mags) it will disapear unless they keep it in their locker and usually thrown out.

[rolland542]

Sorry, Ladies and Gentlemen,

But Males and Females are treated differently in the nursing profession! In the State of Oklahoma, Males are disciplined at a higher percentage rate by population percentage than females according to the OBN year end reports.

The numbers do not lie! Personal experience tells as well of a major differences between the genders on treatment in the workplace. We all need to stand together and realized that our sex has nothing to do with our nursing skills! I just received a DNR from one of the hospitals I covered for and it was all based on my sex yet they criticized my assessment skills, my IV insertion skills and my patient care skills....all of which have been complimented by 15 other facilities.......hmmmmmmmm