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Specializes in CCRN.

I was on shift one night and I was informing one of the residents that the patient's temp was slowly creeping up to fever threshold (he was floating in between 100 to 101). Anyway, she said something along the lines of "He's a bit hot right now probably because you're his nurse tonight. I'm sure this happens with a lot with your patients." Would you consider this as flirting?

Although such behaviors are kinda frequent between me and my co-workers in general. Except it's kinda specific to me as there are 2 other guys on the floor and it doesn't happen with them. Any other male in here have a co-worker smack their ass with something playfully??????

I'm a male btw, I chose the username to remain inconspicuous. Though after this post, I don't think it'll stay that way lol.

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Specializes in SICU.

Respect and flirtation are very different, remember that. I'm not sure what your actual question was, or your point in posting this at all, but I've found that people are usually treated in ways they allow. If you smiled, flirted back, or even let the concern be dismissed, then you allowed that behavior and the possibility of it happening again. If you don't speak up in the moment, all you will ever be is a "pretty face" who isn't taken seriously, and whose patients suffer as a result of your lack of professionalism.

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Specializes in PICU.

How is your response to something like this? What are your other conversations like? Are you always joking around, making jokes, "flirtatious" responses?

If conversations like you posted are making you uncomfortable, you need to make sure that you are not joking around towards them but yet when it is you on the receiving end you are upset. If it bothers you stop the joking all around. You need to let the person know who made the joke that you did not like it.

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If you introduced a picture of guinea pigs as your avatar, we could guess which one, male or female, is you. You can tell you know! There is another comment I could make, but I'm not in to political correctness. Guinea pigs and the smaller cousins, hamsters, rule!

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Specializes in school nurse.

Yeah, she's flirting. I just couldn't tell from the content of your post if you were complaining or not about it...

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The pronouns were hard to follow but once you explained it, it was easier to do so. But then the narrative is still confusing. So did she just casually flirt with you by making that comment or did she slap your butt on top of that?

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