Where can I get male only patients?

[Firas5]

Im a male CNA and I've worked In a facility where males were not even allowed to have female residents. If there were females in the assignment they would swap them for a male with a female CNA.

I've recently joined another facility and I don't think it's the same.

For religious reasons I cannot do females.

I cannot understand how, in a non life/death situation, where a male and female CNA is available, a male CNA is changing/toileting, cleaning and dressing a woman, while on the other side of the curtain, a woman is doing the same for a man. Thats crazy and there's no explanation for this.

Does anyone know any facilities in NYC or queens where they don't give male CNA's females?

[ItsThatJenGirl, CNA]

Well, that sounds like a serious drag. However, again, the OP is "consider(ing) consequences of it," and specifically asking for suggestions on where he might find all male healthcare settings specifically so his religious requirements would not create additional burdens on coworkers.

Which is the same question he asked two years ago, with similar responses. He's also expressed concern about being discriminated against because he's an Asian male, and being falsely accused of things by female patients. He also recently quit his job with zero notice and is having trouble finding another.

I think there's more to this than his religious beliefs. JMO, of course.

[TriciaJ, RN]

This reminds me a male nurse aid I worked with when I was on Med-Sur as an RN. When he had a female patient he didn't want to take care, he often reported me that the patient requested female staff only. I had to do tasks which could be done by a nurse aid on top of my duties (could be done by a nurse only) and it made my shift really difficult. It not just consumed my time, but I had to prioritize the tasks which were usually on the bottom of my list.

I understand some people have religious work restriction, but you have to consider consequences of it especially if it affects other team members excessively (I shared the story above to show an example even though it is not religion related.)

Your coworker had a religious work restriction all right. He was religiously opposed to doing work.

[3ringnursing, BSN]

I worked at a VA Medical Center - I had one female patient in 3.5 years.

[henrysmom]

I work inpatient at the VA. 95% of our patients are male, most elderly. Many of them prefer male CNAs, however there aren't too many of them so the modest patients must be cared for by females anyway. Check out the VA.

[umbdude, MSN, APRN]

VA, psych, corrections with male inmates, and home health care some good areas.

I worked in home health as an aide for a very short time before nursing school. I got so many requests to work with male clients that I sadly had to keep turning them down. They think I'm physically stronger and can "lift them" if I have to. One patient's wife told me that she didn't want any young ladies touching her husband.

[Julius Seizure]

Abortions are a part of women's healthcare and one shouldn't be able to pick and choose for whom they provide care, particularly based on supernatural beliefs.

I understand being opposed to the law itself, but...

Regardless of what the law states, what would be wrong about a nurse just choosing not to work at an abortion clinic? If they would prefer to work, say, in LTC or perhaps on an oncology floor, what difference does it make why they chose one specialty over another? That isn't the same as working in a women's health clinic and refusing to care for a certain subset of patients treated at that clinic.

I don't see a reason to feel "vehement" over any personal choice that another makes if it affects no one but themselves.

[ComeTogether, LPN]

And, yet, there is Federal law that protects the right of healthcare providers to decline/refuse to participate in procedures/care to which they object on religious grounds (specifically written to protect anti-choice healthcare providers), so there is legal precedent and legal protections in place for individuals who have religious objections to particular aspects of healthcare.

I'm surprised at how many people here have posted that, if the OP has religious objections to some aspects of providing care, and his religious beliefs don't permit him to provide care for everyone, then he has not business going into healthcare. When anti-choice people come here to say that they want to go into healthcare but they have religious objections to abortion and are unwilling to participate in abortions, no one tells them that they shouldn't go into healthcare -- people practically line up here to assure them that they will be fine, there is law that protects their beliefs, they can't be compelled to participate, and all they have to do is work in a setting that won't involve abortion. That is all the OP is doing -- asking for suggestions about healthcare settings that would not conflict with his religious beliefs and observance.

It's not that OP doesn't have the right to not care for women, but that his only option is to find a facility that only accepts men, and those are few and far between. It wouldn't be fair to the patients or the staff if a caregiver couldn't care for 50% or more of the patients and honestly, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me to choose a career that will cause someone to run into circumstances where they can't perform their duties.

[Agatha12]

To be honest I cant understand why female patients are assigned to male CNA when female CNA are available. In my hospital male nurses and CNA are automatically assigned to male patients unless there are more male staff so they have to take female patients. It is courtesy towards patients to be cared for same sex staff especially while giving personal care. It reduces the number of possible claims of sexual abuse. If OP does not refuse the care of female patients in emergency (which is unacceptable and in such case he should change profession) then I think he has right to wonder why hospital choose to do assigments in this way.