Help me, I am African Amercian male nurse

[PurifiedH2O]

;)I hope this title does not scare anyone away or upset anyone. My goal is to find out how AA male nurses (LPN, ASN, BSN, or NP) deal with various challenges like dealing with female nurses (older or younger) on the floor, dealing with other ethincally diverse population of male nurses and doctors, racism if any on the floor, differences with wages and work performance, and balancing family time (for the married men with one wife and children). How do you respond and resolve conflict bet. two other coworkers? Bet. you and coworker? I also want to know from other nurses who are not of African-descent their truthful work experience with AA male nurses. THIS IS NOT A DEBATE BET. RACIAL GROUPS OR SHOULD IT START ANY RACIAL BIAS but information on experiences with culturally diverse community of nurses.

[PurifiedH2O]

Duh....my apologies.

To the op, let us know if you want to move the post. There's more traffic here, but if you want to hear from males specifically we can move it, although there are a lot of females posting on the male forum as well.

Thanks but I'll stay here as you said,"there's more traffic here."

[RosalindRN]

I'm glad you all have had such POSITIVE experiences in your careers but living here in the south, thats just not so. I used to work as a CNA in a LTC facility and we had a AA male cna that was REALLY good. He always helped me and other staff(mostly females) to change and bath the heavier patients. He was great. We had several patients and family members that would not let him bath or change (briefs, bed pads) for them. Not saying that all these pep that didnt want him were white, but all the ones that I remember were. I remember one resident that was so sweet and she loved him to death. But one day her son came in on the day she was to get her shower. He didnt say anything that day in front of the male CNA but the next week he was no longer assigned to her...per Management. Funny thing is that there was another male CNA that worked W/E that only had one resident who didnt want him and thats b/c they got into an arguement. He was a white male CNA that took care of the same pts as my friend. Im a female AA nurse and I get so tired of pep assuming I am the support staff instead of the nurse. Im glad that there are pep that dont have these problems and if you are unfortunate like me, all I can say is that I pray for these pep and their ignorance and I pray that I dont let my heart become cold because I have to live these experiences.

[Zookeeper3]

OK, honesty here. A new dred lock blood shot eyed AA male nurse was assigned to me to train. New to critical care he was laid back from the start, nothing spooked him, no prior health care exp.

Now I went all steriotypical in my mind, some raegae, ganga smoking nurse:uhoh3:

Nope, he is GOLDEN, hard working, raising his kids alone, good work ethic, simply CALM. He helps ME with those crazy climbing out the bed folks as he never gets upset. He works with his son doing landscaping 1/2 the day instead of sleeping to teach the kid work ethic, thats why he's tired and blood shot... although he looks like a drug test waiting to happen:lol2:

I've learned so much from this new guy that I love. so I share this to say, initially some may form wrong opinions like I did, WHO you ARE, will say all there is to say. After 2-3 months anyone else who displays problems with you if you're anything like this guy, will be the one with the problem. Then do your work, offer to help them and just know that some people are truly ignorant, as opposed to my temporary insanity of ignorance;) People will SEE the real you, not your gender or race. Best wishes!