Nursing Students Male Students
Published Feb 23, 2016
Can men work in OB/GYN? Can they perform tasks such as lactation consultant? Why or Why not?
TheSquire, DNP, APRN, NP
1,290 Posts
There's at least one man who's a nurse in my facility's L&D, and I know an FNP who started as a man working as a nurse in L&D. It's not the norm, but there's only cultural biases against it.
suburbiafeelsu
38 Posts
Oh, totally! Of course a male can be an L&D Nurse. Why couldn't they? Albeit, a male nurse needs to be more aware and sensitive of their sex and how that interacts with a patient / family culture and what they are comfortable with.
I wanted to do L&D for my practicum, yet the placement was filled before I got my chance to pick.
traumaholic, BSN, RN
61 Posts
I've been thinking about L&D nursing ever since I had to deliver a baby in the back of my ambulance.
Talon2006
19 Posts
For some reason, I feel like I read somewhere that in California men were banned from being a L&D Nurse. This was many moons ago so I might be wrong, but thought it was very interesting.