Male nurses in OB

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Can men work in OB/GYN? Can they perform tasks such as lactation consultant? Why or Why not?

Specializes in Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing.

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.

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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.

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I've been thinking about L&D nursing ever since I had to deliver a baby in the back of my ambulance.

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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.

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