Male Peds Nurses

[MalePedsRN]

I am looking for some information regarding why you, as a male nurse, choose to work pediatrics. I am a male nurse in pediatrics and want to gather information for a possible presentation on why men choose pediatrics and/or concerning recruiting men into pediatrics. If you could post or e-mail information about why choose pediatrics or maybe why you would not that would be helpful to me. Thank you.

[joeb1, ASN, BSN, RN]

I have an associates rn degree. I started out of school on a small hospital's general peds unit-think 1-6 patients at a time. I then went to OB/Nursery, to work as we were supposed to get a level 2 nursery. Well, 2 years later, no nursery and I'm doing mostly labor and delivery. I have 2 weeks left, then I start in a bigger hospital, same town, doing their peds ER. I guess I am still a kid at heart. Besides, how often do adult nursing jobs allow you to play?

[karenG]

sometimes I just love the american way of mangling our language!!

peds.... over here that would be paeds!

[nursemike, ASN, RN]

sometimes I just love the american way of mangling our language!!

peds.... over here that would be paeds!

Ain't that there Latin?

I don't work in either, but do get kids in our Epilepsy Monitoring Unit. They used to scare me a bit. My own children are Feline-Americans, so I haven't spent a lot of time around kids of bipedal heritage. Not as familiar with dosages, so I try to figure out the doses of Diastat (rectal Valium) before they're needed (only time I've actually used it was on an adult.)

One night I did get three non-epileptic kids on overflow, but they were easy. The EMU kids are usually pretty easy, too. Not a lot of co-morbidity, usually. I'm learning to adjust to parents sleeping in and doing half my work, too. Prior to nursing, I was never a control freak, but now it takes some real effort to share.