Male RN-assist with pelvic exams?

[walnuttree91]

I'm a male RN, who left ED nursing ten years ago, and just returned. When I left, male nurses had nothing to do with "intimate" procedures on female patients. At my new ER, I have been told that I am to insert foleys and assist male MDs with pelvic exams on female patients.

If anything, I think that all the sexual abuse news should make it even more imperative that I avoid doing these things. Some of the male MDs agree with me. Your opinions?

[MacERRN]

I' I don't compare the guy I love with some stinky guy who hadn't taken a bath in 6 months and had smegma allover his member. Why would I? Why would I envision anything like that during sex? .

This is my favorite post on this entire site. You can really visualize..... But this is a stupid thread as common sense always rules. And there are lazy people on every unit that that will do anything, use any excuse to get out of doing their job.