Are men not as neat as women nurses?

[LVN_Soon2Be]

So I'm a nursing student and my instructor today said "A man must have been teaching in the classroom! It's a mess!"

She also went on about how most male nurses are sloppy and messy.

I was like "really?"

When I worked as a CNA I would NEVER leave my rooms messy. I liked having nice and tidy rooms!

Do you think male nurses are messy?

[Bluebolt]

I'm a male nurse who has always been slightly OCD about an organized space. Everything has it's place and I put it there. I still hate to vacuum and do laundry, but as long as the clothes are dirty and in the hamper and not on the floor, I'm cool. As a nurse I am usually organized in my room because I want to find what I want right away. I don't want the families to come in and believe the patient is not being cared for well. Their perception is reality and a messy room immediately makes family feel uneasy. It also makes the nurse seem scatter brained or even like they don't care about the environment.

I have found that males and females can be messy, it's open to both genders. Although I will say there probably are slightly more guys I know who don't worry as much about a clean or tidy patient room, or chart.

[Libby1987]

The males I've worked with were military like in their orderliness.

[MrChicagoRN, RN]

One time, a patient's family member (who I think was probably severely OCD in the first place) was quite intent on redoing my entire bed change because of a couple of wrinkles in the top sheet. She then told me "Don't worry, I understand, it's a man thing. Only women know how to make beds."

I wonder what her reaction would've been if I told her I was transgender.

If she couldn't handle a man making a bed, she couldnt handle that. I think her head would have exploded, and then you'd have a Huge mess to clean up.

[kool-aide, RN]

I like to keep my rooms tidy. My coworkers claim they do, also. My coworkers and I have differing definitions of "tidy." Haha

[Lmomma]

I am an LPN student, and I can tell you that the men in my program are anything but! I think that was a rude statement

[ANnot4me]

I'm a male nurse who has always been slightly OCD about an organized space. Everything has it's place and I put it there. I still hate to vacuum and do laundry, but as long as the clothes are dirty and in the hamper and not on the floor, I'm cool. As a nurse I am usually organized in my room because I want to find what I want right away. I don't want the families to come in and believe the patient is not being cared for well. Their perception is reality and a messy room immediately makes family feel uneasy. It also makes the nurse seem scatter brained or even like they don't care about the environment.

I have found that males and females can be messy, it's open to both genders. Although I will say there probably are slightly more guys I know who don't worry as much about a clean or tidy patient room, or chart.

I agree and when I was at the bedside, I usually arrived early and tidied the nurses station and then the med room. After handover, as I rounded on each patient, I tidied the mess left by the patients, families and previous nurses. I cannot work in a mess and a mess has no gender.

In a work environment, it is just disrespectful to others not to pick up after yourself.