Men or Women? who is a better nurse?

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im student nurse... and one topic that we came across today in class is " who is a better nurse? men or women?" ... is it really true when they say women are more caring than men? For nurses that have been in the profession in years, what do u think? ...

Originally posted by Dr. Kate

Researchrabbit: as we said in the 70s: "the woman who strives to be equal to a man lacks ambition."

But really, what a dreadful thing to throw out to a class. It reaks of fostering gender bias and mindless prejudices.

Gender is no determinant of quality and ability.

It was awful, wasn't it? That was in 1976 and the most prejudiced professor I ever had. He would actually berate the guys if one of us women answered a question that they couldn't,

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I like you , research rabbit!! I hope some woman met him in a dark alley!!! hahahaha

I took the ASFAB (sp.) in 1982, when I told the recruiter that I wanted to be a pilot, he laughed, right in my face. Then he proceeded to tell me that women don't fly. They are too slow in their reaction times. WOW, that was very damaging to a young girls' mind. No one has told me since that I can't do anything. I've been a private pilot since 1988 and fly aerobatics.

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Are you asking for quality or quantity?

Sorry, had to throw that in there just to rattle some cages!!!!

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I am very glad to see some men in my nursing classes. In fact, I told one of the guys in class that I would like to work with him and the others because the fact is, men are different. Study after study shoes the gender bias in our upbringing (here in the USA). I did a whole term paper on those differences in communication, study after study, etc. Men or women are not "better or worse" they are just born biollogically different and our society socializes them differently.

I feel it would benefit me, a female, to work with as much diversity as possible.

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My youngest son is asking about what I think of his going into nursing seems to be considering it he is a framer ( builds houses )now. My older son was considering PT for a while, his twin sister is in nursing school at this time. I encourage them all I don't think gender has anything to do with it. Chandra said it well " any one who has knowledge and puts in practice with compassion dedication and empathetic feeling is a good nurse" of course a little common sense doesn't hurt either :) Debyan

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Ok....

I don't know which came first, but I thought it interesting that they hired a girl to sleep with King David when he was old, just to keep him warm.....the Bible explicitly states he didn't have sex with her.......seems to me, she was kinda a CNA????? ;)

Anyhow, I'll never forget the first time a guy took care of me as a patient; it about blew my mind how GENTLE he was, and strong enough to do in one motion what women took two or three to do. I've had good and bad both men and women since, so I don't stereotype. :cool: peace

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rnoflabor2000, just relax a little it was just a little info for everyone,nothing personal meant by it

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This is a very inflammatory question to be asking in the first place! Just what did you expect to get as answers?

You may as well have been asking "who is the better human being, men or women?"

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It is a very loaded question, and Mark(LD), it wasn't a personal attack in any way. But Adrienurse is right, you couldn't possible tell which is better.

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Id rather be taken care of by and would rather work with a good nurse no matter what their gender is ...when the're on the clock it dosent make any difference, they are a nurse period! Ive worked with both good and bad female nurses and both good and bad male nurses...the difference that matters is not the gender but the nurisng ability of the person....

umm what the heck is a UAP??? sorry a bit slow here...left my brain at work...hmmm that would expalin why I cant spell

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Originally posted by nurse-lou

I agree with all of what Suzy K has said! A good nurse is a good nurse regardless of gender! And I want an RN taking care of me in the hospital!

annnnd....why an rn?...lpn not good enough for you, nurse-lou?

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Sunnygirl,

I don't think nurse Lou meant anything by that. In L&D, only an RN can care for a gravid patient or a postoperative patient, at least where I am. However, we have LPN's that provide excellent care to recovering delivered patients. Some much more qualified and competent, again it depends upon the person, not the sex or the degree.

That would make a thread just as difficult to answer as this one.

There was a research paper in the New England Journal of Medicine that did a study that compared care given by RN's and care given by LPN's and CNA's that showed an 8% decrease in complications, etc...however, I haven't read the study or the data involved. There was just a blurb in USA Today, world section.

Please don't shoot the messenger!!!!

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