NurseDad

Okay, call me sexist, but I prefer working with female nurses because they look a LOT better from behind while wearing white scrubs and red panties!

I'm a pediatric nurse and have been for 13 years. I'm rather proud of the fact that I have trained almost every female nurse that works my shift. As a nurse and a dad, I can say that I'm proficient at what I do and I help heal my babies and kids without ever having had a "mother's instinct". To me, that excitement far outweighs any techo gadgets used by other departments!

We have to use wet wash cloths on our peds unit. The hospital is worried about lawsuits from allergic reactions to the baby wipes. I don't understand that... we have allergic reactions to silk tape on IVs... reactions from Pampers... reactions to antibiotics... but we still use them. Hospital politics makes no sense.

The facility I work for is making me (an LPN) becme PALS certified. Since I am full-time peds, it is good to have the knowledge that PALS affords, but because I am an LPN I can't put the knowledge to good practice. I can't do IV pushes, can't intubate, can't defib, can't do much of anything other than hand off meds from the crash cart. It seems like too much extra studying for no reason. Are peditatric LPN's at your facility required to be PALS certified and do you believe there is a benefit in PALS for LPN's?