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Hey everyone got a question on something that is going on at work. I am a newer grad (had my RN for about a year) , and I am working is Psych. I really love it but I applied for MedSurg first and never heard anything back so I took the Psych job at the same hospital. I was transferring one of my patients that became medically unstable to Medsurg yesterday, and was joking around with one of the nurses there about how they "don't hire guys on your floor", expecting a laugh she instead says "I know, and I know who is making that decision. She feels there are too many gyn issues to have guys working here". Of course that argument is complete crap as they also have TURP's and anything else you could imagine. So anyway I played it off as no big deal. I am about the least sensitive guy you will find, but it really is bothering me that i am not getting my 1 year medsurg experience because of this. I should say that out of 30+ nurses they have no males. I really don't wanna rock the boat, but I don't wanna get screwed out of needed experience a newer nurse needs. What should I do? Thanks in advance, Phil

Hi everyone, I need a little advice on a situation that has me rethinking going into Psych. I am a student in the RN program, and will be graduating in December. I am in the mental health clinical right now and absolutly love it. I really would love to do this when I am done with school, but a situation happened last night in clinical that has totally freaked me out and made me rethink things and since most of you have lots of experience in psych, I was hoping for advice. I was leading a group activity that was an assignment for class. Basically, people would talk about something they like, get a prize, and someone else who also likes the same thing would stand up and name something they like. It did help people come out of there shell a little and begin socializing. After it was all done, I went to lunch with my instructor. When I came back, the RN called myself and my instructor into a room and said A man in the group said I was hitting on him and made him feel uncomfortable. Well, first I am a straight male, and second I wasen't anywhere near him during group. In fact I didn't even know his name. My instructor and 3 other students where in the group and where as confused as I was, they decided to go and talk to the patient (a Bioplar patient.) He then said I had given him an extra piece of candy and he thought I was comming on to him. Everything is fine now because I had whitnesses, I understand to always try to have someone with you when with a patient but I know if I go into psych, there will be times that I will not be so lucky. It could have been his word against mine. My instructor told me she really thought I would do good in Psych and said this stuff happens to her also. I am sorry about the long post, I just am a little confused. Has this happened to anyone else? How, as a soon to be new nurse should I deal with this in the future? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.