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My experiance is that when you tell a Doc that you are going to chart that he said "don't call back" they generally back up and re-evaluate that particular order. I had a urologist who I called at 2230 about an I&O issue on a CBI patient. His response was "Idon't give a damn, there is no way to keep accurate I&O on a patient with CBI and if you had called me after midnight I would chew youur ass out!" I calmly said "Actually Dr _____ you kind of are, but I am just going to chart that I notified you and your response was Idon't give a damn." You could actually hear him start back pedaling when he realized that would place the burden on him and not on me. He then decided to give me a more appropriate order in a more polite tone.

The only Nurses on my unit that use PDA's are the 2 guys. One of the women has one, but she hasn't figured out how to use it for anything but solitaire yet. I have offered to help her with that. Usually when a patient can't figure out how to use the DVD player in their room (yes we have them) my co-workers ask me to come fix it. I say I don't know how cause I haven't read the manual (YES I actually read the manuals). Overall I think the women I work with aren't as into the technology as us guys are because they can't be intuitive with it. They do try to fix things though and they are pretty creative about their efforts too! When new technology is introduced to our unit, I do not see them shy away from it, they just don't seek it out. Fortunately most of the women on my shift are younger, so they are more tech friendly than the older ones.

Quite frankly, I think that it is a shame that any female has to miss school, or work for that matter (I worked with a CNA who left work early without permission because she had cramps), because of her peroid. There alot of place in Africa that require their females (school age and older) to go live in what they call a menstrual hut (I am guessing this may have something to do with the aformentioned homicidal tendancies). As I understand it, none of them are allowed to leav e the hut until their period is over (glad I am not incharge of ensuring that!). How would tampax giving a dollar per package to these women change this type of cultural discrimination? Do they think hey are going to change centuries of this behavior that is culturally ingrained and assimilated with a few bucks? They better sell an awful lot of those darn t-shirts!

Each man deal with his emotions in his own way. I was raised by a career military father and crying was not to be tolerated from a man. FORTUNATELY, I have grown past that! When my mother died, I cried, alone and in private, but I cried. When my wife of 16 years announced that she was divorcing me and all through the process I cried often ... yes publicly. I have wept with patients who were sick and afraid that they weren't going to get better and with families of patients who were dying and of those who had already past. I am what you would call a manly man. 6', 220 lbs, with a mustache and a deep voice. I have learned over the years that hiding from you emotions is unhealthy. There is ABSOLUTELY nothing what-so-ever wrong with crying with a patient or their family in a time of loss. It lets them know that they are being cared for by someone who genuinely cares for them. Well, I will step down off my soapbox now and just finish by saying let it out guys!

I would report the offender. Comments like that are way out of line and unacceptable in a professional environment, and it doenst matter if you are straight, gay or bi-sexual. That type of behavior should not be tolerated under any circumstances.

I always try to have a female present when I have to do anything that exposes a female patients genitalia. I always ask my female patients if they would be more comfortable with one of the female nurses doing things like catheter insertion, suppositories, etc. Likewise my female counterparts have asked me to to do the same with male patients, especially if it is a younger patient. I have had a couple of times when I have been asked to place a foley in a male patient who had gotten an eraction when one of my female collegues had tried. I guess that it is safest to give your patients the option to have a female RN perform these procedures. If they are comfortable with you doing it, CYA and have a female present in the room to assist. I simply tell the patients that the CNA is there to assist so I don't have to break sterile. Good luck with school, Remember that if you are putting your patients best interests in front of your own and remain professional at all times, this should not be a concern.

Congratulations! Now the real learning begins!

Wow, perhaps if more states did something like this, more of us guys would find our way into the best profession ever!

I have seen lots of these ones but usually they are covered in tats! LMAO!!!

- You know more about the monthly cycles of your co-workers than yours own spouse/girlfriend! - You know more about your co-workers sex lives than your own! LMAO these are all true!

Okay, not having to wax or shave my nether regions ... more reasons I am glad I am not a woman! Thanks for the laugh!

Ha Ha Ha! Too funny! I am a Packer fan!!!

Personally, I don't mind being treated like one of the "girls". I look at it this way, when they talk about their personal intimate things around me, I figure I have earned a certain level of trust with them. Even my Ex-wife didn't share some of the information with me that many of my female co-workers have. It kind of gives us an inside track to the female mind. That being said, I still don't know a darned thing about how they work, LOL!

Sorry about all the anger in my last post. This has been the most difficult time of my life and I was having a REALLY bad day with the Ex. I just kind of exploded. Please accept my deepest, heartfelt, sincerest apology. I AM SORRY!!!

I have a question for all of you that is along the lines of this thread. There is a woman whom I have started seeing romanticly. Her insurance requires that she come to the Hospital where I work if she ever needs it. She asked me if she was ever admitted to my floor (Med/Surg) would I be her Nurse. I jokingly told her that I wouldn't cause I didn't think it would be appropriete for her Nurse to be walking around with an erection. My question for you is, would it be inappropriate or a conflict of interest for me to be her Nurse, since we are becoming romanticly involved?