nursemike ASN, RN

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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    Cul2, I appreciate your posts, as well. "Prejudice" may not have been well-chosen, either. I meant it in the sense of having preconceived notions, not as an accusation of sexism or any other -ism....
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    I actually entered healthcare as an orderly--more or less. Transporter/multidisciplinary worker. At the time, the job entailed a fair amount of patient care and was within nursing services, though a...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    Cul2, I'm sure you're right that there is some resentment of what I agree have been some excesses in the name of women's rights. I've read of examples and have known some men personally who've been...
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    Is being a Male nurse weird?

    nursemike replied to Daniel Floyd's topic in Men in Nursing

    Please refrain from describing or discussing the secret handshake on a public forum. A lot of women snoop here. If they learn it, how will we ever be able to tell the males from the females? Oo...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    I believe he's saying that special accommodations for women and not for men amount to discrimination. I disagree. I believe a lot of the impetus toward "women's health" facilities has been that for...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    I'm afraid you are reading entirely too much into this story. It was never my intention that we lynch the man. As you state, he may merely have been advocating for his loved one, and his belligerent...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    Thanks, Cul2 and Bill. My first example was clear advocacy, and if I had been more confident/competent, I should probably have asked that the patient be reassigned when I saw her Kardex. Of course,...
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    Is being a Male nurse weird?

    nursemike replied to Daniel Floyd's topic in Men in Nursing

    Congratulations on your decision to become a nurse, and best of luck with your studies. Men in nursing are not common, but our numbers have been growing. I haven't found it at all weird. The women I...
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    Does anyone really like their job?

    nursemike replied to tokmom's topic in General Nursing

    I work a mixed neuro/neurosurg floor. We have 3:1 stepdown assignments, 6:1 floor assignments, and a six-bed epilepsy monitoring unit. That's a lot of variety, and part of the reason I love my...
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    What do you consider to be nursing's biggest setback?

    nursemike replied to almost30's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    I agree there are times when the atmosphere could be more temperate, but I'm not sure the post you quoted is an example. One could argue that it was a response to a bigoted remark and rightfully...
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    Admissions and Privacy

    nursemike posted a topic in General Nursing

    I would appreciate thoughtful input on an ethic question I sometimes encounter when admitting new patients. Some of the questions are ones to which a patient might not want their families to know the...
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    Admissions and Privacy

    nursemike replied to nursemike's topic in General Nursing

    You know, I've been arguing on another thread that gender shouldn't matter, but I've already had to back off from that a little and admit that it sometimes does matter, whether it should or not. I...
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    What do you consider to be nursing's biggest setback?

    nursemike replied to almost30's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Is there ANYONE who doubts this is a valid question? That said, I think we may not be quite as bad off as we sometimes think we are. We are certainly not at risk of running out of room for...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    Twice in my career, both early in my career, I've been refused for a female patient by someone other than the patient. First time, the patient's mother was an employee at my facility, and the patient...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    Cul2, I appreciate your advocacy for patients' needs and rights, and I respect your willingness to discuss this and other matters as a mature adult. From many of your posts, I strongly imagine that...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    RN almost 6 years, in healthcare almost 13. So I'm not exactly an oldtimer, but I'm not an innocent newbie, either. I haven't seen the sites you describe, nor do I know of such behavior at my...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    Thanks. I believe I may have overstated my case. I do recognize that the nurse-patient relationship is a human one, and that part of respecting human dignity is accepting that we all have our...
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    Male Nurses/female Patients

    nursemike replied to ern91's topic in Men in Nursing

    While I appreciate your concern that male modesty should be considered as seriously as female modesty, I see nothing in the post referred to that amounts to duress. The patient is free to refuse...
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    The Great Double Standard?

    nursemike replied to Doog's topic in Men in Nursing

    Had an interesting interaction, recently, while I was charge. A female pt asked her assigned male nurse to be assigned a female. Not a big problem, but it was after report and everyone is running...
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    The Great Double Standard?

    nursemike replied to Doog's topic in Men in Nursing

    That is appalling, and no, please don't feel obligated to relate any uncomfortable personal experiences. I'm afraid we can probably imagine. As you observe, such a situation would never be allowed...
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    The Great Double Standard?

    nursemike replied to Doog's topic in Men in Nursing

    I certainly concur that you can't know someone's experience without walking in their shoes, but I'll stand by my asserion that males who object to a female caregiver for reasons other than modesty are...
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    Time to call a duck a duck?

    nursemike replied to eriksoln's topic in Nursing Professionalism

    In all fairness, I have to admit that scoffing at any sort of authority is a popular nursing passtime. Who doesn't love to gripe about admin or recount any blunder any doctor makes? Still, if I were...
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    Top 10 Myths of the "MURSE"

    nursemike replied to mikethemurse's topic in Nursing Humor

    Frankly, I don't really care for the term, "murse." I haven't really found the OP's myths to be all that universal. Still, though I can't put my finger on it, there's something about the OP's...
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    Does this make sense?

    nursemike replied to FutureRN618's topic in General Nursing

    My facility prefers an MSN/MBA dual degree, but one of my classmates got a management position at an agency with an ASN and an AA in public health administration, so it depends on where you want to...
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    I am leaving nursing...

    nursemike replied to littlemammanurse's topic in General Nursing

    Best wishes. Certainly, for some, getting out of nursing and never looking back is a valid choice, and it's hard to fault choosing family over any career. As you note, the option to return at some...