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Ok I've researched the web and asked some of the other disciplines in our facility but many of the answers are vague. We have doctors here that are reluctant to give IV Toradol. Some say it "burns up your vessels, or may cause high incidence of GI bleed. I don't find a whole lot of info to back this up however. If anyone has some web site or personal experiences, I would like to hear them. Tx

Male vs female nurses. I've dealt with this issue for 20 years in health care nursing. What I've come up with is that really, we are all nurses. All with different traits and characteristics. If a nurse makes a mistake it is not because she's a female or a male, they are equal "a nurse". The personality of nurses and how they get along with the patients and their fellow workers is the key here. Confident, well educated nurses seem to move up the ladder in any organisation, and I've seen some females with these traits do a very good job. I have to admit though that it is the males that get noticed and are more scrutinised at their decisions, more under the microscope. I have many friends who are female co-workers and share good working relations with them, but we don't hang out after working hours. I believe that this is the biggest difference between nursing and other professions. Having a balance of male and female staff staff is the key to a healthy workplace. Men and women have different styles and can compliment and bring more diversity to the profession. You can not give generalities to "this is what male nurses are like" I've seen variations of both. Many of our regional mangers are females who got there because of the "tough" managing styles they represent. I wondered if the same managing styles were displayed by "male" managers whether it would be seen as being too agressive. Right now in the region I work in, we have no male managers in nursing. Boy, I should be ticked right off! Nah. The nursing profession is what you make of it. There will always be the negative, bitter ones who will try to bring you down, for whatever reason. I don't think, however that it is any different in other workforces.