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No it isn't a joke, and I don't recall saying it was an insult. Sure there are a lot of flamboyant gay men in the nursing profession, however, there are just as many non-flamboyant gay/straight men. My point was that we are still trying to correct the stigma attatched to men in the profession being gay. Because we all know that isn't the case. I'm sure it isn't as bad as it was, say, 30 years ago. But the discrimination is still there. For all men. Maybe more in some areas of the country than others.

Working as a cna (in lvn school right now) I had to perform a lot of peri care. In school, and even when I got my first job, doing peri care on women was always a little awkward. It got easier over time, but I would have never have tried to pawn my pts off on another cna unless the pt requested it. At the end of the day it is the job that we signed up for. If anything I think the female nurses you are working with are hindering themselves. How do they expect to be proficient in a procedure that they don't even want to do? I believe a good nurse will want to continually practice their skills to stay knowledgeable, and on top of their game. There may come a day when they have to cath a man, and end up doing a poor job of it.

Have any of you experienced this? My hopes are to get in to Downey Adult School's LVN program. I tested in February, and was accepted in to their 5 week Pre-Lvn course. From the 60 that take this class 30 are chosen to move on to the actual year long program. I tried looking on the site for a course description, but it doesn't go in to detail what we will be covering. Have any of you had this sort of thing happen? And if so what were the materials that were covered? I guess I will find out Wednesday when I start, but I just wanted to get a head start lol. Kind of an over achiever, but mainly just want to make sure I'm one of the 30 that get to move on. Any insight would be great. Thanks

Peds is like my dream job. I say go for whatever makes you happy.

It was in the afternoon. Curtains should have been drawn. I was offended that he exposed her saggy breasts to the world! I really hope you don't treat your pts with this level of disrespect :/

Well congrats. Yoy must live in the most understanding town in America.

The sad truth is that most people automatically assume males who work as nurses are gay because of the social construct of it being a "womans" job.

Well she was admitted after my mother, so i doubt he knew her too well. She gets her care at home, but needed to be admitted. I know this because her regular nurse came by to check on her. Regardless, I really hope when I'm old that I have a nurse that listens to me. Even if I'm somewhat out of it... She wasnt completely demented. As far as the curtains go, she was by the door. But I'm failing to see any sort of justification here. I don't believe they teach you to only care about pt privacy in regards to "what time of day it is," or "whether they are by the window or door." I'm sorry, but if he was so afraid to touch those curtains he should have put gloves on, or have the curtains changed. She wasnt a chimp throwing her feces. She was wearing a diaper. My issue isn't with it being a male providing care (i am male.) My issue is that he provided care after she said numerous times she didn't want him to. And he made no effort to see if she wanted to have another nurse do it. Although, she did not have any issues with female nurses. Which leads me to believe she did not want a male seeing her nude. Which is her right. You're trying to defend someone that A: disregarded patient privacy, and B: was providing sub par care at best. If I treated a pt like this at the LTC I worked at I would have been fired on the spot. Even if I knew the pt well. There is no reason, demented or not, to expose a pt to the whole world. NONE.

Also, tobe clear, i didnt say he opened it every time i closed the curtains. I said i closed it once and he opened them. While he was changing her diaper. I mean come on, this guy needed to have it closed.

I think I just offended him when I closed the curtain. Like I was intruding on the way he was giving care. Even though I was doing the right thing.

No i cannot be sure of that. But regardless of whether she was fully coherent or not, she clearly said she did not want him to change her. He made no attempt to see if she would be ok with someone else. That is what bugged me most about it.

I just got accepted to the pre-vn course at Downey Adult School. This is a 5 week course, and then the 30 top students are brought back for the LVN program. The total cost of the program is 10,099 dollars with 2000 due on the first day for books and supplies. There is financial aid, and if you qualify it will pay for 5,550 dollars of it. The rest you can arrange a payment plan. They have a gread NCLEX pass rate as well.

There was also a very awesome nurse who stood up for my mother yesterday. She was fasting for a stress test since the night before. They took her at about noon to go have a scan and then get ready for the stress test. The cardiologist was supposed to be there by 1245. My mother was on the table and waiting by 1230. At about 130, the cardiologist still hadn't arrived, the nurse called him on his cell phone and gave him an earful! Apparantly she said "Where are you? You were suppised to be here almost an hour ago! My patient has been laying here and she's hungry! Hurry up!" Lol I guess he was there not 2 minutes later. This brought me great joy to hear and I thanked her the next time I saw her.

I got in! Woohoo