lapswimmer

At our facility we overhead page a "code gray". Throughout the hospital there are individuals who are trained in CPI and they usually respond. Security must also respond. We have a 21 geriatric unit and 19 bed adult unit. That will soon change as we get another 30 beds. Psych beds will make up about 30% of all the beds in the hospital. When I was in nursing school back in the day, I worked as a CNA/Mental Health worker at a psych only hospital on a geri unit but was often called to codes on the adolescent unit. Police were often calle don weekends when staffing was minimal. Joe, RN

If the lead off posting is an accurate quoting of the article then I think the author has certainly not made the case for an oppressive discrimination against males in the nursing profession. Males make more than women in nursing and they hold more management jobs. I have felt no discrimination as a male. In fact I have felt just the opposite, nearly every female I have been taught by or worked with has gone out of her way to make me feel welcome. I have been discriminated against by some patients. To a person they have been elderly and female and few in number. They come from a cohort group that is very unfamiliar with nursing care given by men. Unless I am the only one around they have the right to choose who will give them care. It doesn't bother me. Joe