Biker53

Biker53

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  1. The Stigma of Men in Nursing

    Biker53 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    The bottom line is medical care does not automatically cause all patients to shed their modesty and to the extent they can be accommodated in those instances it is a good thing. Given the vast gender...

  2. The Stigma of Men in Nursing

    Biker53 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    Most nursing and related care is not life or death scenarios. Passing medicine and providing most other services are not what is at issue here. It is intimate care that some women only want female...

  3. The Stigma of Men in Nursing

    Biker53 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    I haven't walked in your shoes and suffered your embarrassment or discomfort and I suspect you've not had a female nurse make what was supposed to be a purely clinical encounter into something not...

  4. The Stigma of Men in Nursing

    Biker53 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    No, what's pathetic are healthcare staff that don't care how embarrassed or uncomfortable their patients are when forced to have certain exams or procedures done by opposite gender staff. Male...

  5. The Stigma of Men in Nursing

    Biker53 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

  6. The Stigma of Men in Nursing

    Biker53 replied to Nurse Beth's topic in General Nursing

    In an ideal world nobody would care but it's not an ideal world. Some patients do care. Some women don't want male staff for certain intimate procedures. Some men don't want women for certain...

  7. OK, don't sweat small stuff about patients, especially from glasshouse

    Biker53 replied to Emergent's topic in General Nursing

    I'm 66 and can't swallow pills. Never could. The gag reflex kicks in. I generally use a finger to push them down my throat just far enough to swallow. Occasionally I just chew

  8. CRNAs: We are the Answer

    Biker53 replied to Bluebolt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    I'm just asking questions trying to understand. I don't have the answer but agree that there is surely a skills & training reason why hospitals hire anesthesiologist MD's. It may what we are...

  9. CRNAs: We are the Answer

    Biker53 replied to Bluebolt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    But you haven't answered why would a hospital ever hire an anesthesiologist if a CRNA will do the same work for much less $ while having the same skill & knowledge base as an

  10. CRNAs: We are the Answer

    Biker53 replied to Bluebolt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Then why would any hospital ever employ an Anesthesiologist MD if the same skill & knowledge level is available for far less $ in the form of CRNA's? Why would anyone go through all those years...

  11. CRNAs: We are the Answer

    Biker53 replied to Bluebolt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    Interesting comment. This sounds like my experience with PA's. My last 2 primary care providers have been PA's, not because I wanted a PA but because when I needed to find a new PCP there weren't...

  12. CRNAs: We are the Answer

    Biker53 replied to Bluebolt's topic in Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, CRNA

    This is a topic that has confused me or a while now. Am I understanding this correctly that the MD's are there for the initial induction but then leave for another OR while the CRNA stays with the...

  13. Are you supposed to check a boy's foreskin during a physical?

    Biker53 replied to SydneyKidney's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    Elvish, you did it the way I would hope all parents would handle it. You gave your son a choice, and he chose what he was comfortable with. Our daughter was very shy and my wife just knew moving her...

  14. Are you supposed to check a boy's foreskin during a physical?

    Biker53 replied to SydneyKidney's topic in Nurse Practitioners, NP

    I don't fault the NP's who are doing their job as best they can while trying to minimize the embarrassment of their teenage boy patients, but I am at a loss as to what their parents are thinking in...

  15. Where are all the "older" nurses?

    Biker53 replied to tjcnurse2b's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    From Julius Seizure I realize some young folks can be mature beyond their years and that there are some older folks that never grew up. It is just that generally speaking I find myself more...

  16. Where are all the "older" nurses?

    Biker53 replied to tjcnurse2b's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    For what its worth, as a patient I prefer older nurses. They have an emotional maturity that not all twenty somethings

  17. Patient privacy and pelvic exams

    Biker53 replied to cphillipslpn's topic in General Nursing

    I understand and apologize if I have intruded where I am not wanted. I had seen many non-nurses make posts and thought patient perspectives were

  18. Patient privacy and pelvic exams

    Biker53 replied to cphillipslpn's topic in General Nursing

    No, I am not a nurse but I have been in dozens of intimate care scenarios with nursing staff, enough so as to know the difference between being treated respectfully with no unnecessary exposure and on...

  19. Patient privacy and pelvic exams

    Biker53 replied to cphillipslpn's topic in General Nursing

    No doubt that is how many patients, male and female, handle it when they are being needlessly exposed to people who are not part of directly providing healthcare and for whom the patient was not asked...

  20. Vermont hospice

    Biker53 replied to nrcnurse's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Sorry, I just haven't ever been to Randolph enough to be familiar with it. And I must say thank you for being a VNA & H nurse. They indeed do have a special calling. They helped me get through...

  21. Vermont hospice

    Biker53 replied to nrcnurse's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    Though I live closer to Randolph than I do Brattleboro, I am not familiar with it. Sorry. I used to live near Brattleboro and spent a lot of time there which is why I am familiar with it. Good luck...

  22. Patient privacy and pelvic exams

    Biker53 replied to cphillipslpn's topic in General Nursing

    Sailornurse, you hadn't commented further and I'm thinking maybe you really are serious that you would do a sports physical including a genital exam on a teenage boy with a female chaperone and Mom...

  23. Vermont hospice

    Biker53 replied to nrcnurse's topic in Hospice, Palliative

    I can't speak to the VNA & Hospice but I can tell you that Brattleboro is a great town. The downtown is fully walkable to wherever you want to go, lots of arts, restaurants & entertainment...

  24. Nurse takes pic of patient's...

    Biker53 replied to Penelope_Pitstop's topic in Nursing News

    Maevish, the vast majority of nurses would never take such a photo, and in this case it was co-workers who did the right thing and turned her in. Hopefully the administrators applauded their doing...

  25. Assistants/transcribers for home care nurses

    Biker53 replied to Dun1203's topic in Home Health

    I agree, assuming the agency lets the patients know beforehand that the nurses would be bringing an assistant with them. And by that I mean making it clear rather than being buried in the fine print...