What is it about competition and male nurses?

mcknis · Feb 17, 2009

i tried to get the video to play, but couldn't. Sometimes we have contests on who can leave the toilet seat up the longest, or who can make the most splashing on the rim of the toilet. ;-)

SteveNNP, MSN, NP · Feb 18, 2009

That video is nuts.....

Thank God it only took one try!

I remember what it was like to be an ER RN and go for the antecubital EVERY time, much to the despair of our Med/Surg and Tele coworkers....

Larry77, RN · Feb 19, 2009

We've had beard growing contests, w/c races, and urine retention contests (with the bladder scanner :)) to name a few...I like the IV contest...

Now it's turned into a NOC shift only thing...on day shift we don't have much opportunity to goof off...

netglow, ASN, RN · Feb 21, 2009

"i tried to get the video to play, but couldn't. Sometimes we have contests on who can leave the toilet seat up the longest, or who can make the most splashing on the rim of the toilet. ;-) -mcknis

So you guys DO do that on purpose... I've always thought that somehow that was a pt. or family member doing that in the staff bathroom! :barf02:

Galaknore · Feb 21, 2009

LOL! these are all great ideas. I may have to switch to nights. I have often wondered how nights passes the time.

Pat_Pat RN · Feb 24, 2009

I'm the only male nurse that works at this hospital....

...if I leave the lid up, or drip-drip, they all KNOW who it was!

choosier2003 · Feb 24, 2009

Men leaving the toillet seat up all the time, how rude the women always say. Well , I say, at least you know that they did actually lift it!! Its the guys that dont lift it that infuriate me, how discusting. And , why doesnt it go the other way, getting tired of those ladies leaving the toilet seat down all the time! lol

SteveNNP, MSN, NP · Feb 27, 2009

While we're on the subject of drops on the toilet seat, I'd venture to guess that many of our female coworkers have not lifted the seat and seen what THEY have left UNDER the seat.

Ruby Vee, BSN · Feb 27, 2009

dh used to have push-ups contests -- who could do the most push-ups in under a minute, or the most push-ups period. they've had chin-ups contests and one kicking contest -- who could kick the highest, leaving a footprint on the wall. (all of the he-men martial artists were devastated when the former ballet dancer, a notorious flamer, won.) there were arm wrestling contests, usually at the local pub after a long nightshift. (also beer drinking and shot drinking competitions.) there was a contest to see who could date the most travel nurses, or who could get a date with the most stand-offish travel nurse. there was a contest to see who could lift the most weight -- in the form of co-workers, who then had to stand on the scale to prove who was the heaviest. and then there was the gross-out contest, which heralded the end of the contests -- they managed to gross out one of the guys -- the male assistant nurse manager. (it was actually a woman who accomplished that feat -- a baby stool in a sandwich.)