Huh? I simply have nothing at all to report about male RNs. My experience with them has been extremely limited. You can read negativity into that if you must, but it certainly wasn't implied.
Up until nursing school I'd never met or had a male one. Which isn't to say anything positive or negative about male nurses.
... I must nothing! I find it odd you have limited experience working with male nurses, which have every right to the nursing profession as females.
I'm not alone on this thread with my dislike of whites & the nostalgic nurses cap. Again, I have all the respect in the world of the history of nursing, both from the female & male perspective. I hope you read my post regards to the importance male's have played in the histrory of nursing.
BTW, my intentions here are not to banter back & forth with you, please.
Oh, just go ahead and laugh in my face. You just did, in the name of "honesty."
Ah, youth. SO many things read into a simple couple of paragraphs.
You work with a couple of men on every shift? That's nice. The hospital in which I'm working has a grand total of one male RN doing med/surg patient care. The rest are in the OR or ER. Gender bias or preference? I don't know, nor am I concerned.
Of the four men in my class, one wants OR, one is a flight paramedic and wants to keep doing it but for more money, one's an ER tech and will go back to the ED, and one is hoping to use nursing school as an entree into medical school. That leaves 28 women willing to give bed baths and wipe butts if they don't, as so many of them want to do, go into maternity.
Yes, many male nurses end up in the adrenaline & hi-tech areas of nursing such as CRNA, OR, ED, ICU, Telemetry. Yet, be advised as a male nurse w/both OR & ICU experience I've performed many a patient hygiene care. Plus, my wife, an RN +12 yrs, would never work OB/Gyn. Are you now saying that only Med/Surg & OB/Gyn [which I admire both] nurses are worthy of the RN title?
I now understand your still a nursing student, rather than a seasoned nurse at the age of 52. At first, I thought you were a seasoned nurse saying you'd never worked with a male RN. My apologies for the misread. BTW, being that I'm now closer to 50 than 40 I'm in no way implying 52 is old.
"Ah youth" Thanks if I'm still in the youth category at the age of 45, then thanks.
Nursing caps were discontinued by the efforts of infection control. It was found that they harbored multiple bacteria and were not able to be cleaned properly (daily). Everytime the nurse attempted a sterile procedure it was compromised by the cap being over the field. Infection control is now trying to stop MD's from wearing neckties for the same reason. They are even worse because they dangle and the MD's are always touching them with their hands. I predict 5 years and no more neckties in hospitals.
No more neckties in the hospitals worn by healthcare professionals would be fine with me. I have never liked wearing a necktie. Not than I'm an MD, yet I am a guy.
I find it odd you have limited experience working with male nurses, which have every right to the nursing profession as females.
Of course they do. Where have I said they don't?
I'm not alone on this thread with my dislike of whites & the nostalgic nurses cap.
Hey, I never said I'm wearin' the cap. One big reason that I will wear whites is the population I mostly see in the hospital - old people - immediately recognize someone in white as a nurse, and they find it very comforting. That has been expressed to me in many ways.
BTW, my intentions here are not to banter back & forth with you, please.
So stop bantering.
Are you now saying that only Med/Surg & OB/Gyn [which I admire both] nurses are worthy of the RN title?
A bit sensitive, no? I never said any such thing. However, the guys are less visible in the testosterone departments.
I now understand your still a nursing student, rather than a seasoned nurse at the age of 52. At first, I thought you were a seasoned nurse saying you'd never worked with a male RN. My apologies for the misread. BTW, being that I'm now closer to 50 than 40 I'm in no way implying 52 is old.
"Ah youth" Thanks if I'm still in the youth category at the age of 45, then thanks.
And another reason I'll wear white is because, as an old fart in whites, I will be mistaken for knowing more than I do. There's one advantage to being a semi-fossil. The kids can laugh at me behind my back for being in a time warp.
And yeah, 45 was a good year, you sweet young thang, you. :)
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That's one reason never to go back to the white and caps because it would be gender biased. I also think it is an antiquated image that a lot of people still have in regards to nurses, one that casts us in that subservient handmaiden role that in general still holds the profession back in terms of being taken seriously. We need to strive for a newer image that will move us forward.
Gotta agree... As far as the patients not knowing who or what I am, they'd figure it out quickly enough once I come to their bedside and tell them why I was there.
The ceremony promoted school loyalty and pride and inspired students to persevere through the rigours of training ahead. Part of the ritual was a vow to behave ethically and honour her profession. An indication of the solemnity of the capping ceremony can be gleaned from a speech given at the 1945 capping ceremony at the Memorial Hospital, St. Thomas, Ontario. A copy of the speech was given to each "probie" along with her cap.
Wearing the cap was a privilege, and a nurse in training could have her cap revoked if she trangressed school rules.
Each hospital designed its own uniform. A lot of thought went into the image the hospital wished to convey, and the resulting designs reflect sometimes contradictory messages about nursing as a profession. The designs alternately conveyed servitude, yet authority, domestic service, yet professionalization. They were meant to be simply functional, yet were also emblematic.
Caps were no longer required at the facility I worked at when I started nursing, white uniforms were. Although it was not required to wear caps, there were a few who chose to wear theirs. I asked one of my co-workers who still wore hers why she still chose to wear it. To her it was a priviledge she had earned and took pride in. Believe me, according to her she really did earn it. I certainly didn't think she was wrong to feel that way and respected her choice. Her path to becoming a nurse was far different than my experience. It was a path taken 30 years earlier by her.
For myself, my view of the nursing profession has continued to change since I experienced my first impression of what it was. I don't feel it was ever the white cap or uniform that made the nursing profession what it was then or what it has become now. It was always the people that chose the profession that made it what it was, and it will be the people that choose the profession today that will make it what it will be tomorrow.
I graduated in 1989 from nursing school. I remember we voted to either have a capping ceremony or not and to wear our caps for our graduation pics or not.
I wore mine all of the time at work for about 3 years. I was used to it, I guess. When I moved to a big city in the early 90's, I wore it one day and people looked at me like I had just smoked a bunch of ditchweed!
Haven't worn one since. I, too heard that it was an infection control issue.
Currently caps are not worn at my facility. I returned to the same place that I did all of my clinicals in many years ago, and back then you never saw a nurse w/o a cap with the exception of the surgical dept.
I almost wish I could wear one again, it would maybe cover the balding spot I have from when I did wear one! :rotfl:
I wore mine all of the time at work for about 3 years. I was used to it, I guess. When I moved to a big city in the early 90's, I wore it one day and people looked at me like I had just smoked a bunch of ditchweed!
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When I graduated in 1980, we wore whites and caps. In 1986 or 1987, the caps went away. Now I get to wear pretty dresses every day to the office. At times recently I worked on site at hospitals, there were always one or two nurses who still wore the whites and caps. I think my cap was cool looking, but I would never wear it again. Some caps were really fugly.
I wore mine all of the time at work for about 3 years. I was used to it, I guess. When I moved to a big city in the early 90's, I wore it one day and people looked at me like I had just smoked a bunch of ditchweed!
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When I graduated in 1980, we wore whites and caps. In 1986 or 1987, the caps went away. Now I get to wear pretty dresses every day to the office. At times recently I worked on site at hospitals, there were always one or two nurses who still wore the whites and caps. I think my cap was cool looking, but I would never wear it again. Some caps were really fugly.
Sadly, I don't own a cap anymore. :uhoh21: Should have held onto one of my two...oh well live and learn. It had like an ice-blue colored stripe on it. I thought it was cool!
Gotta agree... As far as the patients not knowing who or what I am, they'd figure it out quickly enough once I come to their bedside and tell them why I was there.
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Up until nursing school I'd never met or had a male one. Which isn't to say anything positive or negative about male nurses.
I'm not alone on this thread with my dislike of whites & the nostalgic nurses cap. Again, I have all the respect in the world of the history of nursing, both from the female & male perspective. I hope you read my post regards to the importance male's have played in the histrory of nursing.
BTW, my intentions here are not to banter back & forth with you, please.