It's about time for a new thread to breathe life into this tired forum.....
Here we go!
You know you're a male RN when:
- You constantly complain to coworkers that your scrubs are too short, (since when is 33 long a "tall"?) and you have no boobs to fill your unisex scrub top.
- You get offended glances as you eat your cheeseburger and fries at lunch from your coworkers who are on the "lean cuisine" diet...
-People assume you, having a pair, possess the superhuman strength to lift the 350lb lady in someone else's room, regardless of the fact that several of your female coworkers look tough enough to whup yer @$$...
-Your credentials should read: RN-NWP (registered nurse, nurse with prostate)
-Your PMS detection skills are at an all-time high along with your avoidance maneuver techniques...
-You feel like you're either married to, or being a daddy to everyone else in your unit....
Surely there must be some attractive, single doctor out there, looking for a trophy husband...
Attractive female doctor? I've never seen one!
Well, okay, there was one, but she was doing a circumcision at the time. Taking knife to pee-pee is an automatic MAJOR loss of hot points, even if it isn't mine.
I tried to play the guy version of "He's really hot" with two nurses drooling over a male doc. I indicated that I thought the female doc also on the floor was pretty cute, and was promptly given a list of all the reasons that she was a "skank". :trout: So much for bonding.
Well, okay, there was one, but she was doing a circumcision at the time. Taking knife to pee-pee is an automatic MAJOR loss of hot points, even if it isn't mine.
I tried to play the guy version of "He's really hot" with two nurses drooling over a male doc. I indicated that I thought the female doc also on the floor was pretty cute, and was promptly given a list of all the reasons that she was a "skank". :trout: So much for bonding.
OldPhatMC
Yes, the "She's really hot" game does tend to play better with other males, but the gals I work with are as tolerant of my evil thoughts as I am of theirs.
One difference I've noticed is that if an older, female patient hits on me, it's amusing--to everyone--but if an older male hits on a female nurse, it may be cute, or it may be disgusting. I don't think this is sexist, though. Some old guys are harmless flirts, and some are just vulgar and scary. Female pts are generally harmless flirts, and even if they aren't, they aren't scary. I have--once--had my assignment changed because of a younger female's inappropriate remarks, though. It didn't occur to me, but when I mentioned it to my charge, in passing, she wisely got me out of there. I'm glad she was looking out for me, because after the fact it occurred to me that it could have become a real problem.
Ok, I'm a nursing student and went to use one of the bathrooms in the old womans dorm, marked MEN of course. But after carefully preparing the toilet and sitting down for a BM, I realized the water level in the toilet was a little too high..
Ok, I'm a nursing student and went to use one of the bathrooms in the old womans dorm, marked MEN of course. But after carefully preparing the toilet and sitting down for a BM, I realized the water level in the toilet was a little too high..
I'm just a nursing student, but a buddy of mine was complaining about his back hurting, so i said, "you wuss, you're young too, why are you whining about your back?"
He said, "It's because I spend my days sliding boards under 450lb fatties"
As much as you try, you still bust when someone...anyone... lets one rip out loud, all the while the women around you just shake their heads in disappointment at your immaturity.
Not imaturity, I say, just a genetic male propensity to find the inherent humour in the release of...bwahhhhhhaaaaahaaaaa :rotfl:
You're the only one in the room who remains dead silent while everyone else is going on about the nurse who's working and "PMS-ing" because you know better than to give your opinion on the subject
Specializes in Step-down/tele, home care, corrections.
This thread is a scream . . .
I'l be starting my first nursing job in June, and after reading the PMS comments, I'll interested to see if my GF can get in sync with the women at work! Maybe I'll write a paper for one of the journals.
The scrubs are awful. The only pants that seem to be made for a guy are the Landau 8555 - thicker material, fly, pockets, cargos, drawstring. We had them for school, and the women would buy them because you couldn't see their thongs through them. Another hospital nearby lets the ED nurses wear dockers/cargos with tees or polos (or scrubs, it they want), but most of us have to wear a unicolor set. Just what I want to do - get educated to be a professional nurse, then go to work in rumpled pajamas. Any other ideas out there?
I precepted in a hospital, and a fairly new hire came up to me when I was standing with my preceptor and said that she was "s-o-o-o-o glad that I was working there, and" she wished that "more of 'us' would apply to work there, and . . ."
"STOP," I said, "Don't say it!"
But she did, " . . . we could have some help moving the big patients"
The preceptor looked like a deer in the headlights.
OldPhatMC
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Attractive female doctor? I've never seen one!
Well, okay, there was one, but she was doing a circumcision at the time. Taking knife to pee-pee is an automatic MAJOR loss of hot points, even if it isn't mine.
I tried to play the guy version of "He's really hot" with two nurses drooling over a male doc. I indicated that I thought the female doc also on the floor was pretty cute, and was promptly given a list of all the reasons that she was a "skank". :trout: So much for bonding.
OldPhatMC