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....
I would much rather wear "rumpled pajamas" than wear a *******' shirt and tie for eight, nine, ten hours a day, like I have been for the past 20 or so years!
...You wished you had a dollar for every time a little old lady said, "Are you studying to be a doctor?"
...At the beginning of Football season you suddenly grow very religious and need every Sunday off
...You go to change a patient and they look at you and say, "YOU are going to clean me up?"
...You have an 5 patient assignment but know every patient on the floor because you have helped moved every single one of them up in bed.
...Your phone is constantly ringing with people asking, "Equipment X broke, do you know how to fix it?"
...You've hit your head numerous times on the traction bars attached to the beds.
...You've wasted hours of time looking for Large gloves in patient's rooms
...You are afraid of being attacked leaving work by all the male patient's you've been "asked" to put foleys in.
...You've heard too many stories from patients that start with, "I had a MALE nurse when I had my..."
...You have mild PTSD from your postpartum rotation with flashbacks of your insructor and you standing in a bathroom with your nude patient, your instructor grabbing the pad from the patient and holding it up to you, saying, "This is MODERATE Rubra".
...You get excited whenever you are in the male nursing forum on allnurses.com and see that your feelings are shared and universal...
Nick, we know exactly how ya feel man, but about the foley thing, I have had the same experience when the psych nurses call you because they need the guys to help hold down another victim... I love coming here and hearing what others go through! It is just great!
I would much rather wear "rumpled pajamas" than wear a *******' shirt and tie for eight, nine, ten hours a day, like I have been for the past 20 or so years!
Heh, I come home from work, shower, and put a clean pair of scrub pants on to sleep in. There's just no beating wearing soft, breathable, nonconstrictive, easily washable clothes to work...
I too put my scrubs on when I get home Steve...to relax, to mow the lawn, to go grocery shopping! And then best type of scrubs...the ones they tube up from the OR when you have something all over you usual garb. You "accidently" forget to give them back and are seen wearing them by the neighbors when you go to get the mail with a cup of coffee in your hand in the morning...
I've been known to wear scrub bottoms to the grocery store. Not trying to sound like a pig, but they are a chick magnet. The smiles multiply greatly from ladies. Sure, they probably think im a neurosurgeon...but I'll take it.
I've been known to wear scrub bottoms to the grocery store. Not trying to sound like a pig, but they are a chick magnet. The smiles multiply greatly from ladies. Sure, they probably think im a neurosurgeon...but I'll take it.
Either that, or the smiles are from seeing your pink-heart boxers through the scrub fabric...
Patrick57
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I would much rather wear "rumpled pajamas" than wear a *******' shirt and tie for eight, nine, ten hours a day, like I have been for the past 20 or so years!