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....
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!
You rescue the security guard being beaten by a patient. Before hand the battleaxes, (nurses), didn't have a kind word to say. Afterward they said they didn't know what they would have done without me. Too late I had another contract.
Or when the patient asks if you are in med school. I say I went to Veterinary school but wasn't smart enough.
Or when the ladies are surprised how big and gentle you are.
Yep! I have a way with the ladies, they're all over 80.
Alot of older patients some times assume I am a doctor, or that I am in training to become one. They should that I'm not a doctor if I'm changing their attends.
Or you know you're a SINGLE male RN when your surrogate mother (an older female RN) brings you a plate of Thanksgiving dinner on night shift that she saved you from her family meal...
LOL!!! Great thread!!!! It's so funny to hear what yall really think!!! I will make it a point to TRY not go around my male co-workers and talk about female issues!! haha....but you know...I do love it when you help me out
LOL!!! Great thread!!!! It's so funny to hear what yall really think!!! I will make it a point to TRY not go around my male co-workers and talk about female issues!! haha....but you know...I do love it when you help me out
Whats sad is that we tru;y think and feel this way. Just yesterday a pts daughter came in that were really, ahem, great looking, but as a professional person I was not allowed to say, "Your daughters are hot!" I later told her (pt) that her daughters were really nice and pretty. Sounds kinda quaint, but trying to be a professional single guy around all of these cute girls.
...you use the employee bathroom and notice someone got some water spray on the toilet seat from washing/drying their hands - so you make sure you clean off the toilet seat because you KNOW that the next person who uses the bathroom with blame the only male nurse on the floor for peeing on the seat!
Don't know if this has been quoted already (there are many pages to this thread!!) but I had to laugh out loud at this. The soap dispenser in the bathroom in the staff lounge is right over the toilet, so soap and water are often dribbled onto the seat which is often wet when I go into the bathroom... I always make sure I wipe it off!
...You've wasted hours of time looking for Large gloves in patient's rooms
After working as the only male among the nursing/PCA staff on a unit for a year, the number of times I found two boxes of smalls and one medium (or vice versa) as I reached over to put on a pair of gloves!
- You know you're a male RN when you have to work hard to suppress your annoyance when you have to perform a lengthy procedure in a patient's room who chose to watch a soap or some other thing like that when you're trying to keep abreast of the score of an important post-season game (and every other patient seems to be watching the game).
I wanted to add to the above post that I have heard from patients about nurses who have shirked their duties while giving an inordinate attention to a game on tv. This, of course, is totally not cool.
For me, when a game is on tv in a patient's room, it provides me with an opportunity to start a conversation with the patient, and a quick check at one point is all I need to keep abreast of the game.
bigredrn57
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You rescue the security guard being beaten by a patient. Before hand the battleaxes, (nurses), didn't have a kind word to say. Afterward they said they didn't know what they would have done without me. Too late I had another contract.
Or when the patient asks if you are in med school. I say I went to Veterinary school but wasn't smart enough.
Or when the ladies are surprised how big and gentle you are.
Yep! I have a way with the ladies, they're all over 80.