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There's an agenda. Political and financial.
I think it happens as soon as they hit the floor. Pretty common theme, unfortunately...
You have no idea how hard it is for me to not go off.
What does this mean?
I've had a mix bag.
I agree. That's what have noticed as well. This is very anecdotal, of course, but the few male nurses I've met are pretty cool. Also, again very anecdotal, I've noticed that the nurses with the biggest attitude problems are NPs and RNs. CRNAs aren't so bad, although some of them think they can replace anesthesiologists, and LPNs, like touchpause said, aren't so bad. However, that's just what I've encountered.
Yeah, like I said before, my experiences are anecdotal. I think it just varies a lot. Perhaps by region, hospital, people.I've seen my uncle who is a nurse get uppity with docs before, but he has like a million years experience working in a rural hospital so I get it. But he's only one of like 3 male nurses I know so
I wonder if it's ego crushing for male nurses working under female physicians (especially the younger ones). I've seen a few bad interactions.
It's because nursing academia ingrains the bad attitudes.
I know very little about nursing academia, but I'd venture to say it's likelier that those people have had attitude problems their whole life, or they've developed it through work. Not because of their schooling. I could be wrong , however.
That reminded me of a time during high school when we had to do x amount of hours for community service. A couple of friends and I decided to volunteer at a hospital. The first thing one of the nurses who we were supposed to "help" said to us was, "what the hell are you guys doing? Go away." We explained to her our situation, and she allowed us to follow her around but she didn't let us help her at all. And yes, she treated us like we were born yesterday.
There was recently a scope of practice debate at my school between an AMA rep and a nursing union rep. Med students and nursing students were both invited. Med students were for the most part busy studying/researching/on rotations. The nursing administration made it a mandatory attendance event with sign in and organized rally posters. I couldn't hear more than two words from the AMA rep through all the booing.
Classy
I think that's just because a lot of nurses resent docs. Once you're a nurse, or in training, you learn to resent docs. Maybe that's ingrained in the students, maybe it's not. But I certainly think the half- decent ones can reject that indoctrination, if there is such a thing in nursing school.
The point out the story was to illustrate an example of the indoctrination.
Found this to be true. On my last rotation, I remember running into a male nurse of one of the patients I was following and figured to just ask "anything happen overnight" kinda thing. Something about his demeanor, nicest damn guy. I talked to him a few times throughout the rotation. Actually RIGHT after that convo, I was in the middle of the hallway, and a female nurse who was older bumped into me slightly and yelled "GET OUT OF MY WAY" and then told a transportation dude that he should answer the call phone when pts beeped in lel.
I do not understand this term; it wasn’t included in my programming.
Was this a middle school? Booing?
Jealous. They also think with a little more school and effort they'd be a doc.
They do run the hospital. Don't be surprised if you are employed at a hospital that a nurse administrator (nurse with mba) isn't way up the ladder from you, above attending docs.
Does this actually happen? I'm skeptical, but if it does happen, you have to keep it on the hush hush around here, else pre-allo will catch wind of it and then we'll have another thread about how being a resident makes you more attractive to women.
