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Yeah and if your mom had had a rectal impaction,which is part of assessments for folks in rehab care and it was not discovered by this male nurse...it might have meant bigger issues for your mother then just immodesty. You think her MALE DOCOTORS are checking such regions every day? You know how many digital disimpactions I do in the ICU because her male or female nurses have not discovered such issues which often are the cause for the cardiac arrythmias that brought her to my ICU in the first place?(and no the doctors male or female haven’t checked “there” as well!)

Nursing isn’t just about the tenderness of mopped brows and kind words and 18th century notions,,,it’s also about the fierceness of the science and evidence based practice that allows one to blow the feeblest of life’s embers back into full flame.

Now we try to be accomodating if female nurses are available and such are desired but often there is not enough to go around just like there are not enough female doctors to go around. Also, many elderly female patients are in excess of 250 lbs or more so if you have a majority of rn’s around 140 lbs or so who are under 5’6” but you have guys who are in excess of 6’ and are very strong, just guess who is going to get 300 lb Miss Matilda in room 22? Males don’t get into the back problems or are on 12 weeks of maternity leave that many female nurses do. Males don’t call in sick very often or have the family issues the females have That’s the reality of it all!

I’ve raised 4 children and have been married 22 years, God has extended blessings to me that I don’t deserve and nursing has been a big part of it all!