House MD homage

Posted our House MD video to the site. I hope you enjoy it – we had fun putting it together. And it turned out to be a good way to get refreshed on all the drama from previous seasons before the finale.

Link here: http://www.lpn.com/house-homage

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1. Aoi says:

   July 14, 2012 at 1:18 am

   Other than Labor and Delivery, nurses that are male are in just about every unit of the hisaotpl setting.Before someone brings in a gender bias comment:One of the practical reasons that this is a rare thing to have male nurses in OB (Labor/Delivery and Postpartum) has to do with economics and budgeting ..most OB patients (especially those in labor) are not comfortable with a male nurse, even though about 50% of OB/GYN’s are male and that patient may have chosen a male doc. Well, if you know anything about Maternity nursing, you’ll realize that the care we provide is MUCH more intimate in nature than the doc that comes in at the last minute to catch the baby or do a C-section.Also, every time a male nurse would do a cervical check on the patient, he’d have to have a female tech or nurse in the room with him. Same with any other intimate contact. Figure that in with the cost of an additional staff member available to this nurse at all times, and it’s not cost effective ..techs usually make around $ 12-16 an hour and RN’s are at $ 23+), so a male nurse would cost the unit a lot of extra money. Also, patients can (and do) refuse certain caregivers and this would also mean that every time a male OB nurse is working, there has to be readily available back-up (another RN that could be making anywhere from $ 23-40+ an hour) to take over if a patient refused care. This is far from being financially feasible. We’ve had several male nurses apply to our unit, but it just wasn’t in the budget to hire them, because we’d have to staff another nurse with them at all times .For postpartum, every time you’d need to help with breastfeeding .you need the tech to come into the room with you; same with checking the healing status of an episiotomy.My favorite RN in Emergency happens to be male and the best CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist) that I’ve worked with is also male. He was one incredible Critical Care RN prior to becoming a CRNA.Since I seriously doubt you wanted to work in OB anyway, I would encourage you to pursue a career in nursing ..it’s a great field to work in!

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