Agreed.

If you don't act like a professional many patients won't treat you as such.  Here we go again, one nurse that says "ALL nurses do this" and "ALL nurses think that".  How could you possibly know that?  I have two aunts that are nurses.  Do you know what each of them thinks or how they act?

The fact is there are many good nurses and many bad nurses.  Many people who comment here have been unfortunate to get a bad nurse.  Don't call them liars and say ALL nurses act professionally.  Many don't.

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Initally eight female nurses-technicians were fired at an Arizonia hospital on June 29, 2009 for taking pictures of a males genitils,with a cell phone camera and sending them throughout the hospital, the patient latter died for reasons not specified. Some of the people fired must have been rehired after the investigation, the final outcome was four nurse-technicians. I have included a link to the story and did a copy paste of one of the articles. There were several that hit the internet about it, this one doesn't specify there gender, the others said they were all female nurses and technicians. This has happened at other facilities as well, it is a disturbing trend. HIPPA was set up to protect your medical records for privacy. We have no protection for bodily privacy in a medical setting (especially for men) just the person's word (Were All Professionals Here). The odd thing here or distrubing thing about this is you never hear about photos of women being taken and spread around the hospitals, that would be considered an outrage, and not tolerated by anyone. There would be a whistle blower somewhere to stop it, men are fair game. Although in this instance I believe it was a female nurse that saw the pictures after everyone in the hospital viewed them that turned in the guilty parties, God Bless Her. I'm not sure how to ensure this dosen't happen to anyone in the future male or female, you can train to be a professional but its whats inside each individual's head after that training. Just because they earn a degree and are qualified dosen't mean they aren't a perv. In fact what better place to work if you were, it would be like a gay boy scout Master or Gym teacher. Somehow these people need to be checked more closely, I'm sure for the most part the majority are caring and wonderful care givers.

 Lefteddie