u/BornLeave4646

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6 year old came into the ER after a car crash, clutching this little paper crane. Kid wouldn't let go of it for anything, not for the exam, not for X-rays, nothing. He kept asking "Where's Mama? Is Mama coming?"

We didn't know. Separate ambulances, different hospitals initially. All we could tell him was that we were trying to find out.

Three hours later, she gets wheeled in from the other facility. Banged up pretty good, broken ribs, concussion, lots of bruising, but stable. The second that kid saw her gurney come through the doors, he jumped off his bed and ran straight to her.

Still had that paper crane in his little fist the whole time.

Found out later she'd made it for him that morning before school. "For good luck," she told him.

Guess it worked.

I’m curious about people’s opinions on this. A new grad rn on my unit can’t take care of any male patients because of her religious beliefs. She cannot approach or talk to male patients alone and especially can’t help them with using the restroom or cleaning up. The only (kind of major) issue with this is we work on a trauma ICU. At the very least our unit is 50% males and 99% of the time they need assistance with cleaning.

My unit has bent over backwards to accommodate this nurse to the point where they’ll give another nurse a heavier, less safe assignment or switch assignments mid shift in order to not assign this nurse a male patient. This nurse also won’t respond to codes or patient emergencies if the patient is male because of the risk of seeing them in a state of undress. Not to mention just simple tasks like asking another nurse to help with a cleanup or calling on a buddy to lay eyes on your patient is made more difficult when this nurse has an assignment next to yours.

I have really mixed feelings about it and everyone on my unit seems scared to talk about it and risk coming off as a bigot or insensitive. What are your thoughts on the matter?