“50 per cent of the females I work with are divorced with issues(drinking, drugs, multiple affairs). About 15 per cent are lesbian and loudly proclaim it! “
Good heavens!!! How many of the male nurses are taking drugs do you gather? Just wondering.
Perhaps the term “drugs” is rather vague and needs more “nuance”. It could be prescription anxiolytics, anti depressants, or pot. Quite a few examples of “talk about heavy drinking at the party the other night”.
Then of course we have the med diverters but that is far more serious case. There was one male diverter that I caught and turned in and others caught 2 females in the last 5 years at least on my unit.
I’d say male RN’s don’t have the sole franchise on pathological behaviors in hospitals and neither do the women.