“Plus they had male nurses taking care of the elderly women, and we girls did not like that at all.”
HEY...I RESEMBLE THAT THAR REMARK!...(though the ICU is my abode!)
I am assuming that you are a male nurse. Please don’t be insulted, but, as a woman, I do not want a man as a nurse for some care. Usually, in the ICU you are taking vital signs and monitoring systems that would not offend my modesty, I assume, so that is a different story.
In the place I am describing— and perhaps in many other health care facilities these days, for all I know — there was a male nurse who came in to perform a rectal exam on my dear 94-year-old mother while I was there. I objected.