Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

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Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by SleepyGramps » Tue Nov 24, 2015 7:14 am

Ever since I first donned a CPAP mask, I have had positive feelings toward it. Why? Well, on that fateful night, May 16-17 1990, a nurturing female nurse waited on me. Since then, I have associated CPAP with being nurtured and cared for. Much later, in my second sleep study, I had a male nurse attach those damn annoying sensors which got in the way when I had to get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom, but my positive attitude toward CPAP was already ingrained.

So is this something that the medical community overlooks? Shouldn't all sleep study nurses be nurturing females? At least for guys? I don't know about gals.
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Edit: "attractive" changed to "nurturing" because "attractive" attracts trolls.
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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by Sheriff Buford » Tue Nov 24, 2015 7:19 am

Really????

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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by SleepyGramps » Tue Nov 24, 2015 7:48 am

Really, Sheriff, and your son's fiancee would make an especially good sleep study nurse.

But seriously, as it says in the title, this is a THEORY.

In support of this theory, I would argue that women are more nurturing, or at least have a more nurturing image, than men. Is it OK, in this politically correct age, to say that there are differences between the sexes?

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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by library lady » Tue Nov 24, 2015 11:28 am

Some women are NOT nurturers (my grandmother was one of those, she ruined my childhood self-esteem, if I ever had any back then). Conversely, some men are quite nurturing, as my dad was, while my mother also had low self-esteem. Therefore, I believe this theory is a generalization. Fortunately, I gained confidence in myself when moved 400 miles away from home after college 45 years ago.

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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by Heart Jumping » Tue Nov 24, 2015 9:51 pm

SleepyGramps wrote:Ever since I first donned a CPAP mask, I have had positive feelings toward it. Why? Well, on that fateful night, May 16-17 1990, an attractive female nurse waited on me. Since then, I have associated CPAP with being nurtured and cared for. Much later, in my second sleep study, I had a male nurse attach those damn annoying sensors which got in the way when I had to get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom, but my positive attitude toward CPAP was already ingrained.

So is this something that the medical community overlooks? Shouldn't all sleep study nurses be attractive females? At least for guys? I don't know about gals.
Perhaps you should consult for the medical community ? You could advise them where to allocate the good looking nurses and doctors so they do the most good. For example:

- Apnea = Motivation needed, must be hot.
- Termnially Ill = They're going to die anyway, OK to be ugly.
- Diabetes = Motivation needed, but less, should at least be mildly hot.
- Heart attack = could be too much of a strain for their heart, should not be hot

Or something like that. I also think you should have chosen the user name HornyGramps.

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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by Goofproof » Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:02 pm

SleepyGramps wrote:Really, Sheriff, and your son's fiancee would make an especially good sleep study nurse.

But seriously, as it says in the title, this is a THEORY.

In support of this theory, I would argue that women are more nurturing, or at least have a more nurturing image, than men. Is it OK, in this politically correct age, to say that there are differences between the sexes?
Maybe Lizzy Borden, would make you a good Sleep Nurse,she might have some whacks left in her. Jim
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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by sleepylynn » Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:07 pm

Goofproof wrote: Maybe Lizzy Borden, would make you a good Sleep Nurse,she might have some whacks left in her. Jim
At any rate, sleep apnea would no longer be at the top of your worry list.

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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by chunkyfrog » Tue Nov 24, 2015 10:16 pm

Mine was female, patient, and kind.
I don't think it made much difference.
Maybe if theLankyLefty had shown up; (grrrowwwl)

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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by SleepyGramps » Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:08 am

Heart Jumping wrote:I also think you should have chosen the user name HornyGramps.
I wrote "attractive", not "hot". I felt that she was nurturing, like a mother. She was putting me to bed, like my mother or grandmother often did.

Damn, I shouldn't have used "attractive". It's like honey drawing flies.

Thanks to the few who got the point and gave interesting replies.

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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by AlabamaAl » Wed Nov 25, 2015 6:19 am

Most men would rather have a "Hot Mama" tuck them in for the night, than a "hairy ape". Are you sure she didn't mistakenly give you a Viagra in place of the sleeping pill? You do know that the entire sleep event was recorded for posterity on video... See you on Youtube..

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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by SleepyGramps » Wed Nov 25, 2015 6:45 am

Here's another way to look at it, smart a**es: Google 'sleep lab atmosphere' and see all the references to a warm, comfortable, calming decor. Shouldn't the nurse also be warm, comfortable and calming? And this is not about sex. GET SEX OUT OF YOUR DIRTY MINDS -- for just a minute, anyway.
Those with a negative initial perception of CPAP from the sleep lab are likely to be less enthusiastic about using the device at home
http://www.aasmnet.org/jcsm/ViewAbstract.aspx?pid=28854

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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by Heart Jumping » Wed Nov 25, 2015 8:06 am

So maybe someone like this Gramps?

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Kidding aside, I get your point, I too like it when my nurses and doctors are attractive and nurturing, who wouldn't? But since this is 2015 and not 1915, and choosing people based on their sex or other qualities unrelated to competence is discriminatory and illegal, I assumed you were being tongue in cheek, so I was in return.

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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by SleepyGramps » Wed Nov 25, 2015 11:29 am

Ironic that I've recently been reading in my grandmother's five-year diary, in the year 1915. She had been a schoolteacher -- a woman's job, men were the principals and other administrators in the schools. Then she married and was now a stay-at-home mom while her husband was a lawyer -- a man's job -- and the breadwinner.

Fast forward to 2015, and now many men are teachers, and many women are lawyers, and some women are even firefighters or soldiers. And it's politically incorrect to suggest that women, in general, can't handle the physical requirements of some jobs. Similarly, I guess I have run into the political incorrectness to suggest that men, in general, aren't the best sleep-lab nurses.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/18/politics/ ... tion-navy/
"Marines may seek to keep women from some combat jobs"

http://nypost.com/2015/05/03/woman-to-b ... ness-test/
"Woman to become NY firefighter despite failing critical fitness test"

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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by Darth Lady » Wed Nov 25, 2015 2:41 pm

Actually they usually (often?) are Respiratory Therapists, with specialized training. They may or may not have nursing qualifications.

Mine was a male, who was good at his job, and perhaps more importantly, a CPAPer himself, so he got the issues involved with mask fitting, getting used to having air blown in your face and the weirdnesses of getting used to ASV. His gender didn't make any difference to me, although my poor husband did suffer through FOUR sleep studies with me in part because of religious issues and in part because we knew there was no way I was going to be able to drive home.

Now there's a man who deserves a medal.

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Re: Importance of Sleep Study Nurse (Theory)

Post by Wulfman... » Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:19 pm

SleepyGramps wrote:Ever since I first donned a CPAP mask, I have had positive feelings toward it. Why? Well, on that fateful night, May 16-17 1990, an attractive female nurse waited on me. Since then, I have associated CPAP with being nurtured and cared for. Much later, in my second sleep study, I had a male nurse attach those damn annoying sensors which got in the way when I had to get up in the middle of the night and go to the bathroom, but my positive attitude toward CPAP was already ingrained.

So is this something that the medical community overlooks? Shouldn't all sleep study nurses be attractive females? At least for guys? I don't know about gals.
I don't think I've actually CONSCIOUSLY thought about that, but maybe that's one reason I've had a positive attitude towards this therapy.......it sure WASN'T my sleep doctor. (unless my adversarial relationship with my sleep doctor made me more determined to succeed with this therapy in spite of him)
My sleep lab tech was also a very nice (and pretty) female. It was a split night study and afterwards she was nice enough to show me some of the video data that had been recorded.
In 2011 when I was in the hospital for pneumonia, she happened to come into my room (for some reason) and we got reacquainted and reminisced about her being the one who started the local sleep lab.


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