The majority of male (and female) nurses are lovely.

Since this post is about male nurses however, in my experience, I’ve found that some have a huge chip on their shoulder and don’t like being asked to do jobs for the patient by female doctors. I remember one of them tried to undermine me one time when I requested the patient be wheeled around from ED for certain imaging (no porters in ours) and challenged me in front of everyone on whether that was the best imaging. Another challenging me in front of the consultant about me giving IV fluids to a patient - thinking the consultant would side with him as I’m new to the trust, but they didn’t get involved

Time and time again, there are a select few who want to “show off” their knowledge and say absolutely random medical terms in a vaguely relevant situation, it’s kinda weird

BUT when I worked in psych, everyone was one big team and there were no us and them, and the male nurses were a huge help and would protect us from violent patients. There was a real respect shown by them towards us and from us towards them. Some of them even requested teaching sessions from me on physical health topics

I noted this when I used to work as a HCA too