I've worked in two different states as a LTC CNA and have never been told I couldn’t work with a female patient. It’s usually my female patients who like me and my work ethics the best. I know at the hospital the patients don’t have much of a choice, if they get a male nurse then they have a male nurse.
Oh and be warned, the letters might change (CNA LPN RN BSNRN) but the politics don’t. I see it all the time. Nurses eat nurses. That’s just the way it is, the way it has been and the way it will always be.
If you really and truly want to do this, get you some LTC care experience; just do what you have to do. You need it. Also get yourself some skilled nursing and rehab experience. Do your dementia training and CPR. All of this will look good on your resume.
I wish you the best.
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