I have to say I am not in agreement with you at all analee.
I love my job, I love being a nurse, I love doing the things within my skill-set as a nurse that I am legally licensed to do, one of which is injections, temps, and yes, that includes rectal temps as well, and enemas and suppositories.
However, with that being said,.....when I am clocked in I couldn't give two craps about my patient being good looking or not. As a matter of fact, I can even go as far as saying that I have never had an attractive patient. I can say this because when I'm at work, I'm all business.
The only pleasure I get from giving the above mentioned things to my patients at work is that I know that they are getting the best care they can, that I am skilled very well and know exactly what I am doing, and that I am doing what I have to do for and to them to fix and heal them.
Any good nurse will tell you, it's not giving the enemas that's the enjoyable part, it's knowing that you are doing something to heal them.
In my opinion there are no such things as attractive patients or unattractive patients, there are only patients.
And the thing I absolutely enjoy and love the most, is saying good-bye, knowing I have done the job I love and was made for.
But hey, you know, that's just me. I could be the exception, not the rule?