Any males out there tired of the drama?

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Anyone out there get real tired about the constant drama, anxiety, and non stop worrying exerted by your female classmates? To me, it seems like the majority of them have nothing to talk about other than nursing school, tests, and frustrating about clinicals/instructors. This becomes very irritating for me anyways. Just wanted to know if any other guys out there find it highly annoying?

If you're doing so well in your classes then why are you concerning yourself with the fact that other students are worried and studying and/or talking about school all the time. I'm not trying to be mean but I don't get how exactly their worrying about wanting to do well really affects you at all. Not everyone can breeze through nursing school like you've claimed to do and there shouldn't be anything wrong with that. If you guys are so good at it, then fine, be good at it, but I don't really get how it has anything to do with how the other students in the class should act. However by the way you've mentioned how you don't really want to be a nurse Humpty Dumpty, that could be one of the key differences and anyway, isn't the way that they worry and stress and constantly talk about nursing school kind of similar to the way you worry and get frustrated over how much they do it?

First of all, you are correct. I do not like nursing AT ALL... This is a means to an end, nothing more, either it be NP or CRNA school. It just angers me that these people feel it necessary to put their anxiety and worry on other people, that is all. For the most part I ignore it, but jeez, after a year of ignoring it, I felt the need to come on here and vent. The super type A personalities of most of my fellow classmates just irritates me. They think nursing is this high and mighty profession, but you know? Its just a job, get over yourselves, theres much more difficult things out there.

Specializes in Telemetry & PCU.
First of all, you are correct. I do not like nursing AT ALL... This is a means to an end, nothing more, either it be NP or CRNA school. It just angers me that these people feel it necessary to put their anxiety and worry on other people, that is all. For the most part I ignore it, but jeez, after a year of ignoring it, I felt the need to come on here and vent. The super type A personalities of most of my fellow classmates just irritates me. They think nursing is this high and mighty profession, but you know? Its just a job, get over yourselves, theres much more difficult things out there.

It may be a means to an end for you and that is perfectly OK. However, I do not think it is just a job. It is much more than that.

Specializes in Telemetry & PCU.

I believe that this thread has been hijacked by a us vs them sentiment or the verse in the old show tune 'I can do anything better than you'. That isn't what the thread is about. In this instance it is about our reaction to our female counterpart's reactions to stress or perhaps (in some cases) life itself.

This is the Male Nursing Student Thread where manly men in nursing school discuss manly things! Lurkers beware; you might not hear what you want to hear....... :D

Specializes in ER.

Female here, and I agree with the OP. It was hard but no worse than any other course. Mostly I hated the APA formatting.

Specializes in Family Practice, Primary Care.

There are many females at my nursing school that hate the other females for ******** and moaning about everything. I am getting really, really sick of the constant complaining about EVERYTHING. And so I now make it known when someone starts to ***** about something.

TRUE - another woman here and I HATE the drama! So I avoid it like the plague ;) I got into nursing school by myself, for myself, so I don't mind going through nursing school that way...I'm friendly and not a snob...but I don't require that my classmates like me...just respect me...and please keep the theatrics and whining to a low roar:twocents:

Specializes in Med-Surg, Trauma, Ortho, Neuro, Cardiac.

I'm sure if you took another look, you'd find that it's not everyone and it's not "constant" and "nonstop". There has to be a few functioning people in the class other than you.

But yeah, the worrywarts and drama queens are irritating.

But for some people it might not be "just a job". It might be their only way out of an abusive relationship, poverty, domineering parents, any number of things besides "just a job" or a means to an end.

But for some people it might not be "just a job". It might be their only way out of an abusive relationship, poverty, domineering parents, any number of things besides "just a job" or a means to an end.

Isn't that the point of most jobs?

I think the OP meant that nursing isnt some divine calling passed down from the heavens, and which im inclined to agree with. I think nursing is certainly a respectable profession and a vital part of a functioning society, but its still a cog in a machine. There is nothing inherently sacred or transcendental about it. Any meaning people find in it is purely the constructs of their minds. But I feel the same way about anything, so if it lets them get through the day, I dont particularly care. That is until they get all emotional and sanctimonious...

Isn't that the point of most jobs?

I think the OP meant that nursing isnt some divine calling passed down from the heavens, and which im inclined to agree with. I think nursing is certainly a respectable profession and a vital part of a functioning society, but its still a cog in a machine. There is nothing inherently sacred or transcendental about it. Any meaning people find in it is purely the constructs of their minds. But I feel the same way about anything, so if it lets them get through the day, I dont particularly care. That is until they get all emotional and sanctimonious...

Exactly, I could not have put it any better. What I meant is that some of these people treat nursing as if it is the meaning of their existence. But really, when you talk to most nurses 5 years out of school, they will tell you "Its just a job" and that they rarely think about it outside of work. It was so funny, the other day in clinical a senior student was doing her practicum on the floor I was on. From observing her behavior and interactions with the other nurses, it was easy to tell she was the "type" of person I have described earlier. Whats funny is that after she walked away, the nurses were just like "Jeez, she really annoys me." Which is why I'm inclined to believe that most of these nursing instructors could not make it in the real world and try to make us nursing students into what they are, but in reality, it just is not realistic.

Specializes in neurotrauma ICU.

Ok, I am not the type to lurk on boards I have no attachment to...as I am not an ostomy nurse I don't hang out on that board, ya dig? But, I couldn't help myself when I saw the title, I had to check it out.

Um, those ladies who are coming on here and complaining....YOU ARE MAKING THE OP'S POINT FOR HIM!:rolleyes:

I get tired of the drama too. Then again...sometimes I am part of it. It is all part of the fun of being a woman. *sigh*

Specializes in Med-Surg, Trauma, Ortho, Neuro, Cardiac.
Isn't that the point of most jobs?

I think the OP meant that nursing isnt some divine calling passed down from the heavens, and which im inclined to agree with. I think nursing is certainly a respectable profession and a vital part of a functioning society, but its still a cog in a machine. There is nothing inherently sacred or transcendental about it. Any meaning people find in it is purely the constructs of their minds. But I feel the same way about anything, so if it lets them get through the day, I dont particularly care. That is until they get all emotional and sanctimonious...

It didn't appear to me he was talking about the "angels of mercy" "nursing is a calling types"....those type of people actually seem to be confident and secure in the "calling", and don't seem the anxious worrisome types at all. For me it was just a job, and still is. But when I was in nursing school, it was do or die, and was a huge part of my "existence" at the time, the most important part, because failure meant starting over, staying at minimum wage jobs, loosing my self-respect and disappointing my family, it's a bit more than "just school to get a job". Of course now that it's over, it's only one aspect of a multi-faceted self-actualized life. LOL

It sounded more like he was talking about worriers and type A personalities, which are indeed irritating. My point was instead of judging someone's insides by their outsides, stop to think that perhaps there's more to it. But if it makes one feel better to vent and feel better than, then go for it.

Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress by John Gray, PhD. It's true,,I let it add stress to MY life until I finally accepted that men and women are DIFFERENT in most evey way. BTW, I'm female, 54 years young, worked outside nursing until I went back to school at 52, and there is nothing any different from the way my fellow students or current coworkers are in the nursing profession than there was in my previous profession. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. All that and $5 will get ya a cuppa coffee,,,,but I DO feel your pain!

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