The Guys Club: Guy Students Come on In!

Hey Darby!,

Last fall we were posting about embarassing uniforms, remember?

Glad to see your surviving.

Out of our initial class of 3/90+ there is one guy left who is taking a load of crap daily. I was the first to leave after N101. Glad that I did, but it is nice to see a screename I recognize.

Thier uniforms are still bad. When women don't want to wear the girlish uniforms, men sure as heck don't!!LOL

Hey guys....

I to am a male nursing student in an ADN program, also currently looking at RN to BSN programs. I finished my first semester, and will be starting my second this coming Thursday.

I am in a class of 60 with about 8 guys.

I was a originally a nursing major about 14 years ago in college, but was 18, away from home and partied way to much. I was about to flunk out and my father told me he would only continue to pay for school if I got an accounting (he's an accontant, my grandfather was an accountant, etc. etc. etc.) degree and got my cr*p together. So, I graduated with a degree in accounting and have worked in health care companies, insurances and HMO's since I graduated. I had been laid off from countless insurance companies through the years and I finally decided that I would go back and do what I really wanted to in the first place. My wife was completely supportive, and still is. When I finished my prereqs and was accepted to nursing school, I was laid off from my last company three days before nursing school started. So, I have been taking advantage of my unemployment to concentrate on school. I will be eligable to sit for the LPN exam in December, and will start working then as a LPN, about the same time my unemployment runs out.

Thanks for starting this little guys club!

Hi Guys!!
...And I Do mean guys!! I am working in the human services field as a mental health worker and will be going to a part-time night time ADN school this september. At my school, you can't get a bachelors-- only women can. It is a predominantly woman's private catholic school. The ratio is 17 to 1, women to men. I am attending it because it is a great school. I look at it as a chance to develop a thick skin in a woman's world, because like it or not, the profession of nursing is composed of 96 percent women. My goals are to do case management work as a psych nurse and hopefully get the opportunity to do some time in ICU. I look forward to communicating to a lot of you later.

There is a women's college here (the one I'll be applying to for the BSN program, actually) that only started admitting men in the 80's.

Some guy sued them in 1982 because he was denied admission to the nursing program...

It's still a largely women's college, but their are some male students.. just quite the minority.

Here's a snippet about the case -

MUW was the oldest state-supported all-female college in the United States.
Did the state statute which prevented men from enrolling in MUW violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Yes. The Court held that the state did not provide an "exceedingly persuasive justification" for the gender-based distinction. The state's primary argument, that the policy constituted educational affirmative action for women, was "unpersuasive" to the Court since women traditionally have not lacked opportunities to enter nursing. If anything, argued Justice O'Connor, the statute "tends to perpetuate the stereotyped view of nursing as an exclusively women's job."

There are still a lot of female colleges in the U.S., most of which I believe are private. It's always puzzled me at how they can get away with not admitting men. Perhaps it's just that people don't tend to challenge it. There are so many schools to choose from, I personally wouldn't want to get into a big legal battle just so I could attend an all-female school. Doesn't really seem worth it.