How many guys in your class?

Dabuggy · Dec 30, 2006

Hello, we have 20 in our LPN program and 12 in our RN program. No, I do not get the connection of the part about being 40 and not making it. Most of the males and females in our program over the age of 40 are extremely intelligent. In fact more younger students do not graduate. Sorry, I just don't make the connection.

Dabuggy

xptp29a · Dec 30, 2006

Dabuggy, maybe you misunderstood what Scrubz was trying to say? How I read it, the other guy in his class probably isn't going to graduate, irrespective of his age. It just so happend that the other guy was in his mid-40s but he very well could have been any age. I may be wrong but I don't think that Scrubz was trying to start an argument for younger vs. older people and their success rates in nursing school.

jov · Dec 30, 2006

There's 28 total people in my class and two of us are guys...Anyone else have any stories?

class of 70 (about 60 now) for a BSN, with 7 men. Haven't lost any of 'em yet though it was close in Foundations of Maternal-Newborn Nursing...

Scrubz · Dec 30, 2006

What I said had nothing to do with age or anything like that. The other guy either failed our nursing fundamentals theory class or the lab part and will have to wait until next year to retake the class. Unless he starts doing better then I wouldn't doubt if he dropped nursing. I meant to take that sentence out of my post but I guess I forgot! Plus he never seemed very enthusiastic about nursing to begin with, but I don't know.

Yeah, I can see how you wouldn't get that just by me saying what I said, so sorry about that one!

Dabuggy · Dec 31, 2006

Ok, Thank you for clarifying that. I stand corrected. That is why I answered your question with the#'s in the first sentence. There was something I guess I read into it about age. Sorry for the misinterpretation.

Dabuggy

Siouxz2 · Dec 31, 2006

We started with about 75 in our class; 10 of those were men. I think we graduated 42; about 7 guys were left. I loved the guys in my class. They were so much fun, and very dedicated (I'm 45 and these guys were mostly my sons' ages. They were like my surrogate kids). In fact, a 30-something married father of 3 was class valedictorian. Also, most of the male nurses I worked with during clinicals were fantastic.

gentle_ben_RN, ASN · Dec 31, 2006

I graduated 3 years ago from an ADN program. We atarted with about 40 students (only 4 guys) and graduated with 29 (only 2 guys including me). The guy I graduated with was 41 years old and a great friend and excellent nurse. There was a broad age spectrum in my class. We were all very close and considered one another family. Some of us still stay in touch and go on vacations together when we can.

West_Coast_Ken, BSN, RN · Dec 31, 2006

We have 31 in our ADN program, 5 men and so far we have not lost any students at all. One sememster to go!

Sillynicunurse · Dec 31, 2006

Started with 31 in our class with one male and he didn't come back after summer. Don't know what happened to him.

focker-male nurse · Dec 31, 2006

I attend ADN program and we started out with 90 students of which 12 were males.

Now, last semester, I am one of 6 left.

jb2u, ASN, RN · Dec 31, 2006

Last semester.....57 students...5 of which are male!