A man in a seemingly female driven career

Nursing is only female driven if you choose to look at it through that lens. I prefer to think of it as human driven.

Neither gender has a monopoly on focused, professional, dedicated caring. Should you run into resistance, treat it with professionalism. We are not female nurses, or male nurses. We are simply nurses. We are professionals. At least that's how I like to view the microcosm of nursing.

It seems the male to female ratio is about 1:3 in ICU and ER, all the other dude nurses i know including myself work in those 2 fields not sure why. I almost never saw a male nurse working the floor when i ran EMS and in my clincals as a student it also held true. Some people will always view nursing as a female job but what r you going to do. In the few cases outside of work when someone has been a real a-hole about it and tried to make me seem less manly then they r my response is to ask them how they would feel about getting beat up by a male nurse, its kind of juvinile but it makes me feel better and usually gets a laugh. Once a janitor at work made a comment to me in front of co-workers and I replied "Yeah I know real men wax floors and transport dirty linien." Bottom line, we have a great job and at the end of the day thats all that matters.

I haven't run into that much opposition except for the occasional female patient who doesn't want a man doing personal care on her.
I did recently receive a catalog from a nurses supply company. There were 33 pages full of women's scrubs and 1 and a half pages for men. Now THAT's discrimination!

I am a man getting into nursing.. Starting this fall so 1.5 years to go. A lot of my male friends say, "Nursing? Isn't that an all woman job?" I say...."Think about what you just said. Is that a bad thing?" That shuts them up.