fakenurse

fakenurse has 9 years experience and specializes in Research/ED.

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1. Is it possible to be a decent nurse if I'm a sociopath or have antisocial personality disorder?

   fakenurse replied to uniteddemclub's topic in General Nursing

   I cannot stop laughing at this post title.

2. Vanderbilt Direct Entry MSN 2023

   fakenurse replied to AlexiaPsychRN's topic in School Programs

   I can't decide if it's worse that they told us the date decisions will be out, or if it would be preferable to anxiously and obsessively check the website daily.

3. Feminism, Nursing, and Gender

   fakenurse replied to fakenurse's topic in Professionalism

   I think I've been under the assumption that as a society, we've mostly moved past assuming a man's sexual orientation based on his career. Sounds like it's still a major issue.

4. Feminism, Nursing, and Gender

   fakenurse replied to fakenurse's topic in Professionalism

   Thanks for sharing, Qedy. There is clearly a lot of work to be done here. Your voice is so important in this issue; we need stories like yours to be heard publicly. Even just searching this website yields really disappointing attitudes and a scary la...

5. Feminism, Nursing, and Gender

   fakenurse replied to fakenurse's topic in Professionalism

   I'm sorry, I don't know what an "actual female" or a ""female"" is.

6. Feminism, Nursing, and Gender

   fakenurse replied to fakenurse's topic in Professionalism

   Altra: I was sarcastically paraphrasing the commenter who suggested this idea.

7. Feminism, Nursing, and Gender

   fakenurse replied to fakenurse's topic in Professionalism

   Also, I have no idea what a "100% female" is.

8. Feminism, Nursing, and Gender

   fakenurse replied to fakenurse's topic in Professionalism

   I think you missed the point here.

9. Feminism, Nursing, and Gender

   fakenurse replied to fakenurse's topic in Professionalism

   Sorry, what I meant to say is that our culture assigns these values to women, and therefore indirectly to nurses. I'd love to hear your experiences- whether you're cisgender female or male or part of the LGBTQ community- with gender norms and nursing...

10. Feminism, Nursing, and Gender

    fakenurse replied to fakenurse's topic in Professionalism

    I'm sure most of us would agree that these words are not accurate descriptors of our job. The issue is that laypeople often ascribe these characteristics to nurses, and it's problematic for women in general and for our profession.

11. Feminism, Nursing, and Gender

    fakenurse posted a topic in Professionalism

    Early last week we discussed the mistrust of intelligence and education in nursing. One or two nurses suggested that perhaps the frustration stemmed from some sort of "shame" of being in a caring profession where our emotional intelligence is regular...

12. Off the wall question about NPs

    fakenurse replied to HornsRN's topic in Advanced

    Excellent question. Allnurses is consistently clogged with "I passed NCLEX, thanks to the lord almighty Jesus Christ our savior! #blessed" posts. I'd love a more professional, thoughtful forum where we could talk about research, news, and current iss...

13. Anti-Intellectualism in Nursing

    fakenurse replied to fakenurse's topic in Professionalism

    Hi Brandon- as a man, you're not privy to the struggle of women in stereotypically "female" professions to prove their value and get beyond words like "caring" and nurturing." If you don't "see" any misogyny in nursing, it's because you're not experi...

14. Anti-Intellectualism in Nursing

    fakenurse replied to fakenurse's topic in Professionalism

    A lot of people are bringing up the "nurses as most trusted professionals" lists. Of course topping these lists is a good thing, and something we should be proud of, but I've always thought that there is a serious misogynistic undercurrent to our pla...

15. Anti-Intellectualism in Nursing

    fakenurse replied to fakenurse's topic in Professionalism

    Those of you who have brought up the historical context of nursing-- I think that's an important piece to consider. I'm wondering if my frustration may have something to do with generational differences. There has been a lot of work done on studying ...