Who HATES the term MURSE?

Nurses Men

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Just checking in with all the hombres...

Most guys I know are ambivilent to the term, but is there anyone else who just DETESTS being called a murse?

B in VA

The only place I've ever heard the term is here on this message board.

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My GF just got me a Murse t-shirt (with a man holding a specimen cup saying"I'm gonna need a sample of that",which i thought was funny as heck with many lol's.

So thats how I feel about it, its a word.

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Specializes in ER, Med/Surg.

I like, "Nurse with a member". That is hilarious.

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Specializes in LTC.

Hey everybody, virgin poster in the house.

Lets face it mursing is the future, so get on board!

I don't care if its a man bag or an insult.

I recall one episode of Greys, not that I watch it, but

one of the male :banghead:medical officers (hehe) accused the skinny lead mo

of being a ''nurse'' and she took total offence.

The root meaning of nursing is something like -to suckle. Well

thats not really what we, especially the menfolk, are about these days.

Technical jargon would truly nurse/suck. So why not embrace the humour

and self depricating nonmenclature. My only other suggestion is

Toilet Brush. Hello Mr Smith, I will be your nurse today but you can just call me TB.:saint:

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Thats funny as hell. What personn would actually take that to heart. If a male nurse is a murse, than a female nurse is a furse or a herse. before some brain child calls nursing a female role, the first recorded nurses were men. The reason that women have exploded into the work force is directly from men have historically killed themselves off during times of war. If all of your men folk are off fighting and dying, stands to reason that women should and have filled those position normally held by men.

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I suppose I'm a bit of a hypocrite when it comes to the term. I refer to myself as a "murse" on occasion, but mostly only around other "murses" or people who remember the episode of Scrubs when J.D. used the term to describe Elliot's boyfriend.

Mike in Michigan

Don't forget that at the end of the episode of Scrubs where everyone was using "murse", Dr. Reid was sitting in the lunchroom and surrounded by docs razzing her for dating a murse. Remember the last line of the episode was her offhandedly shutting them all up by saying, "Please. You all WISH you could bag a nurse."

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Just checking in with all the hombres...

Most guys I know are ambivilent to the term, but is there anyone else who just DETESTS being called a murse?

B in VA

Well, to me that's a new one. I've never heard of anyone anywhere ever being called a "murse". All I can say is that I sure hope that it *doesn't* catch on....

Myself, I prefer the credential designations - "RN", "LPN", "CNA", "NP", etc.

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I truly dislike the term "murse".

:down:

We are nurses. Registered Nurses.

steph

I guess many guys' reaction is a sort of easygoing "so what" but I've gone through quite a bit to get to where I am in my nursing education, and have a bit to go yet. I will eventually be an RN. In a professional setting, it does matter what you are called, or what you allow yourself to be called IMO. If you want people to take you seriously that is. I'm 56 and getting into this as a second career, so like another poster mentioned, I too am way beyond "cute". Just my :twocents:

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatric, Behavioral Health.

Myself, I prefer the credential designations - "RN", "LPN", "CNA", "NP", etc.

More professional....I agree.

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When my friends have a few drinks they call me a murse which doesn't bother me its kinda funny. What did bother me was once I was a party and there was a guy there calling me gaylord... because of ben stiller and meet the faukkers that bothered me.

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Specializes in Psychiatry (PMHNP), Family (FNP).

I too hope it doesn't catch on. Nursing is consistently ranked one of the most trusted professions. I'd not like to see that watered down with some silly new name that might confuse me with a handbag! Not having spent as much time getting my education as I have. Our gains as both males and females in the profession have been hard won!

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It depends. My sister uses it to tease me, so in that case I don't like it. Not only am I studying to a murse, but I go to mursing school as well, according to her.

You don't hear male lawyers and female lawyers referred to by their gender and their job. I guess one could get irritated by what the term implies, that men in nursing is different or something like that. At the end of the day, its just something to laugh off and get thicker skin about.

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