I am a nursing student, currently studying to be an RN. I am really enjoying the experience, however I have an issue that is concerning me.
When chatting up women and the conversation comes up about what I do, and I reply studying nursing, their eyes widen and the mood seems to change. This is not related to women in the field but those outside. As soon as I utter the word nurse, I seem to go from a confident manly guy to a nice guy to them. I know women want confident manly sort of men, but women also say they like a man to be sensitive and caring. Can’t a male nurse be sensitive and manly? Do these women see nurses as somewhat effeminate, at worst gay?
If a woman is able to climb the corporate ladder and make big money in business and still have sex appeal, does a man need to limit himself to traditional masculine roles to prove his maleness and be attractive to women or can he do a traditionally feminine job of helping and caring for people.
I understood that when women refer to equality, it is for both men and women. They it’s a great idea for men to be nurses, but individually, their actions seem to speak louder than their words.
I would be very interested in your opinions on this both guys and girls
I'm very hesistant to tell females that I meet that I'm a nurse, because it's important to see if they like you for who you are, opposed to your career profession and possible $
I actually somewhat laughed when I read the title of this thread.
Mainly because when I started doing my senior practicum for my BN program there was a new nurse that just started on the same unit about a month earlier. Well of course just finishing up my degree I wasn't really in the mood to go out with anyone or chat anyone up. So goes the fall (after i failed my 1st CRNE) and then comes the Xmas party for the ward (ended up with a FT position on the same ward as her). At the time I wasn't really in the mood for anything as I failed my test and what not but it was obvious that she was flirting and what not. So I go along with it but dont really move or anything cause I was down in the dumps.
March comes, right my next CRNE and then come back from the course and say heck with it (in the mean time she continues to flirt and what not). Pass or fail we will see how it goes. This is the funny part. We get a wicked ice/snow storm the day after I got my results (passed) and a co-worker and myself who went to school together plan a night out with co-workers from work. Well as you guessed only 5 of us went (minus the one flirting--and she really wanted to come). So when i found out I was either going to drive back into town or snowmobile back into town to pick her up. Well that didn't happen.
The next week we went out for drinks after work and well since then we have been going out and the whole part about manly or not manly, she said guys in nursing are manlier then ones out because we encompass another side of what men are.
We can all blame Florence Nightingale for the femininistic view on nursing... Started out as a mostly male profession, waaaaay back in the day. Anybody remember the Templars?
Personally, I never had a problem with this issue. In fact, in my first year of school (general ed, non-nursing as I went to BSN program), it actaully seemed a turn-on to girls when they found out I was in nursing school....
And don't forget, little old ladies loooove sponge baths from male nurses. You just might have made your date's grandma's whole hospital stay better last time you took care of her... =P
I am researching becoming a nurse and i found an article that said when a fireman or a policeman retires they often become a nurse. so next time they start laughing or whatever just say is a fireman or policeman unmasculin because alot of them are now nurses. hope that mightve helped :)
When I went out with some coworkers to a bar in scrubs I got some looks from women. I mean good looks, like actually chated up with one of them and seemed interested in the scrub get-up. I say it helps lol
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