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When I told my Grandmother I was going to nursing school, she asked me, "So, you're going to be a male nurse?" I had to laugh out loud!!!!

How many of you are mistaken for and/or called "Doctor" by patients? That seems to happen a lot!

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My father in law said "so you're going to be **like** a nurse, but you'll be a man."

I said "Actually dad, I'm **already** a man, and I will be an **actual** nurse, not just like a nurse."

"So, you'll be **basically** a nurse, but a **man.**"

"I am a **man** who is going to be a **nurse**. **Man is my gender.** **Nurse will be my profession.**"

Wow--that was painful

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I live in MN and I have actually NEVER been asked anything like this. I was kind of pleasantly surprised by this. Most people just gush, "Oh that is a GREAT career choice!" and such.

I think my dad may harbor reservations about his son being a "male nurse", but he has not verbalized them yet.

The LTC/Rehab/Transitional care facility I work at has a rather high percentage of male nurses - about 1/3. There are 3 male CNAs (including me) at my facility who are currently in RN programs. None of the female aides at work are in nursing programs.

I was sort of preparing myself for those types of comments and they never came. My stepgrandmother told me I should be a doctor and could not understand why I was studying to be a nurse, but that's about it.

The thing I get all the time that is sort of bothersome is the people who only focus on how much money a nurse can make. After a year working at a busy, understaffed nursing home I can honestly tell them, "If you are in it primarily for the money, find something else to do."

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Never got it here in Michigan. EVeryone has had good things to say. The only thing is one of my nursing instructioners was really hard on me on my Med Surg rotation. Grant it, I wasn't all that yet. It was still my first year. But I do think that my gender had something to do with her not liking me very much. Like I said, I wasn't great yet. But there has been worse, and I wasn't that bad. So sexism like that can go both ways. I don't have proof. But I was the only male, and my classmates who were female suspected sexism before I did.

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lmao at responses

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Man.. To be totally honest, I've had some issues here and there. But for the most part, I always got props (maybe it has something to do with me being Filipino). Hahah

AND hey? Met the wifey during nursing school.

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Originally Posted by jeffboyardee

Man.. To be totally honest, I've had some issues here and there. But for the most part, I always got props (maybe it has something to do with me being Filipino). Hahah

AND hey? Met the wifey during nursing school.

almost every filipino family wants their son/daughter to be a nurse thats a fact

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I"m studying to be a male nurse ,I 'm starting this spring,its something i always wanted to do...just never told anybody,i dont care what they think anymore.I am excited about it,and all ready getting made fun of by the boys..its bad enough they call me pretty boy...which i don't like.But my girlfriend is giving me a hard time about going to nursing...she says that i will be surrounded by female all day.But she has nothing to worry about she so beautiful,i hope that nursing does not mess up our relationship.I am not going to put her before my carreer...she just going have to deal with.But this means more time in the books,than outside playing football,baseball and of course partying to the side a little...i mean i'm 21 need some social time,i know its going to be hard but i am ready...oh yeah because i am that good. wish me luck

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About twenty years ago I told my mother that I wanted to enter nursing school. Mind you this was twenty years ago. She asked those famous words "so you want to be a male nurse"?? I said, "well mom, I certainly can't become a female nurse". We laughed many times over that conversation. Most people actually do show support and interest in my career choice. Some day I will be a N.W.P., which stands for nurse with prostate.

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Actually I wanted to be a female nurse but the surgery was too expensive and insurance won't pay for it.

Can't take credit for this one as I read it somewhere else.