A Nurse CAN be both sexy & smart

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I am skipping a bunch of posts so I'm not sure if someone said this already: I think the biggest problem may be nurses' portrayal by the media. Nurses are portrayed as sex objects or as physicians' handmaidens on TV and movies and no one understands what we actually do. People do not know that nurses are educated professionals, work independently from physicians, are both men AND women, and are not sex objects. Once people understand health care and what nurses do I think nurses will be treated better and respected more.

It does not have to be an either or situation.Dowdy does not always equate to smart.

A nurse can be both smart/educated professional and sexy as heck!:yeah:

Why does one taking care of oneself lead to the dumbo comment? You can't hide sex appeal.So yup,nurses can have it both ways.

Three cheers for sexy smart nurses:up:

Specializes in Psychiatry.

It shouldn't matter how sexy or UNsexy we look.. It's all about how well we care for our patients. Period.

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Can I be sexy too?

;)

Well, yeah! I've met a few sexy male nurses. To me, "sexy" is a combination of physically attractive and having a great personality.

Yes some people ooze sexy but they should never ooze sex object!

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confidence is sexy.

leslie

Hollahh!:smokin:

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Specializes in LTC, medsurg.

I think a classy, confident woman can be considered sexy, that is, if she doesn't flaunt it and isn't conceited! It's all about the way you carry yourself! I think Cindy Crawford is classy sexy. Whereas, I think Heidi klum is more of the flaunty 'I know I'm sexy' type of person which to me is a total turn off. modesty is a much better way of showing your sex appeal if you think your are sexy.

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Specializes in pulm/cardiology pcu, surgical onc.
Oh please ! There is nothing wrong with being sexy and smart. Some of the sexiest nurses are I know are smart and competent.

Besides I rather the media portray us as sexy than Fat and Ugly.

It's ironic though that most are fat and ugly (but smart).

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Specializes in pulm/cardiology pcu, surgical onc.
It shouldn't matter how sexy or UNsexy we look.. It's all about how well we care for our patients. Period.

Yes, I agree most patients do not care how sexy their nurse is. If they do they're well enough to go home.

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Smart IS sexy.

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Originally Posted by Katie5 viewpost.gif

It does not have to be an either or situation.Dowdy does not always equate to smart.

A nurse can be both smart/educated professional and sexy as heck!
:yeah:

Why does one taking care of oneself lead to the dumbo comment? You can't hide sex appeal.So yup,nurses can have it both ways.

Three cheers for sexy smart nurses:up:

A sex OBJECT is not the same thing as being sexy.

Sigh. Reading is fundamental.

Do tell! Where in the above quote, did you infer your conclusion?

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It shouldn't matter how sexy or UNsexy we look.. It's all about how well we care for our patients. Period.

Yes Mam:)

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In my younger and single days it was a rare evening (or sometimes morning) that I was without 'company'. Most of my companions said it was my intelligence, and good humor, as well as my good looks that drew them to me.

Did I flirt at work? When there was time!!! I sure miss those days.....(sigh)!

Cheer up, you are good cougar age (meeeoooowww)!

Just kidding. Couldn't help myself. Please don't be offended.

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No, sexy does not belong in the workplace, I agree Heidi.

Just the other day, I was scrubbed in and the circulating nurse (relatively new, had moved from place to place although she is not a travel nurse...she said that it was "just time to move on" when some of the staff asked why she moved around so much) was having trouble with the bovie pad sticking. We had already prepped and draped, and the bovie kept alarming. Finally the surgeon asked her to just replace the pad. She crawls up under the drapes and places a new pad on the patient. When she got up, she said breathlessly, "Dr. X, I know you just wanted to see me on my knees." Oh. Em. Gee. The surgeon was silent, and gave me this "What the heck?" look. I just shook my head, and the resident rolled his eyes.

I see this nurse constantly touching, flirting and acting "familiar" with attending surgeons and residents. I am embarrassed FOR her. I believe that this nurse is the epitome of Trashy Barbie, and I hope that she decides that it is "time to move on" shortly!

While it is one thing to comment on something that could be construed as "inappropriate" (we all giggle in the corner laughing when our surgeons tell us that he needs a very long screw for his calcaneal fx case), it is entirely another thing to make DIRECTLY inappropriate comments such as this nurse made.

My husband tells me that my sexiest moments are when I am concentrating really hard on something and focusing on a task. I kinda doubt it, but if it floats his boat, then give me another task, hubby! :)

Umm, that it not sexy, just trashy.

Most of the time when someone told me I was sexy it was when I wasn't trying. One time it was when I was at Walmart shopping with cut off jeans and rollers in my hair. For some reason I got A LOT of attention that day.:D When I moved from the midwest to the south about 23 years ago many people thought I had a sexy voice. All this time later some people still do.

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LMAO - I resemble that remark.

I don't have a whole lot of problem with the media protraying us as sexy, because the closest they can get to fat is Cameron Mannheim, and the closest they can get to ugy is America Ferrero. Hardly fat or ugly. I just don't appreciate them protraying us as having enough time to go in the nearest storage room to have sex with some doctor - who happens to look like George Clooney :)

If I weren't married I think I would make time:coollook:

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