Do you agree that Nurses are on the Worst Driver List?

Ruby Vee, BSN · Feb 20, 2010

i can't believe no one has connected the dots on this one....
from minoritynurse.com (i cannot vouch for accuracy of statistics, but the ballpark numbers sound about right), there are @ 2.9 million licensed registered nurses in the u.s., of which @ 168 thousand are men (@6%). the nursing profession is bound to be on that worst driver list with a predominantly female base , there aren't enough of us guys to counteract all you bad driving women! i'm surprised we're not #1! well now we have a goal as a profession .
never mind my personal 10 speeding tickets, 1 accident, 1 misdemeanor traffic court appearance and subsequent driver's 'safety' course assignment over a 10 year period. i'm sure i had nothing to do with our inclusion on that list.....

because i am not a humorless female who cannot read between the lines and recognize sarcasm when she sees it, i'm not going to jump down your throat. but i'll bet someone will!

and for the record, when our insurance rates went up, it was because of dh's speeding tickets, accidents and the fact that he forgot to renew his driver's license and was driving around without one!

NavyVet · Feb 20, 2010

Ya, my humor tends to run to sarcasm, but its all in good fun. For the record, my wife is an RN as well and over the same 10 year period, she had 1 ticket for not buckling her seatbelt (while driving through a parking lot!) and zero accidents.

I forgot to mention that I also hit a guardrail pulling a U-turn with my lights off to avoid a police roadblock/DUI checkpoint (licensed was suspended for unpaid speeding tickets at the time). This happened on our first date. I have never been able to win a "Girls are crappy drivers" argument in my house, for some reason she likes to throw my 'youthful indiscretions' in my face . I think its terribly rude of her to use facts to defeat my attempts at stereotyping and slandering her gender!

wooh, BSN, RN · Feb 20, 2010

Nurses being on a "worst driver" list has nothing to do with being reckless, careless, speed demons. It's all about the fact that there are so many of us working 12, which actually means 14 hour shifts. Half of us are driving home after a night shift. It doesn't matter how careful you are, careful exhausted drivers are more dangerous than careful drivers. Add in a few of us that are reckless, careless speed demons (NavyVet for one :)) and add exhausted on top of that, it's a wonder that we make it home at all!