Wierd Question.

maeyken · Apr 2, 2003

I'm from Ontario. In my nursing class, there's 97 students. Of the 7 males, one is Chinese. There's about 8 female asian students. On the ward where I did clinical placement, there was one asian female nurse, but no asian males. (there was only one male nurse who worked there, and he's caucasian)

Good for you to go for what you want to do! Good luck with your parents! Maybe when they see how much you enjoy it they will change their minds?

Hidi74 · Apr 2, 2003

I was at the hospital the other day to visit a friend and I saw 3 different nurses that were male asians. I am pretty sure one of them was Vietnamese. They were real nice and one was my friends nurse and he was great. My friend Iwas visiting is a paramedic and he is the kind that questions every thing the nursees are doing. This guy was very kind , gentle and good at keeping my annoying friend at bay! lol. My sis in law is vietnamese and is planning on going to school to be a nurse. She is having the same problems w/ her parents as they are VERY traditional. She already has one degree and her parents think that that is what she should do.

I say do what you want to do and your parents will learn to deal with it!!

MJ-12 · Apr 2, 2003

Originally posted by liberalrn
Why are they so against it? Is it considered a female task or is it a different issue? I'm curious. I work in the chicago metro area and we have lots of Filipinos, male and female. Lots of male nurses--white, African, African-American, Filipino. I's say roughly that we have 2 male nurses for every 5 females. I enjoy working with make nurses, maybe even more than female...they seem to have a take on life that is positive and humorous and healthy. go for it!

Yea my parents are against it, mostly my mom.

She says that nursing is for women. All she thinks that nurses do is clean crap, puke, and gather up piss from each patient and to get yelled at by doctors.

Its pretty tough here but i just sent in my application to a nursing school around where i live and hopefully i get in

Allison S. · Apr 3, 2003

I'm from Massachusetts. Off the top of my head, I know Filipinos, Japanese and Vietnamese nurses. I can't think how many, and all of them are female. (I work in peds, which I think is female heavy.) I have some friends who are male nurses, and I think they are great, strong men. I wish there were more men on our unit.

I knew a Chinese male student nurse years ago. Don't know how his career went, but I remember that he was a bright, nice, well-spoken guy. I also know two Chinese male Respiratory Therapists who are knowledgeable, and also very compassionate.

I was raised by a very progressive family who thought that I could grow up to be president. I think that they were surprised that their intellif\gent, assertive, accomplished daughter decided at thirty to do "women's work" and go into nursing, but now they are quite fascinated by my career. I think that they are more proud of me now than they were when I was a bio researcher or when I was a tech writer.

I certainly encourage you to pursue the work that you want to do. I suspect that if your folks learned more about what a nurse does in a day, and how hard nurses work, as well as how influential nurses can be, that they might change their minds.

I also think that, no matter how important family is, a person needs to accomplish work that he or she can be proud of. Just my humble opinion. Good luck to you.

Allison S. · Apr 3, 2003

Just saw your question about why so many Filiino nurses. There have been a lot of programs to "solve" the nursing shortage by recruiting nurses from other countries. This is currently happening a lot with the Filipines. Our hospital has a lot of great Filipino nurses, but I wonder what happens to the availability of nurses in the countries we lure them away from. (But I'm getting off topic.)

researchrabbit · Apr 3, 2003

I work in a research facility (part of the university). We only have four nurses, all female; one is Asian (Vietnamese). I'm in OKC.

liberalrn · Apr 3, 2003

She says that nursing is for women. All she thinks that nurses do is clean crap, puke, and gather up piss from each patient and to get yelled at by doctors.

What did she do? Read the prospectus? lol. Well, she has some valid concerns, but she also doesn't have the whole picture........

RNKerry · Apr 4, 2003

I work with lots of asian nurses most of whom are female but there are also several males. They are all mostly Phillipino or Singaporean.

nurseBe · Apr 5, 2003

On my floor there is one male filipino nurse. As far as females, we have Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese and Filipino nurses. I don't know of any Japanese. I am caucasian and a minority. I think the diversity is great and helps to serve our pt population. I work in San Jose, CA.

MJ-12 · Apr 10, 2003

Bump up for all the new people that are here.

Maybe they can also help answer my question :)

ceecel.dee, MSN, RN · Apr 10, 2003

gone fishing..... :rolleyes:

udontwannabme · Apr 10, 2003

We had one male nurse at our hospital. He was the ICU manager. I live in a small town and we have a very small facility, so he recently left for a better job. Every male nurse that I have encountered, no matter the race, was very good. If that's what you want to do, go for IT!!