Have you met your husband at nursing? Is nursing a good career to meet men?

NurseCodeWhite, RPN · Dec 23, 2015

I know of another nurse who met her husband at the hospital. He worked for EMS and she worked in the Emerg. ! Super cute :)

Editorial Team / Moderator · Dec 24, 2015

I met my husband at work in the ER â€” we knew each other for almost two years before we started dating, partially because he was enlisted (Army medic) and I was an officer so we waited until he was out of the Army. :) He starts medical school in the fall, I am so proud of him! It's nice to be married to a medical person who shares my ER sense of humor. Our birthdays are one day apart and we're both military brats. Two peas in a pod.

MPKH, BSN, RN · Dec 24, 2015

I know of a nurse who married another nurse (they both work in my hospital...different units).

But I wouldn't think nursing would be a good place to meet guys. To start, there are far more girls than guys...and from my experience, the guys are either spoken for, or they're not interested in girls.

nuangel1, BSN, RN · Dec 25, 2015

Yes I met my husband 13 years ago when we both worked in ed .we are both nurses.but we did not date till after I had left to work in another ed.

Kristiernbsn · Dec 26, 2015

Your reply made me curious-- male nurses make up about 9% of the profession overall -- 40% of the highest paid nurses (nurse anesthetists) are men. In my LPN class last year, there was one man, and 18 women. In my current BSN class, there are 10 men, 30 women. Reasons like this are why men will always make more money than women.

armyicurn · Dec 26, 2015

My husband and I met while we were both working at the same hospital. He's not a nurse.
We were both on the hospital bowling league, and he had a few friends on my team. He became intrigued by the one who had the lowest average in the league.
Yep, my husband and I met because I couldn't bowl for crap lol.

I want to work at this hospital! You have a bowling league!!! That rocks.

Libby1987 · Dec 26, 2015

I wouldn't go into any field to meet a spouse but I would have thought it not crazy to think that working for a huge hospital based system could lead to many social relationships including possibly one leading to a long term relationship. If I were single and worked for say UCSF, I'd think that might be my main social network.

NurseSpeedy, ADN, LPN, RN · Dec 26, 2015

I can't count with all fingers how many times a patient asked me - "How old are you? You look so young!".
Yes ... I was full fledged RN at age 21.
Most of my coworkers are 30 - 40 years old and above and female... so not like I'm gonna date any of them. But they make great drinking buddies!

I was 20 but a female with mostly other female co-workers that were old enough to be my mom. They had available sons who were close to my age and when they found out that I wasn't currently dating anyone at the time....yeah, a little awkward.....

AlphaM · Dec 26, 2015

How about AN? Anyone met a spouse here on this site?

armyicurn · Dec 26, 2015

How about AN? Anyone met a spouse here on this site?

I think you are asking about FACEBOOK :)

This is a professional site.

AlphaM · Dec 26, 2015

I think you are asking about FACEBOOK :)
This is a professional site.

What's Facebook ?

NurseGirl525, ASN, RN · Dec 26, 2015

I agree with match.com. POF has some real creepers. I was once engaged to someone I worked with. When I found out he was cheating with another coworker, it was a very messy breakup. Like having to go through the whole transfer process and hearing all of the gossip. Everybody but me knew he was cheating and I was personally humiliated. I have never gotten involved with a coworker again.

I met my soulmate on match almost a year ago. I went on many first dates and it took awhile but I finally met him. To me, the breakups are much easier when you don't work with them, not because of him necessarily, it's the rest of the workforce gossiping about it.