HOWS L.I.F.E as a MALE Nurse???

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How are you treated???

Hows the pay? ????

Specializes in Geriatrics.
So you are not even in the nursing profession at all?

You should trust your boyfriend more. Insecurity is not attractive for guys! You what you are and who you have as a partner

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Specializes in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
Hmm well my boyfriend is about to become a nurse and I'm not thrilled with all the threads exclaiming how guys get to work with hot nurses and all the flirting and sleeping around that happens. I hope this is not the case, but it reinforces the stereotype of slutty easy nurses which is very unsettling. I'd rather be thrilled for him going to help people in the medical community, not being fawned over and women throwing themseles at him. Nursing school has been enough like this for him. How many times must a man tell women he has a girlfriend? Apparently this is the medical culture we can't get away from.[/quote']

I don't get the slutty nurse stereotype. Nurses are fetishized for sure but when it comes to boots-on-the-ground working the floor, you got too much to do to care about flirting and what not. Also, there is nothing that can drop a libido faster than a long, busy shift being around critically ill people. Your boyfriend should be way too busy to be bothered with anything other than staying on task. His nurse manager will see to that.

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LOL what a thread! Everything from Darkbloom's post and on is HILARIOUS! :-)

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Funnily enough, the female RNs I work with actually prefer male nurses as collegues. I've heard them say males can "hold it together better" and "spaz out less". Males are loved in the field (in my experience).

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Specializes in Outpatient Psychiatry.

Is L.I.F.E. an acronym?

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Specializes in Telemetry/PCU.

I work on a stepdown tele unit and will say that I am treated quite well as one of 2 nurses on the floor and the only male nurse on night shift. I am youngish, 24, and by most of the nurses seen as the "little brother" being that most are older than me and we all like to have a good time and I usually like to make people laugh. I wouldn't agree that nurses are "slutty" but I will say that conversations can become somewhat crazy depending on who your working wtih and everyone just has a good laugh as if we are talking about what color to paint a room or something :p

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Specializes in Med Surg.

I am treated extremely well.

My first year of nursing I made about 70 grand. If "Fifty thou a year will buy a lot of beer" then the future's so bright, I oughta wear shades.

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