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hi everyone i just signed up and here to start learing. Im still young going to be a senior in high school. ive been deciding if i want to put my life into focus with a career i would love and learn from from the work enviroment. becoming a male nurse sounds silly to many i know, but not to me. yes the salary is a good thing to think about, but its what you work for to recive the best benifits. reading about the good oppertunitys in nursing sound fantastic. working with people, meeting new people, taking care of others is somthing to always be happy about. i also have somthing that makes me feel deep inside that is a big motivation, which is my mother. she passed 3 years ago. her life was devoted on her career in nursing, she was outstanding shes was everything. i feel that becoming a nurse would just make me think about the good all the love what it really means to become the best of your own abilitys. but for now i may know nothing about this career but i do have my whole life of oppertunitys. i guess thats just my view if anyone can relate please feel open

Specializes in ICU, ER (ED), CCU, PCU, CVICU, CCL.

I have a good friend that for years didn't know that I was a nurse.... his nick name for me is Mr. Focker! Now his daughter (who is going into 9th grade and has had congenital heart defects) wants to be a nurse. He ask me to talk to her when the time comes.

Lots of "stereotypes". Yes I have been ask over many years if I was gay. I fact in Spanish the is no "masculine" word for Nurse... it is onlty in the femine and no such thing exist... as a culture "La Nursa" only never "El Nurso" it's a non go in the language. It is only acceptable as El Doctor" So the sterotype is even deeper than esoteric.

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Specializes in Med/Surg,.

In Nursing School my class was around 40, with 10 classmates being male. That's a pretty good ratio. I've done med/surg and at one time we had 4 males on the floor as nurses (not including aids). I think in general a lot of guys gravitate towards ICU, ER, and Surgery.

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Specializes in ER.

My rather large nursing graduation class in 1973 only had 2 males, and they had both been medics in the military and had plans to be CRNA's.

I am thrilled to see more men getting into nursing. It makes working conditions and salary better for us all. I work in ER and it is always great to have the men around. Unruly patients, drunks in general and uppity doctors respond better when there are men around. Not sexist, just a fact of life.

I have worked shifts where I was the only female, having male clerks, techs and RN's, so no problem here...come on guys, get on board! The more the merrier!! :yeah:

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im on board!!! hahaha

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raison, i just love (love, love!) the title of your thread.

it speaks volumes about you.

and men in nursing?

we need so many more.

welcome, sweetie.

would love to see you stick around.

leslie

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why thank you very much. i love hearing kind words. but i shall be around the site getting some info about career opinons.

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