Male nurses- I need your help

[TaylsRN]

So I am thinking about starting a Nurse monthly subscription box specifically for male nurses. The items would be popular nursing items made for men along with daily items like gourmet coffees or local items for men. Two questions 1. Is this something you would buy and at What price? 2. What type of items would you like to see?

This may be too small of a niche but I want to get some insight into if this is a good choice or not:geek:

[OrganizedChaos, LVN]

Why just for men? Not that there aren't male nurses out there but if you really want to start this business it would probably be in your best interest to include everyone. Especially since female nurses make up a higher percentage.

[nurse2033, MSN, RN]

I don't think men would be a very good nursing market. I bought scrubs once, and they haven't fallen apart yet. I recently spent money on ammo, snowshoes, some fencing material, 2 tons of bricks, and a tamper. But I wouldn't look to a nursing supply for those things in the future. Best of luck.

[Z0LIN]

As a male nurse, I wouldn't go for it. Although I like nurse related items this wouldn't be something I would spend money on. This is something that I feel a lot of new graduates / students would be into and targeting just males I think would be challenging. Besides, there is already a nurse subscription service (NURSELOOT)

[Atl-Murse]

Male generally don't buy random items that often. Many man wear underwear for many many years until they fall apart. Thank goodness for our wives, many would only buy some stuff once in a life time. Now to your question, most men are cheap, mark your prices lower that the competition and we may be persuaded to but that scrub every 5 years.

[jfk899]

I know it's an old post, but I'd like to hear more about your motivations...

I'll tell you why I am interested. Nursing tends to prefer female thoughts, ideas, views, perceptions, etc. Even on a political level, it should come to no surprise that nursing is dominated by left wing ideology. I think this is kind of sad because silencing a whole side of the political spectrum hurts a lot of people in nursing that could actually contribute to the field in various ways.

If you measure political views, you'd probably find that when we look at population averages (please I do not want to hear of your five male friends who do not conform to this because I am talking about averages in the general population, not nursing) you will find that men are more likely than women to hold libertarian or conservative positions.

Why does this matter? Well, if you combine the fact that women on average have different political leanings... and that men are underrepresented in nursing, then, I imagine it would be nice to read some nursing related information that appealed more to your political leanings if you had views that didn't conform to the majority. There is already a conservative allnurses forum subsection.

I think looking at what men give up by going into nursing, i.e., masculinity, politics, etc... might work better than coffee.

Like quite honestly, I could buy coffee from the store. I'd rather read about the guy combining nursing with olympic weight lifting or who wants to go work in the bush on the oil rigs to help make the lives better for guys doing 90 hour work weeks or maybe how we can help people like my stepdad not fall 10 feet doing a cash job because it was more lucrative.... Yeah, he was stupid to do that, but primary health care, education, creating community empowerment to make life better for people is part of our gig right? If you could do something that made men feel less expendable throughout society and more relevant in nursing, I would be your biggest fan. Cuz although left wing types like to suggest that we all need to change as men and become more, I don't know, cultured and what not, these types of men still very much do exist. People can change what is important to them, but its very hard to change drives and individual nature. Some men will just continue to be pricks. We know.

Nursing never talks about stuff like this. But honestly, I'd really love it way more if it did.

And also, signalling language is huge. But honestly, nursing was a tough sell for me, cuz all I saw in the field was femininity. I still struggle with it at times, but I feel way more at peace with it now than I ever did before. But still, I wish some of the more concrete opportunities beyond beside nursing appealed to me more. Some of it is a tough sell and I get why so many men leave or never join in the first place.