MALE NURSES

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Why do you think male nurses a few in the nursing profession and even in the nursing schools?

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I dont know but male nurses are HOT.

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Specializes in CNA.
I dont know but male nurses are HOT.

We sure is!

Gender has not been an issue in any place I have worked or done clinical at. There were plenty of male nurses at my old LTC and there have been male RNs during every clinical rotation I've done. I just did a 4-day preceptorship in an ICU and although my preceptors were female, I either took or gave report to a male nurse each day.

There is only one male nurse at the home health agency I currently work at but that may very well change after I pass the boards.

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bc its a predominately female occupation just like construction is a male dominanted occupation. its takes guts and some people care to much about what other people think. i think who cares it shouldnt matter. do what u want to do. i dont think male nurses are hot and if i was a man i dont think female construction workers are hot but thats my opinion doesnt mean someone shouldnt be one of those things

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Why do you think male nurses a few in the nursing profession and even in the nursing schools?

It was a traditionally "female" profession for many years. It seems like more and more men are going in to nursing now though. My class in nursing school had a lot of guys, not quite half but definitely a sizable majority.

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I dont know but male nurses are HOT.

Look no further than here. ;)

Been a cop too (still am actually). Still got the uniform if that does something for you too lol. ;)

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Well, honestly, I think since it's a female-dominated field men don't go into it. Also, I don't think most men find appeal in tending to many of the matters that nurses tend to. Heck, I can't even stand the idea of a lot of it, but I'm in the program.

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I dont know but male nurses are HOT.

So uh...how YOU doin?!?:coollook:

jussst kidding.

This isn't a homework assignment I hope.

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guys rule.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

I really enjoy talking with one guy in my program. He's very smart and has a perspective on issues that I don't have. I'm not sure if it's gender or just his personality. As for the other guys, I don't know them as well. I see no problem with the males in nursing.

What I don't like, however, is the trend discussed here on AN about financial incentives given to males to get them into the profession. There have also been statements about males being promoted more quickly in nursing. I don't know if that means the males were the best candidates or they were perceived as being better leaders due to gender without performance evidence to back it up.

There have also been many statements by female nurses that they would rather work with men. I'm sure that if these females were "let go" to be replaced by a man because the female boss wanted to work with men, some people would be singing a different tune. Historically, though, minorities have always had in-fighting, so I shouldn't be surprised that some females say they enjoy working with males more than females.

I have worked with both in a corporate setting, and I've found that individuals (regardless of gender) have strengths and weaknesses. In fact, my biggest issue with co-workers has been the artsy-fartsy types who think they are the smartest people in the room. They are insufferable.

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Specializes in Urgent Care NP, Emergency Nursing, Camp Nursing.

Nursing has persisted as a female-dominated profession partially due to the fact that Florence Nightingale was a first-wave feminist and set up the modern incarnation of nursing as a field of skilled work appropriate for women.

The cultural attitude that nursing is a "woman's field" has persisted while second-wave feminism broadly broke down the cultural barriers that kept women out of male-dominated fields (e.g. medicine); there was no similar push to allow men into female-dominated fields. In fact, through out the middle of the 20th century there were various examples of the systematic exclusion of men from nursing education and nursing in general. While many of the most egregious means have since been discarded, one can go peruse the Male Nursing Student Forum to read about some of the more subtle means of pointing out to men in nursing school that they are "the other".

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

Cause girls have coodies and are mean so we try to stay away

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