The Guys Club: Guy Students Come on In!

agent · Oct 14, 2003

Yeah I was hired as a computer tech (professional) at a large software company. I swear management treats us like kids way too much.. its very frustrating.

I will try to command some degree of respect this time around

MQ Edna · Oct 16, 2003

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I'm a male ADN student. I'll be starting in 2 weeks at San Jacinto College in Houston.

Being the rare guy isn't that big of a deal. When I got my Vet Tech degree (vet equivalent of an ADN) I was the only male in a graduating class of 28. From what I saw in orientation, it looks like men will be mopre common this time around.

-----I'm currently an LVN student @ Galveston College just south of clear lake, TX...started taking pre-reqs for the ADN program at San Jacinto College but switched down to Galveston College. I graduate in May and have already started IV piggy back drugs (we're already through injections/PO meds, etc)...noticed MATTHEWCAIN is from houston 2--good to see some peeps from the area!! It's been pretty tough so far, but I plan to transition to get my ADN within 2 years and will eventually get my MSN and be a CRNA or NP--:-) feel free to PM me if ya'll need any help!

FunGi · Oct 16, 2003

Just checkin in...another male student here...one more semester after this, hopefully I'll have my Associate's Degree. Good Luck to all Students...men or ladies etc.

mrdoc2005 · Oct 16, 2003

There are 5 guys in my class and we call ourselves the test group.

MtnMan · Oct 24, 2003

just keeping the thread alive

manna, BSN, RN · Oct 24, 2003

There is only one guy in my whole nutrition class (mostly pre-nursing/dietetics students).. poor thing. To top that off, his name is Mango!

agent · Nov 7, 2003

Originally posted by manna
There is only one guy in my whole nutrition class (mostly pre-nursing/dietetics students).. poor thing. To top that off, his name is Mango!

No way.. are you serious!!!:chuckle

manna, BSN, RN · Nov 7, 2003

Originally posted by agent
No way.. are you serious!!!:chuckle

As a heart attack. Isn't that funny? :)

BNS_Rob · Nov 8, 2003

I'm in my second year of my 4 year BN degree at the University of Manitoba

There are 34 women and 4 guys in my class....

I"ve been a paramedic for 15 yrs, it feels different to go from a

male dominated job to a female dominated career.

jemride · Nov 8, 2003

Here's my story:

I am a 29 year male who has worked as a surgical tech for the past 8 years on a busy labor and delivery unit. Needless to say, I am outnumbered 10:1 ration on the male-to-female aspect. I originally wanted to be a PA but after a few years of working as a surgical tech full time, partying and trying to do prereqs full time, I quickly burned out. I began to think that the healthcare field wasn't for me so I went and got a B.S. in computer science instead. I thought that a change of scene would do me some good. Besides, the IT field was booming at that time and it looked like I could make a good living that way. By the time I graduated last year, the technology field bottomed out and the jobs I was being offered made me reconsider my options. I came to realize that I was going to miss working in the OR and that no other job out there could be as important, challenging and rewarding as being in the healthcare field (minus the management).

So now I am finishing off my prereqs to try and get into an accelerated BSN program. I just finished sending off my application to last month. I feel reborn with a new agenda and a world of oppurtunities at my disposal. I am now hoping to get into this program. If I do not get in, I might just go and do what I set out to do in the first place......be a PA.

Things will work themselves out. They always do. Good luck to everyone who is waiting to hear a reply from a nursing program and to those of you still trying to figure out what to do with your lives.

menetopali · Nov 9, 2003

Well we graduated 57 (i think) in our class and had 6 guys. 2 Marine Corps vets, 1 Air Force vet, a (self-described) jock, a (again self-described) bookworm, and second carreer divorcee. We formed a group amongst ourselves and thank god for it. In spite of the overt anti-male attitude of some of our instructors and the much subtler anti-male attitude of several other instructors, we made it through and have joined the workforce. Hang in there you guys! From what I've seen, the working world is generally much more accepting of men in nursing than the academic world.

Beware though, the discrimination against us is still there and we must be prepared to deal with it. This includes the "I don't know why the male students even come here [the OB/nursery ward], we don't hire men here" from an OB nurse during my clinical rotation, as well as the constant use of female pronouns like "goodnight ladies" from one the doctors that I work with in the GI department, and the patient who sats they don't want a man in the room while they have a colonoscopy because "I want to keep my dignity" even though the doctor is male.

In spite of this, attitudes are changing and we need to hang in there while they change and help to lead that attitudnal shift by being caring and professional in all that we do as nurses, encouraging other men to become nurses, entering the realm of academic nursing, and trying to change the stereotype that to be a nurse is to be effeminate.

usmc94201 · Nov 10, 2003

I am glad I came accross this thread. I have not incountered the bias that you all discuss. I am working on my last semester of prereqs. I will be appling to the local nursing programs in January. I spent 7 years in the Corps and it has taken some time to shake the emasculating stigma of being called a NURSE by my father (Marine for 20years). But I am excited to start school and start a new carreer. Of course I get all the looks and jokes from my friends. Oh yea and the famous quote........"whats the matter? Dont want to be a doctor focker?" (meet the parents)

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