The Guys Club: Guy Students Come on In!

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Hi All!

I'm a crazy father of 2 ex-premed who just recently turned down Northwestern to go into a RN program.

I already have an Associate in Science, but I'll be getting another ADN and then go to a 4 yr school.

When I went to an info session about the RN program ill be trying to get into, out of like 70 ppl only 5 were guys.

So I want to know are there any men out there?

ejlaca, I think you are making a very good career move. This is very satisfying work, something that is not too common. Go to the CRNA thread on this website. You can learn a lot about preparing for anesthesia school there, very informative.

mmj

And yet another comes forth.... I'm 45 and a second career guy too. I inspect buildings for insurance carriers, and have done so for about 17 yrs. I spent the past two years taking all the pre-req's ( at night) at NCC in the Lehigh Valley here in Eastern PA. I was accepted into the nights/weekends ADN program there, and start clinicals in less than a month. The day program and the night program together took 70 out of almost 400 applicants, of which about 5 or 10 are men ( based on the turnout I saw at the orientation last month).

I was a 91B Army Medic for 5 years, and I used to volunteer as an EMT with the local squad when I still had something known as "spare time". Now I read, study, work.... when I get a chance I ride my Softail, or head for the woods with a backpack (thats my "church").

I'm really looking forward to getting started in clinicals.. I hate to wait. Lots of work ahead, but from past experience I know that if I'm busy with something I enjoy, and that I find exciting ,that the time will pass quickly.

Hope to speak with you guys here often, and if any of you are in eastern Pa let me know, we'll get together for a pint of Guinness and shoot the $hite.

Cheers,

Pete

It's quite interesting to hear all the career changes for the most of us. I'm a 30yr old father of 3 and decided to make a career change 2yrs ago. I'm in my second semester of my RN nursing program and so far so good. It is alot more interesting than driving truck! Good luck to you all and when times get tough just hang in there. :cool: :smokin: :roll

As a second semester student I can definitely relate to everything everyone is talking about. Yes, we are a minority in the nursing profession, but my experience has been only positive. All of my fellow students (74-femaie, 6-maie) are great! Everyone is cooperative and helps each other to be successful.

I'm a 2nd career guy, moving from computer programmer to RN. Tired of looking at machines all day, I want to help people!

:roll

Good for you. I'm also in the computer engineering area, tired of it as well.

Specializes in SRNA.

hehe

I'm also a 2nd career programmer type. I think there will be enough programmer-turned-RNs out there to start up our own club!

-S

The ex-developers club ;)

Specializes in Emergency.

Yeah!! Let's do it!!

Has anyone talked to you guys about Nursing Infomatics?

I dont know a lot about it, but if its like what im doing now, im not interested.

btw happy new year!

Specializes in SRNA.

Yes - I've looked into informatics. There seems to be a lot of effort in this area, but for me, I am done with computers. After sitting in front of one for 12 years, I'm ready to work with people! I do think that some of us ex-tech people will probably go into informatics eventually.

-S

Just found this web site and couldn't believe I spent 2.5 hrs to finish reading this one thread. Here's my story:

I thought I was the only one jumping the IT Titanic but seems like there are quite a few of us doing the same. I have been in IT for 17 years and can't do it anymore. I'm so sick and tired of it. I regret that I have put too much effort building my IT career (which doesn't pay off). I earned my BS Comp sci, all my IT networking certs (Microsoft, Novell, Cisco) by self study. Even my prime time was working in Microsoft supporting SMS, being rank the world's top 20 in supporting this system and writing Knowledge base articles, I still can't get job satisfaction. Moreover, the job security is next to zero and I don't understand why people still quote computer as one of the fast growing jobs.

At this time, I'm not a nursing student yet but will be starting Micro in two weeks. My goal is to CLEP in all the general subjects within the next three months as well as getting all my pre-reqs completed before the nursing school application in Aug 04. People think I'm crazy but I was trained in Microsoft that the sky is my limit. If I had done over 20 certification tests all by myself and hitting 90 percentile, I should be able to do the same on CLEP.

In response to one post about being teasted as gay as a male nurse, it is sad that this is the wrong perception of the general public. I'm a male figure skater and the hockey guys teast us. The sport (in this case, nursing career) is neutral. It's just the deep root burried under people's mind that something is tagged either as "male" or "female", and the tag seems to last forever.

I also just passed my CNA and currently not working (waiting for the cert). But I enjoyed my clinicals during CNA school much more than any of my previous IT days. I missed those residents I had a chance to work with.

Great site and great thread !

Thanks for sharing and good luck to you.

I agree with you 1000%

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