Males working in the NICU?

[cph1993]

Hello!

Although I know that nursing is the path I want to take, I am torn as to what area of nursing I want to go into. I'm so interested in everything medical that it is hard for me to imagine picking one area and hopefully making a career out of it. I've always been interested in trauma or cardio/CVICU but I recently started working as a unit secretary in the NICU at one of the larger hospitals in Southwest Missouri. As a male I never thought I would find this area to be as fascinating as it is and can possibly vision myself working in this unit if the opportunity were to present itself. I have already accepted the fact that being a male nurse already makes me a minority in the field, however in a field considered to be as feminine as working with babies I am extremely outnumbered by women haha I am one of only 4 guys who work in the unit. (One is a one of the Neonatologist, the other two are RT's). I already plan on becoming a NP after nursing school. I was just wondering what everyone's thoughts are about whether there is any place for a male nurse to be working in a NICU either as a nurse or potentially even as an NNP?

[VintageSwagger]

How is it possible that most level iv NICU babies in your hospital are feeders and growers? Why would your hospital give them a distinction of level 4 instead of 2? This is a genuine question, I've never heard of this.

Yeah, what Zeus said... me either.

My level IV rarely if ever has feeder growers.