Murses

la la la me miss mercy er mr er hunh? wazzat? murse? er wurse? er furse? oh no!!!!!! i a or a man or a transgender? dunno ennymore? why oh why don't they jest leeve things the way the were when females were actresses, actors for females sounds funny to me, i is now gone batty. why not burse, or curse, or durse or gurse or hurse, jurse, or kurse, or lurse, or purse, or rurse, or surse, or turse, or vurse. pu wurse, yurse, or zurse. duh, duh,, duh! makes just as much sense.bye!!!

What the heck was wrong with the letter N to start with?

You won't believe this, take a look at the following link:

http://www.clevelandclinic.org/fhc/staff/physicians.asp?location=Willoughby%20Hills&f=Cardiology

It said that Heidi Morrison (a NP) belong to the

"Preventive Cardiovascular Murses Association". Will someone please contact the web master to correct the mistake.

-Dan

i feel like we're playing with ken and barbie dolls.

and i'm not having fun.

  F G H      I J        K L M   

Ok, so we have Furse and Murse. To come up with a generic term, I take the following - (F+M)/2 = I.5 So we either can use "I" or "J". Can't use "I" because it is a vowel which is follow by another vowel "U". So by default, we have to use "J" as the middle letter.

So Jurse is the new label for nurse :)

-Dan

I like your sense of humor. I just don't think that a name change for either gender is necessary.

I think murse is a fine term -- in a cartoon.

Or we could go the route of dieticians, musicians, physicians, etc., and all become nursicians.

That is the stupidist thing I think I have heard in a long time!! :uhoh21:

You are right of course, there are situations where a female may be more suited for the specific task -- however, the overall profession-- I don't really think it matters -- you will benefit from the different views -- just like you do with multiple races and socioeconomic and educational differences. Maybe nurses with MSNs should be called "Murses", BSNs "Burses", ADNs - "Adurses" and Diploma nurses "Durses" We could then add on another tag for their speciality and another one for their nationality- followed by a set of $$ according to their incomes, and an initial to indicate their gender. IE: MissMercyRN,MSN pedimusre$$F, OR FredSmith RN BSN, Mesuburse$$M:chuckle

Sorry if I am being too sarcastic -- am going to a meeting this morning that could drastically affect some of my staff members and I am trying to blow off some steam BEFRE I get there so I don't feel the need to do so while IN THE MEETING!!

Sorry if I am being too sarcastic -- am going to a meeting this morning that could drastically affect some of my staff members and I am trying to blow off some steam BEFRE I get there so I don't feel the need to do so while IN THE MEETING!!

Hey, no problem. Come and blow off steam about this topic any time. Maybe you can mention about this poll and have everyone laugh at it to break the tension at the right moment.

I am personally finding all the reactions very interesting actually.

Maybe I should have put this thread in the Humor forum.

So far, the poll is interesting as you can see lots of people don't like it. But there are some minority who find it funny. It is interesting that most of the replies are from people who do not like it. It seemed it touched on some hot button.

-Dan

I think murse is a fine term -- in a cartoon.

Or we could go the route of dieticians, musicians, physicians, etc., and all become nursicians.

Sorry to laugh :chuckle:chuckle

But actually that is pretty good, a nursicians. Better than a murse.

Oh, did you know "murse" is also slang for "male-purse" in another context? Just found that out today.

-Dan

I remember when this term came up on "Scrubs". I personally found it quite amusing. I wouldn't want to officially change the title of a nurse who happens to be a man to "murse", but as in the old lady example, I think it's a funny term!! I voted for the "I see nothing wrong with it if the intent is good" choice.

It's like in Harold and Maude where Maude asks, "This is your heorifice?" and Harold says, "Yeorifice!!"

I just don't think that a name change for either gender is necessary.

Thanks for the reply. It just dawned on me that my poll is actually not clear. I don't mean the poll to imply there should or should not be a name change so that you have nurse (female) and murse(male). The term "murse" is already being used in some quarter from my readings, in the context of a slang. It seemed that it is either used in a humorous affectionate way or in a demeaning way, depending on the intent of the person who uses it.

Now as you know, I have another poll that deal with changing the label "nurse" to something else, but it is to change to another more "gender neutral" term, not split the label into male and female version.

Maybe I should rephrase this poll in another way. This poll is not trying to find out if we should split the label "nurse" into a male and a female one. It is trying to find out how people feel about the slang use of the term "murse" as a nurse who is male.

Come to think of it, following scenerio might be interesting. Let's see how everyone feel and how would you act in these hypothetical situations:

Situation A) You are a male nurse. One of female nurse affectionately introduce you to another female nurse as the new "murse" on the floor. Your reaction if you were that male nurse? Your reaction if you were the female nurse who were being introduced to? If your reaction is negative, how would you handle it given you will be working with each other?

Situation B) You are a male nurse. One of male nurse humorously introduce you to another female nurse as the new "murse" on the floor. Your reaction if you were the nurse? Your reaction if you were the other nurse who were being introduced to? If your reaction is negative, how would you handle it given you will be working with each other?

Situation C) You are a male nurse. One of male nurse humorously introduce you to another male nurse as the new "murse" on the floor. Your reaction if you were the nurse? Your reaction if you were the other nurse who were being introduced to? If your reaction is negative, how would you handle it given you will be working with each other?

Situation D) You (a male nurse) are not getting along with a few other female nurses on the floor. You happened to overheard they mentioned something about "murse" in the unit as you walk up. You are the only male nurse in the unit. What is your reaction and what would your action be, if any?

-Dan