Nurse in training: Any Male Nurses at the Alfred Hospital Melbourne?

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Specializes in aged care.

Hi there,

I'm about to commence my Nursing course in a few weeks time, and have started checking out

potential hospital placements where would like to gain experience.

One of the best hospitals in Australia, The Alfred Hospital, is one of these desired destinations.

However upon checking out their website, and also the material that they have for prospective nurses,

I see no evidence of there being any males in this profession at the Alfred.

Maybe, it isn't desired to hire male nurses there?

Does anybody now any male nurses at the Alfred Hospital?

We seem to be a rare commodite in most places...lol.

Atm im volunteering in the ambulance service, and LOViNg IT!!!!

There are many males that I volunteer with, and they are also studying to become a nurse, so that is

encouraging.

so going into paramedics is another potential.

Please advise anybody....!

Matt

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i don't know the stats for australia, but in the US, around 10% of nurses are guys (rare). nursing is a female dominated job here, but males seem to get hired quicker, get paid more and get the promotions faster.

btw, mcleods daughters is a good show.

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Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

Of course there is male nurses in melbourne!!! Not sure about the Alfred but the Royal Melbourne defo has men working on the wards as nurses. It is about 10-15% male alot of international nurses but also so aussies as well. I'm sure there will be guys in you class as well! Good luck

Also the better pay / promotions thing that was mentioned in the previos post doesn't fly in the public system here as our pay is determined by the Victorian (health) pay award and promotions are based on skill and experience.

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yes there are males at the alfred! maybe not heaps, but one of my mates is a RN- Div 2 there, and i know another male doing placement there.

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Specializes in aged care.

great replies. thanks.

that's encouraging to hear that there are male nurses at the Alfred and the RMH.

It's just that the website looked as if it was exclusively for females, what with all the grads providing

feedback and all.

was at the Alfred today with Dad, who is a patient there, took the Opportunity to check out the library facilities

( first rate!), and take a look at the place.

It would be awesome, to do my placement there....pure thrill.

Thanks to all the resp's

heheh....yeah McLeod's daughters not bad I guess....i kinda like the RPA medical emergencies and have even

started watching Grey's Anatomy.

Any nurses also paramedics?

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Specializes in -.

Ooooh I'd love to work at the Alfred when I finish !

I'm currently finishing my Div 2 at TAFE....Would like to go on and do a Bachelor of Nursing / Bachelor of Emergency Medicine (Paramedic) but I hear the EMT side of things is really hard to get into...:idea:

But yeah...I'm definitely going to do my Div 1 at least !!

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Moved to the Australian and New Zealand forum

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Specializes in CTICU.

I worked at the Alfred about 7 years, there are definitely plenty of male nurses there (although I'm not sure how or why that would influence whether you go there...). Of course, nursing is female-dominated so most representations on websites etc have women in them... representing the majority. Who is pictured on a website hardly represents who works there.

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I live in a major regional area in the country, male nurses make up most of the unit managers and nurse co-ordinators. Wouldn't go to them for advice or help though, coz they are not quite up with clinical skills, ,straight out of grad year - anum to num to hospital nurse co-ordinator in 3 years post uni. I suppose because they can work full-time and females have other commitments :lol2::twocents:

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Specializes in Community, Renal, OR.

The unit manager in the dialysis unit at the Alfred is a male, and one of my best friends! He's a great nurse :)

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Specializes in Medical.

You could always watch an episode of the Alfred-based doco series "Medical Emergency" - a friend of mine was featured in the opening credits; he still works in the department, along with a dozen other guys. Men tend to be more concentrated in some specialties (ED, ICU, renal, psych) and less in others (aged care, mid, paeds) but I don't know of any areas where no men work.

If your dad's an inpatient maybe you could talk to some of the nurses involved in his care about nursing in general, nursing at the Alfred, and men who nurse. Good luck :)

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