Polling our male nurses: What area of nursing are you currently in right now?

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  1. As a man in Nursing, I primarily work in the area of.....

    • 377
      Emergency Room
    • 81
      Perioperative
    • 439
      MICU/SICU/CCU
    • 117
      Pediatics/PICU/NICU
    • 33
      Physical rehab
    • 51
      Medical
    • 188
      Med Surg
    • 128
      Psychiatry/Chemical Dependency/Detox
    • 23
      L & D/Maternity
    • 42
      Oncology
    • 118
      Long Term Care/Geriatrics
    • 18
      Hospice
    • 49
      Management
    • 5
      Independent Practice
    • 29
      Education
    • 5
      Sales/Pharmaceuticals
    • 4
      Nursing Law
    • 29
      Home Health Care
    • 6
      Case Management
    • 19
      Outpatient/Physician Office
    • 13
      Research
    • 185
      Other
    • 46
      Transport/Flight Nursing

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatric, Behavioral Health.

Thought this would give us all a nice visual once folks place their vote.

Currently, I am in Ortho-Neuro Med Surg.

Also, I have placed a similar poll in our Male Nursing Student Forum. That poll can be viewed here:

https://allnurses.com/forums/f213/poll-male-nursing-school-my-goal-desire-work-area-155146.html

Good comparison threads when viewed together.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Interesting poll. It's going to be interesting to see if my stereotype of male nurses perferring places like ER and ICU is true.

I would eventually like to get into education

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Specializes in Critical Care.

Critical Care: add me to the stereotype.

~faith,

Timothy.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatric, Behavioral Health.

Transport/Flight Nursing added.

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Specializes in Peds leukemia, APON, GI in a clinic.

Peds BMT, I am one of 5 in our area, about 10% of the nurses on our floor. Every day I am pleasently surprised at how many of my peers are also men.

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Med/Surg on the Cardiac/Gen. Surg/Bariatric, floor.........my goal is to get to the PACU someday soon.

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Specializes in PACU, ER, PAIN.

wow! 2 in L/D.....more power to you!

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Specializes in O.R., ED, M/S.

O.R. for almost 30 years!!! YIKES!!! Time flies when you are having fun.

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Specializes in Telemetry, OR, ICU.

Critical Care

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Specializes in SICU-MICU,Radiology,ER.

Havent we done this already?

Anyway.... five years ICU-SICU (transplant-cardiac etc etc).

I moonlight in a couple small ERs.

Currently deployed.

Would like to get into transport or flight. I dont think I could stomach the ICU anymore after this. Id like to go to EMT-P school for fun but I dont see how I could find the time-

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Specializes in Emergency.

Went into the ED right out of school, sort of goes with the Army side. Hoping to continue with Critical Care or Or. Really found Med/Surg dull during school.

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Specializes in Telemetry, OR, ICU.
Went into the ED right out of school, sort of goes with the Army side. Hoping to continue with Critical Care or Or. Really found Med/Surg dull during school.

Were you a Combat Medic in the AMEDD?

BTW, if you found Med/Surg boring most likely will find the OR boring, too. I'd bet you'd like working in the ICU, or CCU.

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