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

2,005 members have participated

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.

Specializes in Tele, Cardiac, CCU, MICU, SICU.

I know for a fact that at my facility the majority of male RNs are in the ICUs and the ED. I think I know of three guys who work on Med/Surg (on nightshift, anyhow).

James, RN

PS: I work in the Surgical-Trauma ICU.

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Hoping to go to the OR or ER when I pass the NCLEX

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Specializes in ED, Flight.

Nearing the end of my first year out of UNM. ER nurse and Flight Paramedic.

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Specializes in ICU.

Lol. I almost said L&D.:yeah:

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CICU, SICU going into anesthesia.

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Haemodialysis for me. Thought I had better mention it as no one would guess it from my screen name!:wink2:

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I'm currently working in the OR as a scrub and am waiting to test for my RN. At that point I will shift into a circulating role or I may try and work in CCU or ER. Love the OR but it lacks some of the autonomy nurses on other units seem to have. Maybe the grass is not always greener.

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I wanna start ER after my NCLEX

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Specializes in ICU and Dialysis.

Does anyone have an idea if this is a good representative sampling of men in nursing?

Also, when I graduated men constituted approx 10% of registered nurses but it seems that it could be lower now - 5-8%? Anyone know? I've searched but can't find any good info.

Thanks - just curious,

John Schiller, RN, EMT-P

Master Sergeant USAFR

Somewhere in Afghanistan

51 days and counting...

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Specializes in Pediatric Cardiac.

Well, I'm torn.

I work in a pediatric Cardiac Care Unit. Sorta a step down unit for our CICU.

:D

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Geriatric, Behavioral Health.

As a sample of 1285 male nurses who have taken this poll thus far, not bad! It does provide a nice glance as to where our male nurses tend to work. It is not representative in that several categories of nursing may not be listed...and that doesn't even include sub-categories of nursing. PhillyNurseGuy is a nice example of this. But, all in all, not a bad sample of men in nursing who are members and who have taken the time to take the poll. Of course, it does not reflect any of the men who have NOT taken it or chose not to take it.

Good question, RNParamedicJohn.

And also....thank you for your service to our country, John.

Wolfie

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Thunderwolf,

As your above post stated that 1285 men had participated in this poll.

As someone who is in the process of trying to get into Nursing School I do find the poll interesting.

Could you please post the results of this poll?? or did I miss the tally somewhere along the line??

Thank you,

As they say in Boston,

Mahk

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