Dmurse

Its been my experience that there are no hindrances being a male in a predominantly female career. I am in LVN student and I have worked with RN males that do nothing but justice for all males entering into the profession. Not only that but I have asked many Female nurses and what I often get is there is less gossip (this is considered a very good thing), and what I have heard from instructors is that men are wanted especially in OB because while it's sad it is still like this having a male in a certain area will actually increase the pay of the women working there so we are of course more than welcomed because the females and males are supposed to have equal skills etc. As far as tattoos go besides hospital policy and whatever your patients may think they should be ok.

I am a nursing student and my two best friends are policemen and one was a part time firefighter. Oh and my Mother is a teacher. One trait they all seem to have is this proactive doing good for the community. They also seem to have a lot more time and job satisfaction in my opinion ESPECIALLY compared to nurses. Again in my opinion working in a professional setting SNF, Hospital, LTC whatever has a way of dehumanizing us in the eyes of the people we generally get people at their worst and they generally do not want to see us because we cause pain or in someway generally are related to pain or just plain making people do what they ought to do to live longer, feel better or whatever and it's stuff they do not like and often do not want to hear. Say versus a firefighter comes in saves you from a burning house gets to be a hero and won't tell you what to do. Teachers well they get you in the first years of your life in grain knowledge is power and subsequently money happy life etc. A hero in my book If it weren't for teachers I would never be a nurse. Even policemen who get a lot of flack notice they HAVE TO TELL PEOPLE WHAT TO DO. Also end up saving people by doing what they do and are nowhere near as intrusive as what a nurse does. I think the community just doesn't understand how essential we nurses are. Maybe if we copied the policeman firefighter teacher model we can get through to people the same way...Their stomachs!

Hi there, I am a nursing student and the costs of scrubs is one of my concerns at this point. I have done a lot of research and the two sites that seem the cheapest are rmfscrubs.com and allheart.com. The rmf scrubs site is cheaper of the two by far but you also have to communicate more like emailing what you want. Hope this helps!