KirbyEMT

Yes, I'm an EMT, and it's about 75% men in EMS, compared to 90% female in nursing. But I don't make my choices on where people tend to work, I do what I want to do. Nurses here make 26/hr, paramedics make 14/hr. That's kind of an obvious choice...

The funniest part is taking care of patient's with a female complaint in the ER. I'm very professional about all my care, but usually halfway through the assessment questions. They'll blurt out, are you old enough to be talking about all this? Depending on how you feel they'll take a joke, I'll reply, "NO, but I'm VERY experienced."

I'm an ER tech (EMT) and halfway through RN school. At work and school I get asked if I'm training to be a Dr. Also, I'm a 20 year old, medium frame, but could pass for a 14 year old, so I get asked the MOST, how old I am. I tell them I just turned 12.

Everyone works in different environments. In order to maintain my reputation, I try very hard not to talk about others behind their back, to stay neutral and out of all the little catfights, and don't make comments relating to the personality/appearance of the women I work with. Now outside of work, I'm a lot less reserved. A compliment to one woman can be taken the wrong way by another woman nearby who overhears it. It depends where you work though. There's guys where I work that've lost their jobs before over stuff like this that was taken the wrong way, because sexual harrassment is hard to define, and is usually assumed to be completely the guy's fault.

Where else is bread 99c and houses 1K/month

Champaign, IL 21-25/hr RN 9-11/hr CNA/EMT 5.50-7.50 LPN (just kidding-I really don't know.)

I'm going to pay my mastercard with a hug

At our school, we're REQUIRED to wear lab coats, BECAUSE we're students.

Dude. Your perverted. Get out of the medical field now before you make a mess of your life. If patient care is not your priority, OUT.

I agree that paramedic would be better! But I'm a EMT-B right now and not wanting to spend extra time in school when I'm almost an RN!

EMT-B. I'm a Vol. FireFighter/EMT and PRN ALS service EMT-B and work full time as an ER Tech. Being an ER tech get's you hands on experience with IV's, splints, casts, you see a little bit of everything. Not all is drama or trauma, but you can learn a lot if you want to. ER tech jobs are everywhere!

Personally, here in the midwest, they don't have quotas for anything, it's grades that get you in or keep you out of RN school. There are several African American Male RN students here, I'm good pals with a couple of them, and quite a few AA female RN students, and it is pretty much representative of the community in general. Glad to hear you're pursuing nursing, but keep in mind these places really look at grades.

I think the Biker thing is definitely not compatible with the professional RN physique. Make sure you're neat, slick, tidy, organized, respectful and diligent. If you do that, people will be wanting to hire you as an RN. Don't worry too much about clinical instructors. They're just out-dated RN's. I actually have the opposite. My clinical instructor greets us with...hugs!? She's about 6'3" herself, with pure white hair, looks like she might have known Florence Nightingale personally. Definitely awkward, since we are trying to prove ourselves as medical professionals, not have a day with "grandma".

I don't wear anything under my scrubs. Underwear is for sissies.

Nursing does attract a wide variety. I know a bunch of Guys who could be called macho: deer hunting, firefighting, former paramedic, P90X type of guys, ex-Marines. Then there's the guys with the slick hair, the lisp, who are extroardinarily effeminate, and largely incapable RN's. Then there's a ever growing group of just regular guys, who have a wife, kids, and just can't seem to be categorized as normal because they're a MALE NURSE! eew!