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Bingo!

Working with Women..."it was the best of times, it was the worst of times...." As a bull in the china shop I can say men and women are different and science backs that statement up. There are good people and bad people everywhere. Nursing is and has been largly a woman's career field so men are in the minority. We enter the field and understand that. As a minority I have seen discrimination, and endured all the bad traits the fairer? sex has to throw out and they are many - we tend to remember the bad things that happen to us. I would recommend men think long and hard before making nursing a career choice it is much better mentally to work with people who have brains that work like ours - the thought processes are incompatable basically even if the results are often similar.

I am at the other end of this career field, spent 20 years in Nursing and yes, I made the wrong career choice. I agree you can try different areas. I found outpatient care tolerable No one is going to die the stress is much lower than 12-19hours of rotating shifts with a high patient volume and acuity with back stabbing coworkers, hours being basically 9-5 Monday through Friday or some variation of that. the patients are mostly ambulatory. Toward the end I picked up a certification in Diabetic Education, though I hate nursing I would return if I could find a job working with an Endocrinologist providing education - it is a dream job and the patients really appreciate the care provided. Unfortunately there are not many jobs out there in my area. I could probably with my masters degree shoot for Nurse Practitioner and then find some providers to work under as their Diabetic Manager but at 53 I may just change careers the medical field does tend to get old after the honeymoon wears off. Of course I recall now that there never was a honeymoon as Nurses eat their young and stepping out of nursing school onto a surgical floor I never knew hell existed on earth, after 6 years, including a move to Medical Surgical floors I moved to Outpatient care - it was like night and day!