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Women find male nurses attractive if they are attractive. One good way to be an attractive male nurse is to have future goals of becoming an NP (As all nurses should, be they male or female). I like female nurses who want to advance as well for example. Some female/gay male clients will love the attention and may flirt with you. You are taking care of them and therefore some will love it and hit on you. It's part of the job to stay professional. In conclusion, yes, female clients (and some male clients) will hit on you. Female coworkers and random females will find you attractive if you meet their fancy. Nothing you can do there. Just be yourself. A female may pick up on any insecurities that you have about being a nurse, which is definitely unattractive.

Interdisciplinary communication in the ED is full of **** this! and **** that! Patients ******** about everything too! It is a high pace environment, so just go in ready to learn and shout ****! with them! ER nurses are awesome in my experience. I loved my time there. They are very helpful in my experience (everyone in the ED).

Patient care and safety should always come first. The female RN asking for your assistance is often doing her job by finding you and asking for help...either by recognizing that she can't perform an order alone or...since females deal with a lot of **** from patients that can be scary...acknowledging that she feels uncomfortable alone. Work it out with her so that it is not one-sided, and be the best team possible. If you are constantly hounded unfairly, then maybe HR would care, but otherwise, work it out with your peers. If you are called to reposition her 400 pound client every 2 hours, have her suction a trach for you or something, or cover you for lunch, etc

Female students actually like having male students in their cohort (gasp). It is logical for an institution to have certain spots only available for competition among males. I read a post earlier in this thread that confirmed this but it is painfully obvious if you just think like an admissions director trying to pull students. In practice, I have experienced interested faculty, and like others have said, I stand out. Faculty who have years of experience have also flat out told me I will have an easier time in this field as a male and that I will progress easier. I have gotten less clinical experience in certain areas than female nurses. Male nurses are more often rejected by patients. Male nursing students need to be very lucky to learn anything meaningful in OB clinical. Females in my cohort often tell me about the annoyance of the female-on-female bitchery that occurs. Being male is often a relief to an all female floor and a neutral presence in the field. The post about watching what you say is true. Being a nurse is a professional field and when you are in the workplace, rumors like everything I just said are likely not true. Finally, never bring up being male or that there is a male shortage. It is common knowledge, and universities don't ever discriminate unfairly. Also, I have seen some female nurses who blow male nurses out of the water. They are kinda rare, but when you meet a bona fide "Florence Nightingale" you will truly respect what a female nurse is capable of :) Men are different nurses, not better nurses.