Question for nurses that are male...

[NurseLife88]

So I'm an avid reader of corny advice columns, just can't seem to get enough lol. Stumbled across a column this week. A nurse wrote in regarding some problems his wife had with his career choice as an RN. The part of this that stood out was he identified himself as a Nurse who is male and not a "male nurse" because he found that term to be offensive. I had never thought much about the term male nurse and didn't realize it could be construed as offensive to some men. Now I am curious as to how you nurses that are men like to be identified and/or how you identify yourself. I realize we don't say she is woman nurse so I got to thinking why it is many of say he is a male nurse, instead of just being a nurse. What do you think?

[MJH3483, BSN, RN]

im not a new new nurse and have been nursing way longer than a year. don't let my incomplete profile allow you to draw so many conclusions about who i am. maybe it's time to stop being so bitter towards men.

[LuckyMoon]

Well, no, but men are (infrequently) asked to perform certain tasks based on their gender. So? After thousands of years of male privilege, you don't have much to complain about.

This is just not true. For thousands of years, men have been sent to war to fight for the privileged few (men and women), or have been made to do dangerous jobs such as mining, construction, etc. Throughout history males and females have both been subjected to performing tasks simply because of their biological sex.

[Flatline, BSN, RN]

I do.

When the word Feminazi comes up, I know I am dealing with someone who is boohooing about entitlement.

He's made it clear that I don't speak for him. I don't.

Let it go.

To me the terms like feminazi, misogyny, and even misandry all belong in the same category of pejorative terms used to launch ad hominem attacks instead of debating the substance of the content.

I find it revealing you and others attack someone for using the term feminazi but throwing around the term misogyny is seen as perfectly acceptable.

The debate should remain in the realm of whether it is acceptable to discriminate against someone based upon sex. Some here think it is perfectly OK as long as they personally benefit and others would disagree that any discrimination is unacceptable.

[Farawyn]

im not a new new nurse and have been nursing way longer than a year. don't let my incomplete profile allow you to draw so many conclusions about who i am. maybe it's time to stop being so bitter towards men.

So, you have an incomplete profile and I should not think you only have a year, even though that's what it said?

Oookay.

I love men.

[95PGTTech]

You know what's awesome about working with male nurses? Most of us have concrete thick skin and are far too busy or purely uninterested in drama like debating about being called nurse, murse, or male nurse.

I've been called all three. I've also been called doctor (often), sailor, a-hole, a slew of racist and religious slurs, more curses than I can remember, the devil...and at the other extreme, a ton of compliments from geriatric patients like guardian angel. I could honestly care less what you call me...I'm here to do a job, I do it well, clock out and go home. I try not to take my baggage in to work, and I try not to take my work baggage home.

[MJH3483, BSN, RN]

or you could've taken time to read what i wrote earlier and know that all of that could not have been accomplished in a year. oooookayyyy

[Flatline, BSN, RN]

So, you have an incomplete profile and I should not think you only have a year, even though that's what it said?

Oookay.

I love men.

I would recommend that we try to restrain from inappropriate and quite honestly sexist stereotypes based upon an arbitrary differentiator like sex in this discussion.

There is enough to debate in the substance without making sexist and discriminatory comments.

If this sounds absurd then let's flip the argument to say that we were talking about discrimination against Native Americans and you were having a disagreement with a Native American poster. You respond flippantly to a post by that Native American, which is perfectly OK, but end it with a flippant comment like "I love Native Americans." By that simple statement you are inferring a blanket false discriminatory stereotype.

See how that would be inappropriate?

If you truly would like to see equal rights for women then equal rights must start with you. Ethnocentricity is an important concept.

[Farawyn]

You know what's awesome about working with male nurses? Most of us have concrete thick skin and are far too busy or purely uninterested in drama like debating about being called nurse, murse, or male nurse.

I've been called all three. I've also been called doctor (often), sailor, a-hole, a slew of racist and religious slurs, more curses than I can remember, the devil...and at the other extreme, a ton of compliments from geriatric patients like guardian angel. I could honestly care less what you call me...I'm here to do a job, I do it well, clock out and go home. I try not to take my baggage in to work, and I try not to take my work baggage home.

Well, not all male nurses...as we can see by this thread.

[Farawyn]

I would recommend that we try to restrain from inappropriate and quite honestly sexist stereotypes based upon an arbitrary differentiator like sex in this discussion.

There is enough to debate in the substance without making sexist and discriminatory comments.

If this sounds absurd then let's flip the argument to say that we were talking about discrimination against Native Americans and you were having a disagreement with a Native American poster. You respond flippantly to a post by that Native American, which is perfectly OK, but end it with a flippant comment like "I love Native Americans." By that simple statement you are inferring a blanket false discriminatory stereotype.

See how that would be inappropriate?

If you truly would like to see equal rights for women then equal rights must start with you. Ethnocentricity is an important concept.

Hi, I would suggest you stop chiding grown people on a public message board. I can rebut how I like, as can anyone else here.

[rescueninja1987]

I don't care. Not even a little bit. My friends and I sort of joke about being "murses" and heavily outnumbered by women. One guy says "I'm a man in a woman's world, and I'm just trying to survive" My dad used to be a nurse and a lot of his buddies were nurses he worked with, so I never gave it a second thought about men being nurses; not until I was considering the profession for myself did I fully realize that nurses are traditionally women. I don't even mind patients asking if I'm going to school to be a doctor (no because I have a family and other things going on), or when they ask why I didn't become a doctor (because I didn't want the hours, liability or bureaucracy, nor did I want to specialize in one particular thing)

[LuckyMoon]

Hi, I would suggest you stop chiding grown people on a public message board. I can rebut how I like, as can anyone else here.

Wow... the blatant hypocrisy in this statement is bewildering.

[dec2007]

[quote 95 PGTTech

I've been called all three. I've also been called doctor (often), sailor, a-hole, a slew of racist and religious slurs, more curses than I can remember, the devil...and at the other extreme, a ton of compliments from geriatric patients like guardian angel. I could honestly care less what you call me...I'm here to do a job, I do it well, clock out and go home. I try not to take my baggage in to work, and I try not to take my work baggage home.

This!