Speaking About Nurses Who Moonlight As Dancers

[DoGoodThenGo]

Blonde bombshell Amy Toliver leads a double life to fulfill an incredible dream. The Phoenix resident sheds her clothes several times each week nightly at "iCandy Burlesque" in Planet Hollywood's Miracle Mile Shops and at the new SHe nightclub in Crystals. By day, she dons scrubs for nursing school to follow in her mother's footsteps to become a trauma emergency room nurse.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/feb/06/photos-amy-toliver-double-life-nursing-student-day/

[edmia, BSN, RN]

I don't think this is bad at all. She's not a stripper in a dingy place near a truck stop. She's a dancer in a burlesque show. Big difference.

I do think she's a little unrealistic about her future though. She wants to be a travel nurse after graduation and then go into the army? Not gonna happen. She could go straight into the Air Force for some good trauma training and then travel though.

Good for her! She's got a lot if debt to pay down.

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[joanna73, BSN, RN]

I've read the article, and I noticed this, too. She will find that nursing isn't as easy to break into as she thinks, especially travel nursing.

[Overland1, RN]

...According to persons one knows there are even former "working girls" that have become nurses.

As nursing jobs are tight in many areas, one could wonder how many have done it the other way around.

[Altra, BSN, RN]

Really -- this individual chooses a line of work that some will find unsavory, happily discusses it with the media -- and some of you believe that this will have zero effect on her professional future?

I might have some swampland to sell ya ...

[serenitylove14]

I think her displaying it publicly would be a bad idea, but once a company does a background check they will find out anyways! I use to dance and even had a dancers permit through the state so I am sure they saw that during the background check. It hasnt decreased any of my possibilities. I had the same issues most new grads had and honestly I have had several job interviews and a couple offers.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

If she's not breaking any law and she's willing to accept the consequences (if any) of her actions, then more power to her!

I just hope that her dancing career won't impede either her licensure or her job hunt when she graduates...then again, it is Las Vegas and maybe the employers have a somewhat more liberal attitude towards these things than other areas of the country.

Whatever and wherever she is, she's an adult and made her choices, so she'll have to deal with the ramifications. Best of luck to her.

[Paul'in'FL]

[quote=edmia;7166267

I do think she's a little unrealistic about her future though. She wants to be a travel nurse after graduation and then go into the army?

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The military will not commission an officer who is an exotic dancer....they might take her on if she stops her "part-time" job, but getting a security clearance is going to be extremely difficult. This sort of "diversity" is anthetical to the military's world-view.

[Meriwhen, ASN, BSN, MSN, RN]

The military will not commission an officer who is an exotic dancer....they might take her on if she stops her "part-time" job but getting a security clearance is going to be extremely difficult. This sort of "diversity" is anthetical to the military's world-view.[/b']

I know of several military (mostly enlisted) who augment their income with dancing and/or other exotic but not illegal sideline careers. Stripping is a popular one. But most of them took on the second career AFTER getting enlisted or commissioned, not before.

Not saying that this means the military's stand has changed any or that you are incorrect. Just saying that it's out there.

[Bortaz, MSN, RN]

Where are all the stripper-bod-job-worthy nurses working? None of my co-workers fit the physical requirements!

[Paul'in'FL]

I know of several military (mostly enlisted) who augment their income with dancing and/or other exotic but not illegal sideline careers. Stripping is a popular one. But most of them took on the second career AFTER getting enlisted or commissioned, not before.

Not saying that this means the military's stand has changed any or that you are incorrect. Just saying that it's out there.

I understand your point...mine was that standards are WAAYYYY different for officers, who must hold higher clearences EVEN to be in a medical field. Any officer in any branch of service doing this must be an expert at flying under the radar.....A bad CREDIT score can louse up an officer's career, for heaven's sake~as can known adultery!

[hodgieRN]

best thread ever

[mariebailey, MSN, RN]

Does anyone think taking your clothes off for $ may cause women to be viewed in a negative light? Do you think it could indirectly set the profession of nursing back when we have people stripping to enter the profession? Nursing as a female-dominated profession has been a particularly oppressed profession without people stripping their way through school. Just my opinion.