The End of Men

I liked the article.

I haven't seen my school do anything specific to recruit men.

The nursing school I went to has a "non-traditional career" grant that provides funding to encourage men to go into nursing among other things. During my last year, I put together a presentation and went around to the local high schools to give talks to students (aimed mainly at males) to get them to consider nursing. My presentation focused mainly on dispelling the same myths of nursing that preventing me from considering the career when I was a high school student.

In my class, we had an assignment to write an essy about Nursing. One of my male classmates wrote on the history of Nursing, going back before Florence Nightengale. It was interesting to find out that Nursing was originally a "Male" job, usually performed by Monks or other religious males. I think it would go a long way to impressing that males in Nursing is more than an acceptable career choise.

The nursing school I went to has a "non-traditional career" grant that provides funding to encourage men to go into nursing among other things. During my last year, I put together a presentation and went around to the local high schools to give talks to students (aimed mainly at males) to get them to consider nursing. My presentation focused mainly on dispelling the same myths of nursing that preventing me from considering the career when I was a high school student.

Ditto here.

I also got two scholarships while in school. Both were set up so that X amt. of females got one and X amt. of males got one. Being a male nurse, IMO, got me those scholarships. One required you to write an essay about how you will use your education/course of study to give back to the community. Easy enough to write for a nursing student. The second required something written to the effect of "How does graduating with the degree you are pursuing change you as an individual?" I noticed in both cases, the people granted the money were from education, nursing, social work and other such majors.

My school has a dedicated education program where randomly selected students attend all their clinicals at the same hospital, and tend to get more hands-on experience. There are 25 spots available, but the number of spots reserved for interested male students is much higher than what would be proportional to the number of males in the program. The idea is to make sure male students are adequately represented, but it's throwing randomization out the window.

Thanks to all who replied. The reason i started this thread is because I question

the statement the author of "The End of Men" wrote: ""Nursing schools have tried

hard to recruit men in the past few years, with minimal success." I'd like to see

her sources for that assertion. I'm not convinced that nursing schools have

"tried hard" as the author suggests. But I could be wrong. That's why I posted

this this thread. Apparently, there's little interest in this topic. If that's the case,

there seems to be little interest in changing the status quo and creating more gender

diversity within the nursing profession.

Thanks to all who replied. The reason i started this thread is because I question

the statement the author of "The End of Men" wrote: ""Nursing schools have tried

hard to recruit men in the past few years, with minimal success." I'd like to see

her sources for that assertion. I'm not convinced that nursing schools have

"tried hard" as the author suggests. But I could be wrong. That's why I posted

this this thread. Apparently, there's little interest in this topic. If that's the case,

there seems to be little interest in changing the status quo and creating more gender

diversity within the nursing profession.

So you were expecting outrage? Is this your attempt to get it?

"So you were expecting outrage? Is this your attempt to get it?"

No I was expecting information. And civility.

"So you were expecting outrage? Is this your attempt to get it?"

No I was expecting information. And civility.

From what I could see, that is exactly what you received....

The July/August issue of "Atlantic" has an interesting article called "The End of Men," about how

men are losing out in many areas of our society, esp. in the work force and in getting an education. It's

interesting, provocative article I highly recommend.

On page. 64, the author writes: "Nursing schools have tried hard to recruit men in the past

few years, with minimal success."

I'm curious as to what nursing schools have been doing to recruit men, what strategies have

they tried that haven't been very successful. Can those out there who know provide us with specific

nursing schools, specific examples of what they have tried to do to recruit men into nursing, and how

successful or unsuccessful it turned out.

Interesting article. Maybe a little overstated. I don't see us as an endangered species, quite yet.

My school didn't do any particular affirmative action to attract men, but my instructors were happy to have 16 of us in a class of 80, a record, at the time. My facility also has no measures in place to recruit men. I am still undecided as to whether they should. I guess I'm still used to the idea that men have an unfair advantage in most fields, which the article suggests may no longer be so true.

Some of the things that attracted me to nursing, like job security and decent pay, would probably appeal to a lot of guys. Some of the things that keep some guys from considering nursing probably should. It can be a pretty nasty job, and there's a lot to put up with. One could, perhaps, interpret the example of male second-career nurses to support the article: from various industries we are "reduced" to "wiping butts." I prefer to think those of us who had to adapt have taken the initiative to learn a "profession." Personally, I'm better off financially as a nurse than I ever was, and while I do tend to put profession in quotation marks, it seems like a honorable and important occupation.

I'm happy as a nurse. I sometimes joke that I'm a carpenter with a really crappy retirement plan. Truthfully, carpentry was about as much a service job as a manufacturing job. But I do have a certain nostalgia for those jobs were I was actually making something tangible. Nursing takes plenty of creativity and problem-solving, but you don't get much opportunity to look back and say, "I made that."

Eh, well. It's something to do until I can marry a doctor and be a SAHH.