The Guys Club: Guy Students Come on In!

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Hi All!

I'm a crazy father of 2 ex-premed who just recently turned down Northwestern to go into a RN program.

I already have an Associate in Science, but I'll be getting another ADN and then go to a 4 yr school.

When I went to an info session about the RN program ill be trying to get into, out of like 70 ppl only 5 were guys.

So I want to know are there any men out there?

Yes indeed we do exist, but not many of us. I am a senior BSN student in Florida. According to a research paper I wrote on male nurses last year, we only occupy 5% of the nursing workforce in the U.S. It appears our numbers are slightly rising, but not much. In my class of 36 we have 3 guys, which is cool for the most part for the exception of a few catty females (which you will find in Anyworkplace U.S.A.). They certainly are easy on the eyes, and make STD's and erectile dysfunction fun lectures.

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Specializes in med-surg.

I start my BSN program in May at Hopkins. I think there will be a few guys, but I bet the ratio will be similar to what you have seen in your programs.

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Just started my program this week. Three guys in a class of around 45. It'll be interesting...

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Specializes in Psych/Public Health.

There are eight men out of 40 in my cohort...thats 20%!!! this is very refreshing!!!

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yes ,i am a male nurse ,too. i am from china. i am working in the operating room.

but ,i am really want to go abroad to be a nurse.

but i dont know how about the male nurse in usa or australia , and i want to make some friends who are male nurses, i want to enjoy sth or disscuss sth with our boys.

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I'm in my 2nd year of an ADN program with 9 men of a class of 59. We lost 1 guy to re-deployment and 1 to "Failure to Thrive" in a clinical situation or we would have an even higher %. Other than OB/Mother-Baby, it seems to me that there are more men pursuing nursing. I am curious if numbers nationally reflect this trend. I suspect there are more and more men looking to nursing as a 1st or 2nd career (I worked in an unrelated field for 20 yrs.) but become stymied by the pre-req's, application waiting lists, etc. For me, it's definitely been worth it, but I'm lucky that I have a wife and daughter supportive of what will be 3 years of school and clinicals and not much dinero to show for it...yet. Well, maybe not then either.

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Hey all, I'm in my second year of pre reg pediatric nursing, another 3 months and I will be in 3rd (Lord help me!). I've been looking for a fourm like this for some time and I'm even happier to find a male student area! Being the only male within my cohort doing pedes has been rather loney. Funnily enough the males on mental health and adult have not tended to be approachable.

And during my training I've only come across 4 male staff nurses so its nice to know there are just afew males in nursing out there :p.

Looking forward to getting stuck into chatting!

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I'll be starting an Accelerated BSN/MSN program this May. I don't know how many guys my incoming class (class of 2009) will have but I hope enough where we can find shelter in each other's company amidst a throng of female nursing students! But I'm used to it I suppose. I first got my BA in psychology and I was one of a handful of guys. Even in all the prereq courses for nursing that I took there would mostly be females there, except probably in physio where there was more of a mix since other certain majors also require their students to take that course. But I'm real excited about starting the nursing program!

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Specializes in med-surg.

Where are you starting your program? I am attending Johns Hopkins SON, the accelerated program.

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I'll be attending the University of Rochester, and moving there this April.

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Specializes in med-surg.

I am originally from Rochester. I applied there, too, since my family is all there (I go there a lot as well). I haven't heard back from them since my interview, though. When did you hear, out of curiosity?

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I got the letter, er, package, in the mail roughly two weeks ago. But before that I had called to ask when they were sending out their acceptance letters and the lady on the phone said they were sending them out in batches and that their last batch comes out the second week of Feb. Her usage of the word batch made it sound like they were sending out mail order cookies.

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