To All Female Nurses ????

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As female nurses, what do u think about male nurses and why ?

This site is rapidly becoming my least favorite to visit. Why do so many people here feel the need to so rapidly jump down the throats of the OPs? You assume the worst and instead of attempting to be helpful, you criticize the OP or leave sarcastic or otherwise unkind words. That expression, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all?" That could be used a little bit more around here I think. What I took from this post was that we have a male high school student here who is interested in nursing but has some concerns and, oh my god how terrible, wants some opinions of those actually in the field. I am sorry, but no search on google about nursing is going to give answers as good as those straight from the mouths of those living/breathing nursing day in, day out. If I am wrong about the OP's intentions? Well, I have been wrong before and will be again as will every other person in this world. I still prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt.

To answer the OPs question, in general I feel the same about male nurses as I do female nurses. Male nurses are not such an anomoly anymore. There may be some patients who may look at you strangely when you tell them, "No, I'm not your doctor, I'm your nurse," (because pts always seemed to assume that of even my male classmates in nursing school) and some patients may not wish to be cared for by a man (don't take it personally). But, every patient has there quirks and you learn to deal with them. Personally, I hope more men continue to take an interest in nursing. It is still such a woman-dominated career and the diversity would be nice. Many nurses will say it's nice to have male nurses around because there will be less drama/gossip/insert-trait-typically-associated-with-females-here. Or because they are stronger and nice to have around in lifting patients. While the latter is often true I hardly would rate the quality of a coworker based on their muscle mass. As to the former, I think a little less stereotyping in general could be useful. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses and I hardly think gender is the contributing factor. If you want to be a nurse, go for it. Do your research, shadow, volunteer, and, when your research yields little results, please continue to ask questions no matter how many deter you. (And to those of you thinking it with this very last comment, I am not encouraging anyone here to post their homework questions or anything of the like.)

As for me, farwell to this site for a while.

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Male nurses are just like every other nurse.What is great about male nurses is that they are not as emotional as females and this will make their job easier.Most men are brave and they will handle situations that some females might find scary.Hey, if they wanted to be a nurse good for them, it is a degree. I can only imagine nursing getting better when men become part of nursing field. They can be very helpful when it comes to lifting patients, or any other weights :) etc.

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This site is rapidly becoming my least favorite to visit. Why do so many people here feel the need to so rapidly jump down the throats of the OPs? You assume the worst and instead of attempting to be helpful, you criticize the OP or leave sarcastic or otherwise unkind words. That expression, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all?" That could be used a little bit more around here I think. What I took from this post was that we have a male high school student here who is interested in nursing but has some concerns and, oh my god how terrible, wants some opinions of those actually in the field. I am sorry, but no search on google about nursing is going to give answers as good as those straight from the mouths of those living/breathing nursing day in, day out. If I am wrong about the OP's intentions? Well, I have been wrong before and will be again as will every other person in this world. I still prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt.

To answer the OPs question, in general I feel the same about male nurses as I do female nurses. Male nurses are not such an anomoly anymore. There may be some patients who may look at you strangely when you tell them, "No, I'm not your doctor, I'm your nurse," (because pts always seemed to assume that of even my male classmates in nursing school) and some patients may not wish to be cared for by a man (don't take it personally). But, every patient has there quirks and you learn to deal with them. Personally, I hope more men continue to take an interest in nursing. It is still such a woman-dominated career and the diversity would be nice. Many nurses will say it's nice to have male nurses around because there will be less drama/gossip/insert-trait-typically-associated-with-females-here. Or because they are stronger and nice to have around in lifting patients. While the latter is often true I hardly would rate the quality of a coworker based on their muscle mass. As to the former, I think a little less stereotyping in general could be useful. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses and I hardly think gender is the contributing factor. If you want to be a nurse, go for it. Do your research, shadow, volunteer, and, when your research yields little results, please continue to ask questions no matter how many deter you. (And to those of you thinking it with this very last comment, I am not encouraging anyone here to post their homework questions or anything of the like.)

As for me, farwell to this site for a while.

"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all?"

I strongly agree with this statement. :)

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Specializes in WOC, Hospice, Home Health.

I'm married to one...I like him most of the time. :devil:

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Specializes in Med Surg/MICU/Pediatrics/PCICU.
I'm married to one...I like him most of the time. :devil:

Haha I'm engaged to one so they must not be to bad:D

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Hmm, I am not a nurse, well yet at least. I will be starting my clinicals in February.

Anyways, I have had more ER visits and hospital stays than you can imagine over the past year. Being a frequent flyer I think it would be nice to get an opinion from the other side :)

I have had a few male nurses and have nothing bad to say about any of them. I usually get the same male nurse on the cardiac floor and I love him. He started school to become a doctor and realized he wanted to be a nurse because he rather take care and help people instead of just being the one to dx. There are also a lot of female nurses that I get on a regular basis and love them too. On the flip side I have had my fair share of horrible female nurses, ones that give you additude for asking something or ones assuming that I am on drugs because of my young age and heart conditions and others simply just do not give a poop about their patient.

My conclusion, it's not about the gender but personal qualities. If there were more male nurses there probably would be a handful of the bad ones just like the females.

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I think they look silly in the little white dresses that nurses wear.

I think stereotyping male nurses is archaic as white dresses.

I'm not a nurse yet but when I was a medic I worked/trained/etc with MANY male medics and a few male nurses. They were generally good people and I especially appreciated that I was not singled out or treated differently for being a woman. I imagine male nurses would feel the same way.

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Specializes in Tele, ICU, ED, Nurse Instructor,.
Yes, and you're not really speaking good on yourself.

Yes, you have a right to your opinion. I speak what I know. I dont think its negative its the truth. I dont have anything against male nurses or what their sex preference choose to be. Im not speaking on me anyway. I am speaking about male nurses I have worked with over the years that I have encountered with good or bad conversations. I continue to work with them and treat them like humans. I am honest and a real person. No faking here.

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i dont have any problem with them at all.

for some reason though, where i work we have no male rns. but we do have male respiratory therapists and nursing assistants, and other ancillary staff.

they are great.

the ones who are involved in the drama can be counted on with less than one hand.

they lend a nice balance to the female population and offer sometimes a completely different point of view.

they are more often than not great to work with.

:)

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This site is rapidly becoming my least favorite to visit. Why do so many people here feel the need to so rapidly jump down the throats of the OPs? You assume the worst and instead of attempting to be helpful, you criticize the OP or leave sarcastic or otherwise unkind words. That expression, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all?" That could be used a little bit more around here I think. What I took from this post was that we have a male high school student here who is interested in nursing but has some concerns and, oh my god how terrible, wants some opinions of those actually in the field. I am sorry, but no search on google about nursing is going to give answers as good as those straight from the mouths of those living/breathing nursing day in, day out. If I am wrong about the OP's intentions? Well, I have been wrong before and will be again as will every other person in this world. I still prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt.

As for me, farwell to this site for a while.

I always thought that AllNurses was a site for nurses, healthcare providers and students. The OP is a 16 yo boy that posted many very basic questions about nursing that he should have researched himself, not asked on a site were we can vent, complain, support and learn new things as nurses.

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I always thought that AllNurses was a site for nurses, healthcare providers and students. The OP is a 16 yo boy that posted many very basic questions about nursing that he should have researched himself, not asked on a site were we can vent, complain, support and learn new things as nurses.

The other thing that irritates me is when people come and ask what so-and-so school requires for entrance. What the average starting pay would be for a specific job. Get on the phone and call the school/hospital and ask yourself! OR get on google and figure it out! I wouldn't mind if people just asked what was common in each part of the country just so they can get an understanding of where their school/pay/job stands, but a lot of questions are just from people that are too lazy to actually look up something on google.

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