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There are some crappy nurses out there and other health professionals also. I really want to change that because nurses are supposed to be caring people not only caring about a paycheck.

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

What's your plan?

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Specializes in Emergency Department.
There are some crappy nurses out there and other health professionals also. I really want to change that because nurses are supposed to be caring people not only caring about a paycheck.

And........?

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.

Oh well...I was hoping I could learn something.

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Specializes in NICU.
There are some crappy nurses out there and other health professionals also. I really want to change that because nurses are supposed to be caring people not only caring about a paycheck.

Yes, I chose to get into a female dominated profession (6% male) and a extremely dominated specialty-NICU (1% male) because of the paycheck and not because I care about my patients.

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Specializes in Home Health (PDN), Camp Nursing.

Cool story bro

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Specializes in Leadership, Psych, HomeCare, Amb. Care.
Yes, I chose to get into a female dominated profession (6% male) and a extremely dominated specialty-NICU (1% male) because of the paycheck and not because I care about my patients.

Men in the profession was 9.6 in 2011, so I'm estimating its at 11-12% now.

And good for the OP who wants to raise the bar. :thumbsup:

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Men in the profession was 9.6 in 2011, so I'm estimating its at 11-12% now.

Nope, not according to the KFF's stats:

"Women continue to outnumber men in nursing nationwide. Approximately nine percent of the professionally active nurse workforce in the U.S. is male, according to March 2015 data from The Kaiser Family Foundation."

Gender ratio of nurses across 5

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Specializes in Leadership, Psych, HomeCare, Amb. Care.

@elkpark, I looked at your link, and it's 10% gender unspecified, so there is a pretty big margin of error.

US Census report

Men's representation among registered nurses and licensed practical and licensedvocational nurses increased. About 2.7 percent of registered nurses were men in 1970compared with 9.6 percent in 2011. Men's representation among licensed practical and licensedvocational nurses grew from 3.9 percent in 1970 to 8.1 percent in 2011

https://www.census.gov/people/io/files/Men_in_Nursing_Occupations.pdf

http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ThePracticeofProfessionalNursing/workforce/Fast-Facts-2014-Nursing-Workforce.pdf

Can we split the difference and estimate 10%?

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Wow OP! Way to introduce a topic.

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There are some crappy nurses out there and other health professionals also. I really want to change that because nurses are supposed to be caring people not only caring about a paycheck.

Oh my goodness. I hadn't realized.

What do you suggest we do? What will you do?

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Specializes in Vascular Access.
There are some crappy nurses out there.

Just one wrong move and crap ends up in the oddest of places.

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