What are your views on male nurses

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So I'm only recently new to nursing, but as a male nurse I do get asked quite a bit why I went into nursing.

Specializes in critical care.
Have you ever worked with mostly men? They can be just as gossipy, jealous and petty. Been there, done that.

OMG, YES.

In property management, it was boringly stereotypical: women in the office or cleaning, men doing maintenance, groundskeeping, and painting. I oversaw a staff of 2 women, and 5 men. Those men were enough to make me swear off management for a good long time!

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Specializes in Pediatrics Retired.
OMG, YES.

In property management, it was boringly stereotypical: women in the office or cleaning, men doing maintenance, groundskeeping, and painting. I oversaw a staff of 2 women, and 5 men. Those men were enough to make me swear off management for a good long time!

I agree...Way back in the industrial construction days of yore I was a project manager on a job with 65 men. Well, males - not all of them were men. I definitely prefer working with the girls.:yes:

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I agree...Way back in the industrial construction days of yore I was a project manager on a job with 65 men. Well, males - not all of them were men. I definitely prefer working with the girls.:yes:

Yes. But you're YOU. :blink:

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when i tell friends i want to be a nurse they ask me if i'm going to be a male nurse i just say yes i have never described myself as wanting to be a male nurse So give us a break i believe the only reason an individual would describe himself as a male nurse HERE is because

you cant see that we are male or not ***

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Specializes in BSN, RN-BC, NREMT, EMT-P, TCRN.

I'm looking forward to the bizarre group sex with the female nurses.

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Specializes in Emergency and Neonate.

to be honest, i joined nursing because of large amount of women in the class. Big mistake. Expectation was totally different from reality.

I stayed being a nurse because I want to save lives.

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Specializes in BSN, RN-BC, NREMT, EMT-P, TCRN.
Male nurses are Great!!! I was just telling my mom yesterday that the men I have worked with are so much easier to get along with than most female nurses. They have been No BS Drama Mongers. Less drama means increase in patient safety. Also men are more helpful. They usually don't play mind games like women. You can tell the people who ask you the truth. You will always have a job in healthcare. :)

Men don't usually get b*tchy. Just saying.

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Specializes in Emergency, LTC.

I thoroughly enjoy working with my male co-horts. Both nurses and techs. They just seem way more lax and easier to talk to but that's just me.

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When I was a RN working in inner city trauma ICU unit, I loved working with male nurses. Male nurses are a great advantage to hospitals and hiring agencies and I have a piece of mind knowing that someone strong was their working on the floor with me at night especially with all the crazies and the pts families. Male nurses provide a balance, strength, perspective, additional security, and are more reliable not taking maternity leave every other year (figure of speech). On one occasion a males nurses working the room next to me helped me from a demented patient that had a psychotic episode and attacked me. I'm small just breaking a hundred pounds, male nurses are great.

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I like the majority of the male nurses I work with. And some I do not like. Same as women nurses. Some I like. Some I don't :)

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical, Telemetry/ICU Stepdown.

Male nurse here, since 2008. I don't feel comfortable in the workplace dominated by women. Always felt like an outsider, always felt awkward, never really felt accepted. There is a reason why it's a female-domination profession. Florence Nightingale said absolutely no men in the profession and I think she was right and I think ultimately reality proved her right 150 years later.

I've met quite a few men in the profession but the ones dedicated to bedside work are relatively few. A majority steer clear of bedside nursing as soon as they can, either getting into management or something involving technology like inserting PICC lines full time or running dialysis machines. Funny how quickly they got into paperwork or anything that involves not performing intimate tasks with the sick.

If one enters the profession with the goal of getting job security or making x amount of money then yeah, you can continue milking the milk cow indefinitely but you won't be happy. If you feel awkward at work like you don't belong then you probably don't belong, then it's not a career, it's just a job.

Do I have regrets about getting into nursing? Absolutely not. Life is about change. My personality is not constant but it changes because our views, goals, desires change. Back in 2004 I wanted to try nursing, in 2016 I want to try something completely different. It's normal. It's life.

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Men don't usually get b*tchy. Just saying.

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Really? Read what you just posted again.

Just saying.

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