Who HATES the term MURSE?

[LuxCalidaNP]

Just checking in with all the hombres...

Most guys I know are ambivilent to the term, but is there anyone else who just DETESTS being called a murse?

B in VA

[Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN]

I truly dislike the term "murse".

We are nurses. Registered Nurses.

steph

[sssrn]

Love the idea of a "Murse day." Only had one shift where the entire nursing staff was male and I warned the oncoming shift that we spent the night raising the toilet seats.

[Flames9_RN, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

I was thinking of getting a "Murse" car license plate,lol

[flightnurse2b, LPN]

we have a sticky on our fridge since JB's friends like to give him lip about being a nurse. it was in a nursing calendar we got a couple years ago and he liked it so he kept it.

it says:

"don't call me a murse. it's nurse with a member, please."

[braddah]

HAHAHAHAHA murse!

Hey brotha!!

Yeah i heard of murses! but here in our school we refer them to 'the world without nurses- your left with murses i.e. medical doctors that have to be nurses as well'

as for sister! lol i been using sister to girls lately but I always have its not until i came into nursing it was used more often...which is wierd..but i dunno it probably had something to do with past nurses or something!

Male nurses = great CPR! lol

I wish I had a mate that knew martial arts now...imma bit of a wus

[Vinterdag]

Well I am just starting down on this road.

I don't think it will bother me too much telling people

that I am a male nurse. I am coming from a field that

is 99% male dominated

[PacoUSA, BSN, RN]

I have seen that term used (on a reality show no less) to refer to a "male purse", a handbag similar to a small backpack or that metrosexual men use to carry around their toiletries and stuff. I prefer nurse, 'nuff said. Imagine the uproar women physicians would have if we walked around calling them "foctors" ... hmph!

[exit96]

First time hearing it...already HATE IT!!

[StNeotser, ASN, RN]

I hate it.

[arelle68]

"Murse" is really quite a lovely term, if you just consider the possibilites. Allow me to illucidate you:

E-Murse: It's how you get into baptised into the Baptist Church.

Sub-Murse-d: Now your deep in thought.

Murse-a-dees: Even cooler than a Volvo.

Hey! You could add an "a" to the end, and "presto!" you think about something that reminds you to wash your hands!

And you thought a murse was a murse!

[arelle68]

Have murse-y!!! Oh, you KNEW that was coming, didn't cha!?

[cop2bnurse41]

Who gives a flying #@$#!!! We are what we are.