Why is nursing considered a sexy career?

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Nurses have always been dipicted as sexy women coming into a patients rooms to give them a sponge bath Or wearing tight-fitting outfits, and high heels. Do you feel nursing is sexy? When you tell others that you are a nurse, do they think its hot? And do you feel a man being a nurse is as sexy as a woman who is a nurse? Are nurses sex icons of the past, present, and future?

Specializes in ICU, Psych.

Hey I'm sexy, you should see my hairy legs!

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I think nurses are considered sexy because:

-nothing much phases them.

-they deal with people up close and personal.

-their focus is entirely the other person.

-they know how the body works.

-they are generally nurturing people, nice people.

What's not sexy about that?

It's a stereotype but I prefer that to the mean old matron or the grumpy short tempered nurse stereotype, anyday.

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Specializes in ICU,PCU,ER, TELE,SNIFF, STEP DOWN PCT.
Unlike many other jobs, nurses(typically young women) would be alone with men(often unclothed). Often this could be compared with a less wholesome service provided.

In my vintage nursing books, there was a lot of controversy about female nurses putting catheters in male patients or doing personal care on men. Often male orderlies were hired to perform these functions.

When Florence Nightingale took her first group of nurses to Crimea, she faced this "sexy" issue. It is no accident that the nurses she chose were older women and nuns.

When I started out as a Nurse Aide years ago, Men were the only ones to perfom "male" catheters and so on, unless we did not have one. Same way with beds and females were to take care of females. Man have times changed for the BETTER!

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Specializes in Home Care, Hospice, OB.
in my vintage nursing books, there was a lot of controversy about female nurses putting catheters in male patients or doing personal care on men. .

best advise i ever got on cath'ing a male (from a crusty old lpn.........)

grab it like you own it!!:D

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best advise i ever got on cath'ing a male (from a crusty old lpn.........)

grab it like you own it!!:D

oh my gosh :D:yeah::rotfl:

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Specializes in Ortho, Neuro, Detox, Tele.

Yep....just like tapping a keg somedays.....

Seriously, I believe that as nurses, we have the choice on what our image is....I provide a caring service and professionally make sure my patients are doing as well as functionally possible when I'm on duty.

Of course, as your bathing the 100 yo women and they say "I wish I could take you home...you're so gentle...." Yep....gives the old ego a boost.

Plus, what was it Right said fred said? "I'm too sexy for my scrubs, too sexy for my scrubs, a rub a dub dub!" (wait, that's not how the song goes? whoops.)

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

My husband has confessed to me that when we were dating he loved to tell his friends he was dating a "busty, redhead nurse". They were all so jealous. :p

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Specializes in Med-Surg.
best advise i ever got on cath'ing a male (from a crusty old lpn.........)

grab it like you own it!!:D

i was told by an older rn--honey, you ain't romancing him. grab it like a chicken by the neck.

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Specializes in neuro, ICU/CCU, tropical medicine.

Considered sexy by whom?

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Specializes in Behavioral Health, Show Biz.

:D

Women (mainly)

who have

professional access

to the male genitalia

WITHOUT

being

hookers or whores.

:smokin: You figure it out.

"Nurse

it hurts

down there.

Could you

rub it

or something?'

:nono: SEXY???

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zcnb c d

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in order to survive and thrive, nurses have to be confident.

and there's nothing sexier than that.:twocents:

leslie

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