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 Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

Well, maybe I contribute to the meaning of sexy nurse (smile)...but from the insides, some days, I don't feel like I am...

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Specializes in NICU.
I once went on a date with a guy who said he found the fact that I was a nurse really sexy because he loved that I'd have "the capacity to take care of him". That was our last date.

And let me say, when I come home stumbling tired, smelling like breast milk and ampicillin and IntraLipids, with my makeup smudged and ponytail frazzled, in wrinkled scrubs with some unidentified stain on the left leg (always the left!) even my normally nuclear sex appeal suffers a bit. :D

:chuckle:chuckle:chuckle

Hahaha...oh-ahem...sorry i mean I cannot relate to that at all...:wink2:

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Ya know, I'd like to suggest to Brian (the allnurses founder) that there needs to be a button next to the little "ThankYou" button down there....

It should be "LMAO".....

As in....received 42 LMAO in 1 post

Waddaya think?

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then everyone is gonna try to be a comedian

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I figure it would save time and still let me give props when I'm doing a quick read through.

Pretty much everyone here is hilarious anyway :lol2:.

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This thread has cracked me up. haha.

:yeah:

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I think it boils down to two words: Sponge bath.

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Specializes in Operating Room.

I don't really know. We deal with puke, blood, mucus and poo and none of those things are sexy, unless you're in to the kinky stuff.

:rolleyes:

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Specializes in Operating Room.
I was told by an older RN--Honey, you ain't romancing him. Grab it like a chicken by the neck.

Ok, this one made me laugh so hard, I cried!:D:yeah:

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.
when i come home "smelling like hospital" (as my wife describes it)... she certainly doesn't find it sexy... lol

my ex-boyfriend would refuse to come near me when i came over to his place after work, still wearing my scrubs. i worked in ambulatory surgery...not really that gross at all, but i digress...

last night i went out with a bunch of fellow nurses, and a good number of the 7a-7p'rs came straight from work wearing their scrubs. the dudes were tripping over their tongues. i don't get it. i'd like to say it's because, as health care professionals, we are educated, indepedent, smart, healthy, polite, caring, dedicated individuals, but somehow i think "handmaiden" may play more into it.

jess

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Specializes in MPCU.

Do you think that allpolice.com and allfirefighters.com web sites have a similar thread?

It could be the uniform. The "fantasy/sexy" nurse is not wearing scrubs.

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Specializes in Ortho, Neuro, Detox, Tele.

well, maybe when I'm in em.

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