Your dad,uncle,cousin,etc. is a what?

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How many of you guys have been told this by your kids,nieces,and nephews. When they're asked about what you do and they say you're a Nurse their friends reply "He's a what?and laugh". What did you say?:cool:

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Specializes in ED, CTSurg, IVTeam, Oncology.

My first duty is to my kids; to allow them to be able to go through life without being laughed at, or to get into a fist fight trying to defend their dad's manly honor. I tell them to say I'm a medic (still). If they can emotionally handle the "your dad's gay..." jokes, then that's fine; go ahead and tell the friends. But giving them a way to avoid the childish confrontations or ridicule is by far my biggest priority and concern.

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I work in sales but am CNA certified and am trying to get into an RN program. If someone laughs that I want to get into an RN program I would laugh back at them. I have patients that love me. I can get hired about anywhere I want as a CNA and will be able to as an RN also. I feel better working as a rurse than I do in a typical business setting, a setting I have worked in for the past 6 years. If someone laughs at me for being a male nurse and wants to match wits I'm cool with that, I'm well educated and feel I can match wits in my area of expertise against about anyone dumb enough to think a guy can't work as a nurse, odds are they aren't difficult to beat in cognitive battle....If they think male nurses are wimps and want to throwdown I'll fight for the right to work as a male nurse too, basically don't back down in your right to serve people if that is what you feel like you were born to do.

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I usually give them my "killer smile". :)

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I usually give them my "killer smile". :)

That's what I tell them to do:yeah::dancgrp:

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I have never been laughed at for saying that I am a nurse. Most people admire me for being a decently paid professional in a community where most a very poor and don't have jobs. Of course I am pretty rough looking myself, when I am not at work, so they usually laugh at me because I am so ugly and weird looking.

Even so I have a saying that goes "I would rather people laugh at me than yell at me." If me being a nurse makes them laugh then I know that I have made them feel good. All the drugs in my cart, even the locked drawer, are useless at making people feel better compared to what laughter can do.

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Specializes in Gonna specialize in OR/surgical nursing!.
I work in sales but am CNA certified and am trying to get into an RN program. If someone laughs that I want to get into an RN program I would laugh back at them. I have patients that love me. I can get hired about anywhere I want as a CNA and will be able to as an RN also. I feel better working as a rurse than I do in a typical business setting, a setting I have worked in for the past 6 years. If someone laughs at me for being a male nurse and wants to match wits I'm cool with that, I'm well educated and feel I can match wits in my area of expertise against about anyone dumb enough to think a guy can't work as a nurse, odds are they aren't difficult to beat in cognitive battle....If they think male nurses are wimps and want to throwdown I'll fight for the right to work as a male nurse too, basically don't back down in your right to serve people if that is what you feel like you were born to do.

I relate to what you wrote. I absolutely feel the same way. I, like many others i'm sure, have felt the stigma of being a male nurse. I find myself educating people on what a modern nurse's role is in society. It's very scary what some people's perception of nurses actually is. I am a strong advocate for more guys entering the nursing field. It's def. empowering hearing that other has the same feeling. It's a "green" thing i suppose...

Cheers!

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Specializes in Peri-Op.

I'm rather large 6' barefoot/290 lbs and have been told I look mean. Maybe that's why I'm not laughed at? Never had anyone laugh at me...

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Specializes in Cardiology, Emergency.

My daughter gets funny looks from the kids at school when she says her daddy is a nurse "only girls are nurses" is the common reply, but then they see her mother and I together *we are engaged to be married* and she is a nurse also....

I guess our little one is lucky both parents are nurses, my friends have been supportive of me being an RN, I actually cop more crap for being a male nurse from female nurses than I do from patients, family or my childs peers.

Scotty

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I tell them to say I'm a medic.

ha, i like that one.

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