Any male nurses in here?

Posts: 35 · Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 35

Generally the women dominate in this field and I just want to find out if there are any other male nurses. Male nurses unite Laughing

Posts: 13 · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Posts: 13 Location: Florida

Count me in!

Posts: 2 · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 2 Location: Orlando, FL

Male nurse here...we do need to stick together...in the field 2 years now and enjoying it. Best job/career i ever had.

Posts: 13 · Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 13 Location: Illinois

I have been a nurse for 24 years this summer. It is always good to talk to others in the field. I just went to a nursing association meeting and I was the only male there.

Posts: 2 · Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 2

bowlerrn wrote:

I have been a nurse for 24 years this summer. It is always good to talk to others in the field. I just went to a nursing association meeting and I was the only male there.

I work with a lot of male nurses here in Texas. In fact would rather do so because I can count on them to back me up when shit happens without having to wait for them to get ther panties out of a wod first as with most female nurse.

Posts: 15 · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15

I am one of two male nurses in a small hospital in Florida. I find that I (and the other guy) are the subject of a lot of backbiting and backstabbing from the women, especially when I got a position that 5 women were vying for. Does this happen to anybody else?

Posts: 13 · Joined: 05 Mar 2005 Posts: 13 Location: Illinois

That happened to me several times in my career but the opposite happend just as much. I was passed over for a couple of promotions because I was a male. I chose to leave those employers as they did not value my work ethic over their tradition. If you look at our history we have a more stable workhistory. Cool

Posts: 13 · Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 13

I have been a nurse for 30 years and have found just the opposite when it comes to the way I am treated and promotion offers. When I entered the profession we were less than 2% of the nursing work force. Most of us coming out of the military where we had been Medics or Corpsmen (like me).

The only time I ever met resistance was in the beginning from the "old line" nurses that were truly great in their knowledge and delivery of care but true "battle axes" when it came to dealing with a male who wasnt an orderly or transportation assistant. Hell, I never had a female patient the first 3 years of practice!

Yet, with demonstrated knowledge and proficency..a sincere manner of caring it did not take long to win them over.

As one male patient (diploma nurse from the late 1930s who entered WWII and was sent to the field as a medic when his peers were getting commissions as officers in the Army Nursing Corps ) told me when I introduced myself as his "male nurse" one afternoon....

"It is obvious your a male, lets see how good a nurse you are"

To me, he said it all in one sentance.

Posts: 1 · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 1 Location: Spokane, WA

I just wanted to say hi. HI! Yes, I remember, 24 years ago I was the only
male in my BSN class at Western Washington University. Ya! It was an RN to
BSN course of study and I had just come out of an ADN program. After I got
my BSN I was commissioned into the Navy Nurse Corps.

I have run into some strange situations but I must say I had the best time in the Navy,(88-91 desert storm). I must say that now, at the age of 52 I have
perhaps a few regrets, things I wish I did differently. I am not sure getting
my BSN was the best thing. Instead, getting into a specialty like OR or something would have been better, sooner, rather than doing everything from soup to nuts.

Posts: 3 · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 3 Location: Poland/Cracow

Hi!
I'm from Poland, Cracow.
In my first year in University was studying 10 male and 160 female.
In the last yeay was 5 man and 95 female.
In Poland nursing is a profesion, where working women in 99%.

Posts: 1 · Joined: 22 Oct 2009 Posts: 1 Location: san diego, CA

I have been working as a care giver for many years. I have always found resistance to being hired. I'm 6'8" tall and 325 lbs. and a Black American when people see me coming they get "funny". It normally takes me about 10 minutes to show staff and residents that I know what I am doing and a very caring and compasionate man and an excellent caregiver. Currently in my class of 45 students, there are 12 males. I am ready for the challenges of finding work once I graduate, I am hopeful that attitudes change during my working years.

Posts: 1 · Joined: 22 Oct 2009 Posts: 1

There are lots of male nurses working in this field. Its not that now when only female use to work as a nurse. Today ratio of male nurses is increasing gradually.

Posts: 9 · Joined: 28 Feb 2010 Posts: 9

Going to learn nursing Smile

I am still in college earning credits.
I will become a nurse Wink

Posts: 1 · Joined: 03 Mar 2010 Posts: 1 Location: The Netherlands

Hi all;
I worked as a male nurse for about 19 years in Dutch hospitals. Am now working in medical industrie (3M) as Manager Scientific Affairs & Education Perioperative & I.V. Care (Europe). Due to my job I spent a lot of my time in hospitals around Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Am very much interested in everything concerning patient safety in general and I.V. Care and perioperative care in particular. Some time ago, I have "adopted" a hospital in Malawi together with a friend (also male nurse), I will go there for the first time (also to work as a nurse) in May 2010

Posts: 2 · Joined: 05 Mar 2010 Posts: 2

sure....

Im male nurse and proud of it....
I used to work in ER for 3 years and 1 year in ICU, recenly Im clinical instructor... unfortunatly Im not expert yet but Im trying my best to get the informations by purchasing books and read them, so I need your opinion about the best method to creat "workshops" there is only one problem "I don't find any convenient resourse of workshops Cool

yet to demonistrate some models"..... thanx