Reply With QuoteI think they're in the minority. Most nurses don't care if you're a guy, girl, straight, gay, etc. They want to know if you can do the work and if you'll carry your weight on the floors.
Bout 5% of nurses are guys, we're not going anywhere:
Sept. 6, 2002, Philadelphia, Is There A Male Nurse In The House?:"(AP) Recent graduates of the nation's nursing schools are leaving the profession more quickly than their predecessors, with male nurses bolting at almost twice the rate of their female counterparts, according to a new study. About 7.5 percent of new male nurses left the profession within four years of graduating from nursing school, compared to 4.1 percent of new female nurses, according to the study by a University of Pennsylvania researcher. It was reported Thursday in the journal Health Affairs."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/...in521057.shtml
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MedZilla Asks: "Why Are There So Few Male Nurses?" June 6, 2002:"Author and Pulitzer Prize winner Susan Faludi wrote in her book Stiffed about men being at the mercy of cultural forces that disfigure their lives and destroy their happiness. Enter men in nursing, where men are but a small fraction-5.7% according to the latest statistics-of a female-run workforce, and little seems to be changing. "Men are not encouraged to go into nursing, and, for the most part, the male population is overlooked by the profession," says Frank Heasley, PhD, president and CEO, MedZilla, a leading Internet recruitment and professional community that targets jobseekers and HR Professionals in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and science."
http://www.medzilla.com/press61102.html
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Medzilla Asks: Is Affirmative Action Required in the Nursing field? June 25, 2002:"Luther Christman, PhD, RN, had already begun his fight for diversity in nursing when he was dean of nursing at Vanderbilt University in the 1950s and '60s. The first male dean in a United States nursing school, Dr. Christman employed black women as faculty at Vanderbilt for the first time. He also was recruiting men into nursing. "I made arrangements with the Pentagon to refer all the names to me of people being discharged in the southern area of the country who had been medical corps men for their four years in the armed forces. I thought they'd be a good group to recruit from because they're already oriented toward care," he says."
http://www.medzilla.com/press62502.html
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Men In Nursing, Minoritynurse.com:"However, that was almost 40 years ago, some may argue. Certainly the bias and prejudices toward men in nursing that existed at that time no longer exist. Right? Wrong, according to Gene Tranbarger, Ed.D., R.N., CNAA, associate professor of nursing at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. "Open discrimination against men is fast disappearing from schools of nursing but remains imbedded in the school fabric," he observes. "The faculty still relies on feminine pronouns when discussing nurses. Male nurses who wish to work in obstetrics/gynecology still face obstacles and often have to resort to legal remedies."
http://www.minoritynurse.com/feature...08-30-00c.html
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A few good men, Nurseweek:"About 6 percent of nurses today are male. But while the discriminatory practices against men nursing might be easing, male nurses continue to tell stories about unfair treatment."
http://www.nurseweek.com/news/features/01-05/men.html
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Men in American Nursing History:"The purpose of these pages is to provide an overview of the history of men in nursing with an emphasis on men in the Americas. The word "nurse" was not used until the thirteenth century. It originated from the Latin term to nurture. Translations of non-English works prior to the early 1900's typically used the term "nurse" when referring to male health care providers. More recent translations use the term "attendant," because it was thought that only females could be "nurses." These pages will use the term "nurse"."
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/6011/
Workplace Violence, Nursingdiscussions.com:"In a unit I work in, a Doctor had attacked a male nurse. The doctor had arrived to the unit angry and "running his mouth" how nobody knows what they are doing. When actuary a family dr. sent a patient by car to the hospital with chest pain. The patient was having a MI. The doctor in this case is a cardiologist who was consulted. Any ways, a nurse walked up to the dr and said, " I guess this ones going to the cath lab. All at once the dr jumped from the chair, grabbed the nurse by the throat choking him. This action was in front of the patient and many visitors."
http://nursinghumor.com/nurse_forum/.../o/all/fpart/1
Andrew Lopez, RN
http://www.4nursing.com
