Something to remind us all ....

... just how far society has left to go.

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1) Two nurses are walking down the street. One of the nurses is the mother of the other nurse's son. How are the two nurses's related?


2) A girl and a nurse were shopping for school clothes. The girl is the nurse's daughter but the nurse is not the girl's mother. What relationship is the nurse to the girl?


3) A mother and her son were driving one night and got into a terrible accident. The mother was killed and the son badly injured. The son was rushed to the hospital emergency room where the nurse hurried in only to cry, "Oh no! That's my son!!" Why? What relationship could the ER nurse have to the patient?




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There may be other possibilities, but this is all that I could come up with.

1 - Husband and wife, or a joined lesbian couple.

2 - The girl's father.

3 - The nurse was the son's father, or possibly the female spouse who adopted the child of a lesbian mother.

I came up with these examples based on an email that was going around a few years back. I reposted this here in the Male Nurses forum in order to stimulate some conversation and really show us all just how far we still have to go to rid ourselves of gender and traditional family bias patterns in our thoughts. There are lots of different ways to live our lives.

I guess I have a different perspective on how far males have been accepted in the nursing profession. For one, my wife is a nurse. Second, males comprise about 35% of the nurses in the Army Nurse Corps. The Army Nurse Corps was establised in 1901, yet males were not allowed commission in the USAR Nurse Corps until 1955, and not until 1966 in the Regular Army Nurse Corps.

As a civilian RN, I worked in Telemetry, OR, and ICU, which a lot of males seemed to gravitate to in the nursing profession. My wife worked in the ED for four years and a lot of her nursing peers were male nurses.

I do agree the media plays a part in gender-bias of nursing. Movies such as Meet The Parents, and seldom seen positive male nursing roles on television dramas are not helping the pursuit of gender-equality in nursing. Yet, I'd think the year 2007 is much better for male nurses than 15-20 years past.

MagRedC5 wrote:I guess I have a different perspective on how far males have been accepted in the nursing profession. For one, my wife is a nurse. Second, males comprise about 35% of the nurses in the Army Nurse Corps. The Army Nurse Corps was establised in 1901, yet males were not allowed commission in the USAR Nurse Corps until 1955, and not until 1966 in the Regular Army Nurse Corps.

As a civilian RN, I worked in Telemetry, OR, and ICU, which a lot of males seemed to gravitate to in the nursing profession. My wife worked in the ED for four years and a lot of her nursing peers were male nurses.

I do agree the media plays a part in gender-bias of nursing. Movies such as Meet The Parents, and seldom seen positive male nursing roles on television dramas are not helping the pursuit of gender-equality in nursing. Yet, I'd think the year 2007 is much better for male nurses than 15-20 years past.

I mentioned in another post that in the civilian sector when someone uses the term nurse it is usually assumed to be referring to a female unless it is preceded by the word male. Therefore a "nurse" is a female, and a "male nurse" is male. I want to see society reach the point where a nurse is never assumed to be either male or female. It may be already like that in the military.

I believe that are correct in that you really do have a different perspective than nurses in the civilian sector. In civilian life only about 5-6% of nurses are men, depending on where you pull the statistics from. This statistic has increased only slightly in the last 15-20 years. If we could go further to educate the public about what modern nursing is all about then we would see tremendous improvements in nursing across the board.

So which answers did you choose? The straight fathers or the gay mothers? Or both, or neither? Are you so enlightened that it took you no time at all to answer correctly? If so I truly applaud you. It would give me hope if that were the case. Let me know. But I'll tell you a secret, and this says a lot about how far we have yet to go, ... I had a hard time answering and I wrote the damn questions! :39: