Are male nurses forced to turn in their man cards?

My father was recently in the hospital for open heart surgery and while he was in recovery in the ICU a couple of the nurses were men.

They were both great at their jobs, I have no idea what their personal lives are like and don't care, and I and my family were all grateful for the good work they did. As far as I'm concerned, these guys sure as hell don't have to turn in their "man cards" for doing a fine job in an important and valuable profession.

Good for OP's brother. He's picked a good and honorable line of work.

I agree that it is a great profession, but it doesn't sound like he chose it. It sounds like it chose him because he couldn't handle med school.

I hate when people have a fall back profession and then claim that is what they wanted all along. This is the category that most teachers fall into.

Anyone who has been in the hospital or had a loved one in the hospital knows how f***ing awesome nurses can be. They can also be total Nurse Ratcheds, but whatever.

Any guy who talks about "man cards," "being an alpha" and other stupid shit like that is just a giant hair-gelled douchbag.

It is always losers with no friends who talk like that... sad thing is that they think they are cool. One day they wake up in a cheap suit, working mid-level management, avoiding their ugly wife and wonder what went wrong...

"I used to be such a f***ing player..."

Total Hipster wrote:

Anyone who has been in the hospital or had a loved one in the hospital knows how f***ing awesome nurses can be. They can also be total Nurse Ratcheds, but whatever.

Any guy who talks about "man cards," "being an alpha" and other stupid shit like that is just a giant hair-gelled douchbag.

It is always losers with no friends who talk like that... sad thing is that they think they are cool. One day they wake up in a cheap suit, working mid-level management, avoiding their ugly wife and wonder what went wrong...

"I used to be such a f***ing player..."

WELL PUT

agreed. you nailed it.

i'm sure there are great reasons for being a male's nurse, but

do you honestly think a male nurse is something that any woman would want? No woman is going to respect a male nurse.

Have fun saving lives and being single.

reijozouid wrote:

i'm sure there are great reasons for being a male's nurse, but

do you honestly think a male nurse is something that any woman would want? No woman is going to respect a male nurse.

Have fun saving lives and being single.

Is this a serious post? I mean... it is funny and good for a troll, but if you seriously believe this, I feel sorry for you.

Lets flip this around:

Any woman that would not date a man becasue he is a nurse is probably not a woman said nurse would want to date.

Have fun getting genital warts from skanky whores at the club.

reijozouid wrote:

i'm sure there are great reasons for being a male's nurse, but

do you honestly think a male nurse is something that any woman would want? No woman is going to respect a male nurse.

Have fun saving lives and being single.

No, reason you should be single, in fact you will get rid of the idiots

Would a real man worry about what people think. Watch Gregory Peck in The Big Country

A real man does what is right not what other people think he should do

All nurses do a great job. One which is of a lot more real value than the jobs most of us do

murse wrote:

i dont see it as womens work...also he gets paid roughly 130-150k a year...so you make the call

My wife is a nurse and doesn't make anything near that, and she's been doing it for 10 years. What field is your father in?

If you think someone decides to be nurse because they can't be a doctor, then you haven't talked to many nurses or doctors. The work nurses and docs do is complimentary but is very different. They have overlapping but different knowledge bases. It's obviously true the medical school is much more difficult to gain acceptance to than nursing school, so that could certainly factor into a person's decision. However, to imply that all nurses (or adding to the insult that only male nurses) only became nurses because they couldn't be a doctor demonstrates your lack of understanding.

My girlfriend is a nurse and first year out of college she made $85k. We live in the boonies so she has more money than she can spend.

Someone who is in a specialized field of nursing with an advanced degree can make $115k+.

Also, consider traveling nurses or per diem nurses can make incredible salaries.

Nurse911 wrote:

Wow. Times have changed with salaries unless you're talking about a nurse with an advance degree or speciality area (MSN, NP, CNA), otherwise regular floor nurses make that much?

I think there is nothing wrong with male nurses in the field, I find they are more helpful and usually get the work done. However, the ones who don't turn in their mancards are the ones usually working in the ER, OR, CC, Tele, etc. This is just an observation.

They are taking about a nurse practioner or nurse anethesticist (sp?). A floor nurse makes 40-70k/year.

There's a misconception or rather many on this board about this subject.

One does not just do a quick nursing program and become an anesthetist The nurse anesthetist programs are competitive and usually require some years of heavy work experience in something like intensive care before you can even apply for training.

The figure of $170,000 right out of the program sounds wild since that is a figure many residency trained anesthesiologists and other sub-specialty docs would not sniff at.

7/10

murse wrote:

i dont see it as womens work...also he gets paid roughly 130-150k a year

That's a broad salary range. I think you're full of it.

murse wrote:

i dont see it as womens work...also he gets paid roughly 130-150k a year...so you make the call

I wonder if B.S. like this has to do with the astronomical growth in health care costs?

Do you still run Christain?

yup, definitely turned in my man-card when I decided to apply to an accelerated 3 year RN to MSN to Nurse Practitioner program at an east coast ivy league school. I had to forfeit my division III all-american 1500 meter certificate on the way in, as well as my 2:38 marathon PR from way back in the day. Same thing for the classmate of mine who was recruited to play linebacker for Arizona State (seriously). He had to give up his man-card. But he's in a nurse practitioner residency at Harvard to become a dermatology specialist so it's worth losing the man-card. And I work as a primary care provider, great hours, plenty of time to train in the evenings, decent social life, good vacation package and so nice overseas travel every four months. I guess I miss my man-card. But these are the compromises you make in life....

As opposed to one of those famous west coast Ivy League schools? As for the NP "residencies"....what a f***ing joke.