Are male nurses forced to turn in their man cards?

you're a chauvinist

fathers a male nurse. more and more common nowadays.

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

with that kind of money, he or anyone else shouldnt care if one poster thinks hes turning in his mancard.

plus the amount of schooling / money spent on tuition is so much less than to become a doctor...and its not like you get stiff-armed in terms of salary either.

I love male nurses. I even love when my boy toy dresses up like slutty nurse for Halloween. I also love male hairdressers.

murse wrote:

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

I guess that 130-150k is not enough for me to hand in my mancard.

It's incredibly meaningful work. The pay is good. It's in high demand. He's gonna be surrounded by girls that are gonna think he's a great guy for becoming a nurse. Where's the problem? Where's he going to school?

nike for rent wrote:

I guess that 130-150k is not enough for me to hand in my mancard.

Actually you must have a mancard before you can hand one in. You don't qualify.

Penn State.

when you need care from a male nurse, please tell him the way you feel about this subject, or turn in your mancard

Yeah these days the shift in responsibility means RNs/NPs do a lot of the cool procedures MDs used to do while the MDs get to do the paperwork.

Not many Start Up opportunities in Nursing is there ?

I greatly appreciate male nurses. However, I understand the OP. This is a group that knows more about fashion than football.

but his brother may not be like that. So, so what if the gays have infiltrated the field. A straight guy is gonna do just as well, if not better! ;)

Lol. I know this guy who has three kids and the biggest wimp you will ever find. His wife cheats on him all the freakin time and he knows it. She comes home whenever she feels like it and tells him it is none of his business where she has been. He caught her with anothee guy. He ran home to mommy. She told him to pick her or his mommy. He went back to more abuse and humiliation.

He caught her kissing a friend then heard a sexual voice mail he left her. He asked her if she was having sex with him, and she told him she didn't have to tell him.

I have seen her ridicule him in front of people. Smack him in the head with a book and call him stupid. Totally disrespects him, and he just takes it.

Dude talks and acts gay as hell, too. Like most male nurses.

So, yes, it appears burning your male card is a requirement to getting your degree.

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.

I went the Doc route but I have worked with a few male nurses. I think if you want to help people nursing is just fine...boring but fine. You will always have a job in the US due to the unhealthy population! BUT you have to be ok with working with people who generally don't care about what you're doing for them...fix it (my body) so I can go right back to abusing it.

I, however, have always been curious about Ph.Ds. in nursing....any of you out there?

My fiance is a CRNA, and she is making about $170,000 right out of school. Admittedly, her program was tough as hell and for 28 months, she was miserable. But now, she works 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., five days a week. When she walks out the door of the hospital, her day is over. Done and done. Oh yeah...five weeks vacation per year too.

Meanwhile, I make slightly more than her and bust my ass non-stop. Clients call me morning, day and night. Weekends are always tied up catching up on paperwork or preparing for the week ahead. I can take as many days off as I want, but if I'm not working, I'm not billing clients, which means that I'm not generating revenue.

I'd kill for a job like hers, and I could give a rat's ass if it's historically been a female profession. Anyone who lets gender stereotypes dictate their career choice is a moron.

Do you train with women as well? You talk like it.

Right on CH. It appears the OP has gender issues of his own or he/she wouldn't be so emotionally involved in this issue. Or I should say non-issue.

As a matter of fact, I do run with women. And I guaran-f***in-tee you that the women I run with on occasion would smoke the shit out of you at any distance.

If you don't believe me, I live in Rochester, Michigan. You can do the google search and figure out what women I'm talking about.

Is study hall over yet? You need to get back to class.