Posts Tagged ‘Male Nurse’
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In the last 10 years I have been down-sized, laid off, and company went out of business. At 52 I want to become an RN.
What are the prospects for a new 55 y/o male nurse?
Am I too old??
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I have just finished my first week of a new career as an RN. I will orient on the floor for two weeks, take a week of hospital wide classes and tests, and continue with orienting to the floor - med/surg. I was an excellent student and passed my boards with relative ease. That said, Im blown away by what i just don't know [...]
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So there I was, sitting in my room at college a month ago getting ready to apply for an MBA program because I am graduating with an undergraduate degree in mathematics with a pre-MBA emphasis in December. Something dawned on me though. I really hated what I was doing. The job market is terrible. It feels as though the job hunt [...]
Seasoned with Sage
By Jason R. Thrift, RN, BSN, 3/3/09
I'm sure many of you, like me, have been asked this very same question: "So, what made you go into nursing?"
Now there are a bevy of responses you could come up with. There's the traditional response: "I want to help people!"
Then there is the spiritual response: "I felt called to it!"
I was asked this question at least a billion times during my time in college. [...]
Seasoned with Sage
By Male Nurse Magazine's Jerry Lucas, RN, Guest Blogger, 5/15/08
From my observations, men below the age of 25 are reluctant to enter the field of nursing. The trend remains that more men between the ages 25 and 30, who have been working in other fields, are filling the ranks.
Unfortunately, male nurses entering the field have to deal with the press' portrayal of them - that all male nurses want is a "free show." But, [...]
Seasoned with Sage
Once upon a time—straight out of college—I suffered from Doctoritis. I blame it partly on my youth. But the rest of the blame lay with Dr. Steele.
You see, I was an impressionable young man and Dr. Steele had it all: he was 29, handsome, worked out at the gym and had the muscles to prove it. He also had every woman in the hospital in [...]
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The fight for more respect.
AN INTERVIEW WITH JERRY R. LUCAS, RN AND OWNER AND PUBLISHER OF MALE NURSING MAGAZINE
You’re a nurse. You are educated and work hard but often feel like a second-rate cleaning lady.
You’re not the only one who thinks so. Jerry R. Lucas, RN and owner and publisher of Male Nursing Magazine, believes that it is the responsibility of nurses to make their future better than their past. Lucas is passionately devoted to enticing men and women to the nursing [...]
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How to professionally handle the stereotypes.
BY KATHLEEN WARD
You’re about to begin your first shift as an RN.
Your gut tells you that the moment you walk through those doors in uniform, people will judge you. Why? Because you’re a man.
In training, you may have been exposed to the modern stereotypes of the male nurse. According to Jerry R. Lucas, RN, and owner and publisher of Male Nurse Magazine (http://www.malenursemagazine.com/), “Either you are a [...]
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