Did we mention that its a 3 day work week?
At least out here it is.
To be fair, most of the guy cheerleads do NOT cheer nor do they use pom-poms, they only get involved when a big lift is necessary or to do some crazy gymnastics-like tumbling.
I was also thinking of Nursing but I think I have decided against it. I have decided to become a Respiratory Therapist I think…
It’s a 2 year degree, it gets me in the medical field and from there I can decide if it’s for me or not. Or if I want to pursue a different field in medicine.
So, good luck to ya on whatever you decide. If you want to become a male nurse, just freakin’ do it man. And if you are big enough, no one is going to give you shit no matter what your profession is! haha
[quote]diesel25 wrote:
WhiteFlash wrote:
I start my 2 year associates mursing degree in the fall. Great schedule,great money, responsibilty, respect…What’s not to like? If anyone gives you shit tell 'em in a few years you’ll double their income.
I’m in Civil Engineering, and I’m already becoming traumatized by the sausage fest going on. Chicks are outnumbered 1 to 30; an acceptably hot chick is outnumbered 1 to 5. My odds of being around a hot female coworker is 1 in 150.
I tell YOU what. Somebody makes a quip about your job, you tell them how many bunnies you spend 8 hours of your day with every day.[/quote]
Dude, the Doctors bang the nurses, plus the nurses would thing you were gay for being a nurse anyway
enough gay bashing: it does not make ANY economic sense, Docs can make like 300K a year (certain specialities) and nurses make err…uhh… oh thats right, nothing to write home about
This totally reminds me of that scene from “Meet the Parents.”
[quote]Irish Muscle wrote:
OP:
You already know that this is a career dominated by women.
Fair enough it doesn’t make you gay if you are a male nurse but it does mean you have a girly job.
I said it, a girly job.
Some people here think that “just because i earn more than you, im better”
thats a shit attitude. Does that mean that these guys would suck gay gays off for “double” their income?
And when some guy says, " hey man, your gay, you suck gay guys off for a living"
what would be a good reply to this?..“yeh, but im making double your salary…”
Total shit, and just because you make double of some one else’s salary doesn’t mean jack shit.
the only thing that matters is that you are happy with your job. If you genuinly like it then fuckin do it. But be prepared to take jokes from other guys for the rest of your life.
because at the end of the day, its a female profession.
full of females, not males.
Why don’t you ask rrjc all about it? I hear hes training to be a nurse.
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A can of worms has been opened.
[quote]Irish Muscle wrote:
chrisrodx wrote:
boatguy wrote:
I am strongly considering going to nursing school after I retire from the Nav. Not for the female factor(happily married), but because it is a pretty good living and I wouldn’t have to go back to school for 8 years at the age of 40 to do it.
I plan on having a bachelor’s by then, and several schools I have looked at have BS to BSN programs, for non-medical degree holders to transfer in and not have to start over(2 year program, IIRC). Always better to start out toward the top, right? Especially when my GI Bill will cover most or all of it.
As for the negative or ‘gay’ connotation, who cares? Does it really bother you that someone might think you are homo due to your job? You’re saving lives, not designing window treatments! It’s kind of like the male college cheerleader thing, all the football players give them shit, but look at how much hot ass they pull.
lol on the male cheerleaders, that is a good point.
It takes a special kind of queer imo to be a male cheerleader. The kind of guy that likes to hop around with pom poms and act female without any feelings of shame.
You would have to be a total pussy to be a male cheerleader. Its one of those things that men just SHOULDNT do. I dont care how many chicks they pull, i would never shame myself just to pull chicks.
To be able to cheer with a gay voice and perform a girly routine infront of hundreds of thousands of people would take balls, if you were only joking then it would be hilarious. If you were made do it because you lost a dare, then thats hialrious, but if you opt for cheerleading because you wanted to well then your a fagot.
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And possibly another.
Nurses make good money, I don’t know any other field where you start at 50-60k a year with just a 2 year degree. Y’all better do something in the medical field,cause it is the only field that will not be outsourced to cheap labor in the next few years. Everything else will except the service jobs like retail and fast food.
[quote]Irish Muscle wrote:
It takes a special kind of queer imo to be a male cheerleader. The kind of guy that likes to hop around with pom poms and act female without any feelings of shame.
You would have to be a total pussy to be a male cheerleader. Its one of those things that men just SHOULDNT do. I dont care how many chicks they pull, i would never shame myself just to pull chicks.
To be able to cheer with a gay voice and perform a girly routine infront of hundreds of thousands of people would take balls, if you were only joking then it would be hilarious. If you were made do it because you lost a dare, then thats hialrious, but if you opt for cheerleading because you wanted to well then your a fagot.
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(Obligatory pic of Dubya, sucking a giant dick)
[quote]Rocky101 wrote:
Nurses make good money, I don’t know any other field where you start at 50-60k a year with just a 2 year degree. Y’all better do something in the medical field,cause it is the only field that will not be outsourced to cheap labor in the next few years. Everything else will except the service jobs like retail and fast food.[/quote]
if you have to worry about your job being outsourced your not saying to much about yourself or your job
[quote]blok wrote:
if you have to worry about your job being outsourced your not saying to much about yourself or your job[/quote]
What is it that you do that at least part of your job isn’t getting outsourced? That is the most ignorant statement I have seen on T-Nation and I have been here since the beginning. First, it is ‘you’re and too’. Next, what about all the engineering jobs from computer to electrical to petrochemical that have been moved to India where they are paid 30 bucks a day. Or the manufacturing jobs that have gone to third world countries. I can not think of one single profession that has not been outsourced, except for nursing. Even in nursing they are bringing in Philipino nurses that will work for less. So get off your fucking high and mighty horse and realize that many good, hardworking American’s jobs have been outsourced or may be in the near future.
Sorry Focker, the card only comes in one gender.
[quote]blok wrote:
Rocky101 wrote:
Nurses make good money, I don’t know any other field where you start at 50-60k a year with just a 2 year degree. Y’all better do something in the medical field,cause it is the only field that will not be outsourced to cheap labor in the next few years. Everything else will except the service jobs like retail and fast food.
if you have to worry about your job being outsourced your not saying to much about yourself or your job[/quote]
Wow. You must be in at least the 10th grade.
Sorry Focker, the card only comes in one gender.
[quote]Dandalex wrote:
I must say I like male nurses in the nursing station.
Totally biased and purely anecdotal evidence from what I see from the POV of a med student.
-Disproportionate amount of male nurses reaching higher levels in the nursing hiearchy (Charge Nurse, Head Nurse, Mgmt position nurse)
-Never had a ‘‘Here its prescribed this way’’ speech from a male nurse with the implication that you are wrong and that she is right even if she’s never seen the patient nor does she know the case.
-I have yet to be woken up by Male nurse at 3am to reorder some iron tabs. Or more awesome…‘‘You know Misses So and So in 405, she’s complaining of pain at her incision site, what do you want to do?..Does she have pain meds prescribed…Ah, let me check, yes she has Empracet every 4 hours…Ok so give her her pain meds then.’’
-They don’t page me every half hour to check when I’ll bring said iron prescription.
-Also, I tend to have less problems brought up to me without a backstory such as ‘‘OMG, patient’s BP is 87/55!!!’’ with the pertinent backstory being ‘‘What was it before…Oh, I don’t know…Could you check?..Ot it was 90/60 all last week, looks like her baseline…Ok thank, you that’s fine.’’
Nurses can be awesome and can be a lifesaver but they can also bring you hell on earth either to piss you off cause you’ve been a jack ass or through sheer incompetence.
Luckily I’ve never had the first one, but I’m dealing with the second one quite frequently recently.
The best for med students is to work with competent nurses which we tend to find in places like the ER, NICU, ICU, Heme-Onc wards and more specialized (they help you get up to speed and solve most of the little problems before they become big).
So for some guy interested in becoming a Male nurse, I would strongly encourage it. It think you can have great career opportunity especially as Bacchelor’s level nurse.
A motivated/driven nurse that goes outside the little world of the nursing station and asks med students/residents/staff why such and such is prescribed this way versus that way for example is able to gain not only experience but experience with understanding which eventually makes a world of difference in clinical judgement and eventual carreer opportunity.
Anyway good luck to you in your career choice.
AlexH…The pager’s bitch
And yes, there a gay nurses…or lets just say the level of suspicion is higher for the iffy ones.[/quote]
i have to concur with most of this post. i am a male nurse, of 12 years. i hold national certifications in trauma, advanced cardiac care, mobile intensive care, and advanced pediatric life support. i can manage/run a dialysis machine, an intra aortic balloon pump, a left ventricular assist device, and manage a patient on a heart lung bypass machine.
i guess what i am saying is that in the specialty feilds like ER, NICU, ICU etc, the stereotypical female nurse who walks around with the white hat white stockings and fluffs your pillow and spoon feeds you your soup is pretty much a thing of the past.
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these days due to the state of medical insurance in this country, only the sickest of the sick stay in hospitals, and it has become a very technical and demanding field.
however, i agree with what this poster said that more men are needed. women often(not always) will focus in on minutia and not see the big picture. they will bug an on call doc all night long about “iron-pills” like he said, but not see their other patient who has been in respiratory distress and tachycardic all night.
most “cool” female nurses i work with and pretty much ALL doctors(male or female) would rather work with a majority male crew than female.
the pay is very good, i can make over$100/hour on double time weekend night shifts that are ALWAYS available in the bay area.
that being said, their is a reason we can make such money, it is a tough, shitty job where you have to deal with shitty people and fellow employees all the time. you are often expected to be perfect in a very imperfect(fuck that, totally fucked up) medical and social system. you will only get notice when something goes wrong, and its not like you are selling insurance, or designing video games, you fuck off on the job here and make a mistake, a human being can be seriously harmed or die.
as an icu nurse, LITERALLY, if i misplaced a decimal point when calculating a vaso-active drip running into a patient, i could have killed them in minutes. REALLY.
if you can take a ton of social dysfunction dumped into your laps, long, hard stressful work days, and lots of responsibility, you can make good money and have lots of job security.
good luck.
i now work in emergency department, and love it. i especially love t
[quote]blok wrote:
Rocky101 wrote:
Nurses make good money, I don’t know any other field where you start at 50-60k a year with just a 2 year degree. Y’all better do something in the medical field,cause it is the only field that will not be outsourced to cheap labor in the next few years. Everything else will except the service jobs like retail and fast food.
if you have to worry about your job being outsourced your not saying to much about yourself or your job[/quote]
Well my job right now is stay at home dad. I ignorantly got a degree in computers and my degree is pretty much worthless now. I love fixing and designing things, but it would be stupid of me to get any kind of engineering degree with it all outsourced. It kinda sucks that everything I like to do I can’t make any money doing.
[quote]duece wrote:
blok wrote:
if you have to worry about your job being outsourced your not saying to much about yourself or your job
What is it that you do that at least part of your job isn’t getting outsourced? That is the most ignorant statement I have seen on T-Nation and I have been here since the beginning. .[/quote]
Gotta disagree with you there, think irish lack of muscle takes the cake for that one but the one you are replying comes in a very close second.
I’m a female nurse and I’d MUCH rather work with male nurses, sad to say. Too many women in one place make for a nasty work environment and the men are usually WAY more fun whether gay or straight (and almost every male nurse I know is straight).
FWIW, I’ve worked in an open heart ICU, an AIDS unit and now work in an outpatient urgent care and I’ve never bothered the docs with small stuff -in my clinic we work on protocols, so we can order our own labs, x-rays, ekg’s etc within reason.
Most of the nurses where I work make 80K+, not too bad with a 2-year degree. If you’re a workaholic, you can pull in six figures easily.
So I say go for it. 
[quote]Rocky101 wrote:
Nurses make good money, I don’t know any other field where you start at 50-60k a year with just a 2 year degree. Y’all better do something in the medical field,cause it is the only field that will not be outsourced to cheap labor in the next few years. Everything else will except the service jobs like retail and fast food.[/quote]
Wow. Thanks for the economics lesson. I will consider this.
DB
I say go for it. I have much respect for nurses. It is not a profession I think I could ever work in. I’m too impatient.
DB
[quote]chrisrodx wrote:
My friend and I are both very interested in health related degrees. However he wants to become a nurse. As a female dominated profession, what are your opinions on a MALE nurse; bodybuilder at that.
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Sounds good to me. They need some strong guys to help move around the 500+ pound patients that hospitals are being forced to deal with.