Posted on 12/12/2024 1:23:36 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Brandon Holcombe went straight from high school to working as a welder in northern Georgia, but it wasn’t for him.
Holcombe worried that the field was being automated away by robots, and besides, he wanted something with more problem-solving skills. Now, a decade later and at 28 years old, Holcombe is a long way from welding, studying at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine to become a registered nurse.
“Each day brings new learning opportunities,” Holcombe said.
The number of men in the U.S. with the job of registered nurse has nearly tripled since the early 2000s. Many come to the field after working in the military or in jobs, such as paramedics or firefighters, that exposed them to the work of nurses.
“What I hear a lot from female students is, ‘I’ve always wanted to be a nurse, I like helping people,’ where the men tend to look more at job security and job stability,” said Jason Mott, president of the American Association for Men in Nursing.
Many of the manufacturing jobs that are being moved overseas, replaced by automation or phased out of the American economy were mostly filled by men. As a result, other occupations traditionally dominated by women are now gaining a larger share of men, including elementary and middle-school teachers and customer-service representatives.
Still, nursing is a relative outperformer in the proportion of men joining what has long been considered a “pink collar” sector. The number of male registered nurses has increased from about 140,000 in 2000 to about 400,000 in 2023. This means that about 14% of nurses are now men, up from about 9% roughly two decades ago.
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I will point out that when you start with one nurse, you are in, if you are wired for opportunities.
Good to know. :-)
OMG...I had managed to forget all about that ridiculous, unprofessional crap. Then you go and remind me. Now I’ll have to unsee that all over again.
You can disagree if you want. You’d have to assert that 2 years of education, if the burners are on, are equal to upwards of 18 years of education and training in order to disagree with me.
But feel free to disagree. I don’t mind.
What do you want to bet that all the wacky woke woksters thought the headline was about males nursing new born babies with their own “milk.” If a “man” can give birth, why can’t “he” nurse an infant?
That’s the reason I’ve been glad to see that more men are becoming nurses. A loved one was very ill. He wasn’t larger than the average man, but most of the nurses were female. When he needed to be moved, he had to wait and wait in an uncomfortable position while the nurse looked for another nurse to help her. I always helped when I was there, but I couldn’t move him by myself, either. But, a male medical assistant worked there, and he could move a patient easily with no help. Whenever he was on duty, my loved one would call for him or tell me to go find him.
Know a fellow in his early forties, he had been the Emergency Response Director at a famous hospital and then went back and got an RN degree. He was happy with the bidding war for his post graduation job.
In this case, my family member will use any assistance device as a crutch. It’s a long story, but there are definite motivation issues involved.
It seems like a key sentence is being missed in the posts:
“Many of the manufacturing jobs that are being moved overseas, replaced by automation or phased out of the American economy were mostly filled by men.”
If we don’t make goods to trade overseas the money for our vastly overpriced medical system will run out.
“You’d have to assert that 2 years of education, if the burners are on, are equal to upwards of 18 years of education and training in order to disagree with me.”
I have no idea what you’re referring to. When did you posit that 2 years of education are not equal to 18 years of education, and who then disagreed with that?
Your comment was that people became nurses because they couldn’t become doctors, which is no doubt true for some nurses, but not true for the vast majority.
Where would you expect people training to be doctors, but couldn’t cut it in the program to go? McDonalds?
They go into some lower form of practice of medicine, which would most likely be nursing. If they couldn’t cut it to be a nurse, they wouldn’t have made into the school of medicine to train as a doctor.
There is an interesting proposition: Ask your Primary Care Physician if they passed the MCAT Exam on their first attempt. The answer might make you wonder a bit.
Due to a medical issue needing a Foley, my husband refers having a male nurse. The women, especially younger ones, do not get it.
Much needed. My son is a combat medic and thinking about it.
Many nurses do NOT want to be doctors, not because of the rigors of education, but due to the different approach to patients.
What you said was disgusting
“Hey you...almost a doctor!” - Bill Cosby “Tonsils”
The Hoyers are not the best always. My husband is a big guy, male nurses, or whatever they were called, could move him fast and carefully.
Yet, you admit that nurses function on a lower level. But I’m disgusting for simply saying the same thing.
A different level. Compare nurse practitioners to physicians’ assistants. They have the same kevel of education, but different approaches to patients.
What you said was rude, even if true
Kevel=level
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