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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None taken.🙂
Don’t get me started. I am a woman, and during one of my hospital stays I did not at all appreciate having a male nurse attend me. I had no doubts about his abilities, and he was very nice, but I was quite perturbed when they sent him to assist me the day I was getting dressed to be discharged. What!?
Poor pay and it's mostly changing old people diapers.
You have to be kidding. I have been a volunteer at our local hospital for 12 years, and there have been plenty of male nurses for all of those years. The pay is very good, and there is a national shortage. So, lots of jobs available.
Oh boy, that sure sounds like fun. Getting to see some 90 year old woman naked. Then there’s the real obese ones. Or the ones so nasty the flies and cock roaches hide when they come into the clinic.
It’s not what you think.
I work in an ER and I’ll never forget the 90 year old woman who flashed me.
“Hey sonny!’’
Ain’t enough eye bleach in all the world.
Yup. But a lot of newer ER have rooms set up with an overhead lift.
“I don’t know a single nurse (I worked in a hospital, so I knew a lot of them) who started out wanting to be a doctor. I know several who have become PAs or NPs.”
Likewise. I taught nursing students in a BS degree program (anatomy/physiology lab) and worked with many as a medical technologist, and none of them ever mentioned having an interest being a doctor. I think some of them had the ability to make it into/through med school, just like some pre-med students do (while most don’t).
As others have mentioned, I also saw more than one occasion where an experienced, attentive nurse saved an MD’s/DO’s bacon.
But, you reminded me of many years ago when I was in my mid teens. My Granny was a real pioneer woman born in Indian territory Oklahoma the year it became a state. We were all working, all day clearing limbs, saplings and brush on our grandparents 40 acres. We had filled up the trailer and took it to the ravine that was perpendicular to the brush cut driveway to the cabin.
As I jumped down from the truck granny was wiping sweat and was not paying any attention to the fact that her work shirt had come open. She just gave a healthy cackle obviously from her seeing my shocked face.
Neither of us said anything and my siblings and cousins were on the other side of the truck and trailer. As you said, "Ain’t enough eye bleach in all the world."
When I was in the Air Force I happened to see a young woman in a bikini who was strung out on speed. Her breasts were like flaps of skin. That was something I'm glad I never have seen again.
Yes I know it was in jest. Thank you for your warm post. I’ve seen more than enough , ah.. ‘’seasoned citizens’’; as El Rushbo’’ used to say in moments of ‘indelicacy’’.
Kinda get used to it.
What counters it however are those angels of mercy , the many numerous beautiful young women, the nurses.
All the eye bleach I need.
Didn’t you ask for a female nurse?
All you had to do was ask who the charge nurse is and tell him/her you DON”T want a male nurse.
Will know, next time, thanks. Hoping there will not be a next time, though.
“Hoping there will not be a next time, though.’’
Indeed. Here’s to that!
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