Post: #51

(04-29-2014 11:09 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:  I'll drop in my bit of advice as someone who HIRES/FIRES nurses, LVNs and RNs respectively.

If you're a male, don't go into nursing!

Your choices will be severely limited, especially if you go into home health or pediatrics. Most people will prefer a female nurse as they think every male nurse if a perv or possible rapist...I'm not kidding. It hurts every time I interview a male nurse as I don't have much work for him.

On the other hand, you can excel where women cannot. That is with higher acuity or heavy/violent patients. Taking that into consideration, you can ask for a higher pay rate due to the environment.

If you go into nursing, have a great work ethic and be dependable. The last two are traits that female nurses lack because they know they're more in demand. A male nurse who is dependable and has good skills with always have a job and make good money. I know an RN who is making 200K a year making his own schedule because 1- he knows his shit 2 - he's always up to the challenge, no matter how challenging it gets.

Be a surgical RN. A lot of the surgeons I know would rather work with a male nurse than a female one in the OR. They make faster decisions, more decisively and command a premium for it.

Post: #52

(04-30-2014 09:09 AM)Lucario Wrote:  Thank you for the advise. I was always told to not go into female dominated workplaces by my red pill friends but Nursing looks good and fits well with my natural attitude to help people and interest in the human body .

(04-29-2014 11:09 PM)Cattle Rustler Wrote:  I'll drop in my bit of advice as someone who HIRES/FIRES nurses, LVNs and RNs respectively.

If you're a male, don't go into nursing!

Your choices will be severely limited, especially if you go into home health or pediatrics. Most people will prefer a female nurse as they think every male nurse if a perv or possible rapist...I'm not kidding. It hurts every time I interview a male nurse as I don't have much work for him.

On the other hand, you can excel where women cannot. That is with higher acuity or heavy/violent patients. Taking that into consideration, you can ask for a higher pay rate due to the environment.

If you go into nursing, have a great work ethic and be dependable. The last two are traits that female nurses lack because they know they're more in demand. A male nurse who is dependable and has good skills with always have a job and make good money. I know an RN who is making 200K a year making his own schedule because 1- he knows his shit 2 - he's always up to the challenge, no matter how challenging it gets.

Are there anyways of assuring the employer that I do not go by the "perv or possible rapist" male nurse stereotype ?

Yeah, there's a simple way. Have great work ethic, don't lie, and show up on time. The male nurses who have those traits always have work and making major bank because families really appreciate them.

But it's difficult to change a person's perspective at first.

Post: #53

One of the Orderlies pushing a friend's bed through the halls at SF General told me matter of fact he was making 82k, and that none of the nurses had the strength to push beds around between rooms. He was also doing a travel assignment at the hospital same as nurses do.

He was not buff. I'd say he was 5'2 and 160 lbs. Don't know if he was pulling overtime to get to his number. He was just pushing beds on the same floor level, or using one of the many elevators if they needed to move up or down to another floor. Didn't look that physically challenging to me.

Being an Orderly may be something to consider if you want to check out the work environment first before you commit years to getting a degree.

Post: #54

(05-01-2014 01:11 PM)deuce Wrote:  Good to see this thread. I'm knocking out my prereqs now in between overseas work trips (semester on, semester off) and will start nursing school next fall.

I'm going to go the military route; I was in the Army before but am looking to be an ER or CC RN in the Air Force.

I am curious how most male nurses in their mid/late thirties have fared in nursing as a second career? A good friend of mine here in the mountain West became a nurse at 38, he's now 43 and killing it as a flight nurse.

Are you doing your pre-req's at a 4 year college or somewhere else?
How long does that take?

Post: #55

I'll be commensing the first week of my nursing course on July.

I do not mean to make the bullet points will sound distasteful, but I will keep it toned down as much as I can.

Just out of curiosity, I do have some small reservations about it and I was wondering how some of the nurses on RVF got over it. Don't get me wrong, the advantages far outweigh the small disadvantages, but in all fields of work, there are disadvantaged that must be overcome.

-Cleaning of old patients...dreading the thought of cleaning up a fat feminist landwhale.
-handling patients that cannot control their bowels + smell of poop
-aggressive patients
-vomit


Secondly, any RN nurses on here use nursing as a means of travelling ? Can you still find consistent work in places like Poland/Estonia/Bulgaria/Russia/ AKA pussy paradise ?

My main plan in all of this is to do nursing, work in Aus/US/UK for 3 years, then try and move to a European country for the women.

Post: #56

(05-02-2014 05:30 PM)The_CEO Wrote:  

(05-01-2014 01:11 PM)deuce Wrote:  Good to see this thread. I'm knocking out my prereqs now in between overseas work trips (semester on, semester off) and will start nursing school next fall.

I'm going to go the military route; I was in the Army before but am looking to be an ER or CC RN in the Air Force.

I am curious how most male nurses in their mid/late thirties have fared in nursing as a second career? A good friend of mine here in the mountain West became a nurse at 38, he's now 43 and killing it as a flight nurse.

Are you doing your pre-req's at a 4 year college or somewhere else?
How long does that take?

You have the option to do a full RN nursing course which takes 1.8 months. You can PM me for details.

Post: #57

(05-02-2014 05:30 PM)The_CEO Wrote:  

(05-01-2014 01:11 PM)deuce Wrote:  Good to see this thread. I'm knocking out my prereqs now in between overseas work trips (semester on, semester off) and will start nursing school next fall.

I'm going to go the military route; I was in the Army before but am looking to be an ER or CC RN in the Air Force.

I am curious how most male nurses in their mid/late thirties have fared in nursing as a second career? A good friend of mine here in the mountain West became a nurse at 38, he's now 43 and killing it as a flight nurse.

Are you doing your pre-req's at a 4 year college or somewhere else?
How long does that take?

I apologize for the late reply...

I'm taking a semester off each year to knock out the prereqs I can't CLEP or do online (chem and bio require labs). I work overseas so I'll work for most of the year then take a summer or regular semester off (depending on when the needed courses are available) and load myself up with 15-18 hours since I won't have to work.

I'm pretty much starting from scratch on the science end as I have a useless BA and no science or math background. It should take me 3 full semesters; different nursing schools have more/less required classes. I took a required psych class online, taught myself college algebra by just buying a textbook and doing the lessons while working overseas then CLEPed out of it upon my return home.

Spring 2015 will be my first full semester of prereqs, I'm taking 15 hours (4 classes) at at 4-year state university.