“but it is interesting the double standards some have”
Nurses have traditionally been female, for a long time now. It’s only to be expected that people look askance on men who want a woman’s job. It’s not a matter of men being unable to do the job; it’s just creepy.
It’s a lot less creepy when the male nurse has been a corpsman or a medic. In the XlinBushBama crappy economy, it makes sense for a young man without a degree to parlay military experience into a real job.
A lot more of those ex-corpsmen and medics would probably go to medical school, if the seats weren’t taken by affirmative action admissions.
BTW: I don’t see any double standards here. Just people acting like people, and people not acting like people.
Not too many actually have looked askance at male RN’s at least in the time period I have trained and have practiced.. there has been an explosion of new(after about 1985 or so) ofa lot of new nursing jobs and types of nursing jobs in and out of hospitals actually appeal to the male psyche...especially the more technical specialized fields critical care ICU, nurse-anesthetists, NP’s acting as hospital intensivists. Males in the field have often been credited for influencing and pushing for higher salaries for nurses which have benefited both the men and the women as well as positive changes in working conditions.
As for nurses being traditionally ‘female” that occurred as a historical bubble when Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton began the first modern movements for training of young women to be RN’s with standardized curricula backed by what was state of the art in medicine in the late 1800’s.(From about the 1880’s thru about 1975 or so it was assumed most RN’s would or should be female in the US and Europe)Before the 1870’s) Before that time, most military medics and doctors were males when it came to medicine and if you go back further into history, it often fell to monks and nuns to care for the sick.
Muslims would just love there to be male RN’s and Male Doctors for the men and female RN’s and female docs for the ladies....perhaps that should be the way to go...perhaps it would be less “creepy” for ya? Eh DSC? Wouldn’t you say? It’s creepy that male doc’s should also have female patients? Right DSC? Wouldn’t you say?