Male Nurses

What did you want to be when you were young? All the men out there, who said nurse, raise your hand. It is important to let go of what men and women can do as a profession. Whenever men enter nontraditional careers they should always be encourages.

What people should look into are professions such as Dental hygienists, licensed practical nurses, medical secretaries, nutritionists, and especially registered nurses.

Even if you are still considering what program suits you in college or whether you are looking for a change in your current, you can join these fields. It was a program the Navy offered his while he was still in high that made him become a male registered nurse at Alexian Brothers in Elk Grove Village.

Thanks to the financial aid program of the Navy he got a chance to enter Purdue University and get his bachelor's degree. Apart from being employed in the Navy, he got his first position as an RN in an emergency room in the Great Lakes. Even if there have been a lot of men enrolling in nursing reports The American Association of Colleges of Nursing the number of men graduating from it are only few.

He was the only person in the nursing program that actually finished it though there were four of them to begin with. What goes into the work is often not taught in the classroom. He added that it takes a special person to go into this field and it doesn't matter if you are male or female.

Although men may still to this day, encounter economic, gender, and cultural biases, the need for nurses should spur them into action, in this equal opportunity field. An online source claims that Illinois lost 10% of its RN workforce between 1996 and 2000, and one third of all Illinois nurses will be retiring within the next 10 years.

For the United American Nurses AFL CIO Web site there will no doubt be a rise of 150,000 open positions by the year 2005 due to the nursing shortage. The year 2010 will bring about the rise of 35% nursing jobs in the industry.

Due to the nursing shortage more nurses are earning more these days. New nurses who finished a 2 year degree program and have started out at Johns Hopkins University Hospitals earn between $ 42,000 and $ 45,000 the same article explained. For executive nurses their salaries can go up to $ 100,000.

It does not matter what your gender, and certainly regardless of age, economics, and culture consider going into this medical field. He was the only male nurse in the emergency room but there were more male nurses before him he is sure.

Since many have already lost their jobs, this will give them the change to enter an industry that is stable. And typically, jobs that are predominantly female are thought to be located in more secure places of employment.

Most of the time one can use nursing as the start of a greater career. This year there is one nurse who is on his way to medical school at Rush. These days there are plenty of schools, from junior colleges to universities offer nursing programs, and over 75 universities and medical schools nationwide that have PhD's for nurses.