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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

DSanner106 AT aol.com wrote:

> I agree, and this is a problem faced by not only women but men as well. My 
> wife
> is a Nurse and Nursing Professor. While in school, she told me horrible 
> stories about
> how male students were bashed, mistreated, given the worst patients, and 
> toughest
> questions in an effort to drive them out of the program. They were typically 
> outnumbered
> 30-1 and would usually be the only male in a given class. The all female 
> faculty (my wife
> still knows just 1 male nurse professor nationwide) panel had to be forced to 
> admit them
> during the review process and really defended nursing as a female profession. 
> As bad
> as the nursing shortage is in this country and others, we can't afford to 
> turn away any
> seeking such a career.
>
> Drew
>
>  
tvoivozhd---you are absolutely right---talent and commitment should 
never be wasted.  I am all too familiar with the nursing 
prefession---one daughter and one daughter-in-law are long-time 
nurses---and in the VA Recovery room the excellent nurses are all male.  
The idea that nursds are necesszrily female is absurd.