Would You Want To Date A Nurse ?

[exitstageright]

This is from E-Harmony,of all places. How many of you agree with this?
Your crush is a nurse. We say stop nursing that crush — pardon the pun — and ask him/her out!
Here are 15 reasons to date a nurse:
1. Nurses are compassionate and patient, and are often great listeners.
2. Nurses are super-smart. If you’re into both brains and beauty, your date can deliver.
3. Tired of nursing that hangover? Let an actual nurse work his/her feel-better magic.
4. Nurses have seen bodies of all shapes and sizes — and witnessed every kind of bodily function imaginable. Your insecurities and body quirks will likely leave your date unfazed.
5. No waiting in line. You’ll get a quick diagnosis every time you feel under the weather.
6. The uniform. It’s not just sexy on Halloween. (Translation: those scrubs just look so cute and comfy.)
7. Impressive nerves. Nurses remain calm and collected in pretty stressful situations. You want to be dating a nurse in times of emergency and chaos.
8. Nurses work long hours. So if you want a little alone time, a nurse’s crazy schedule might suit you just fine. (Also, with odd hours come odd date times. Monday afternoon might become the new Friday night.)
9. Nurses make great future parents. No pressure or anything.
10. You’ll be safe. Date a nurse and you’ve got instant access to CPR, safety advice and disease-prevention tips.
11. Awesome “How was your day?” stories. Nurses have endless tales of patient and/or doctor drama.
12. You’ll start to understand the medical jargon on your favorite medical dramas.
13. Nurses will love your thoughtful gestures. They give to others all day and can often feel unappreciated.
14. Nurses understand selflessness, one of the key ingredients to a healthy relationship.
15. Your date saves lives. That’s brag-worthy.

I sure would not mind dating a nurse!

 

[dayhiker]

good points

 

[memoriesbymichelle]

sounds good.........unless she's nurse Diesel

Image Detail for - <b>nurse diesel </b>was from high anxiety

 

[blackribbon]

Nurses are also often the walking dead from working up to 12 hour shifts (all intense hours). They carry home interesting fungi, viruses and bacteria. And they can be very anal...a side effect of trying to survive nursing school.

(However, I still think that they are a good enough crowd that I'm trying to join them.)

 

[exitstageright]

sounds good.........unless she's nurse Diesel

Image Detail for - <b>nurse diesel </b>was from high anxiety

Or,Nurse.........Ratched,from "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest"

 

[exitstageright]

Nurses are also often the walking dead from working up to 12 hour shifts (all intense hours). They carry home interesting fungi, viruses and bacteria. And they can be very anal...a side effect of trying to survive nursing school.

(However, I still think that they are a good enough crowd that I'm trying to join them.)

Another side effect,as with many other professionals in the Medical Profession,is burn-out.

 

[blackribbon]

Another side effect,as with many other professionals in the Medical Profession,is burn-out.

However, in nursing, there are so many different arenas to nurse in that this can be balanced. However, I could see that after caring for people all day that it might get hard to come home and then have any energy left to care for your family. If you marry a nurse, be sure to remember to "care" for them, too.

(I fell asleep early and got up at 3am to finally do the huge pile of dishes.)

 

[Life2Christ]

(I fell asleep early and got up at 3am to finally do the huge pile of dishes.)

Been there. And done that.

 

[Niels]

A friend of mine is a nurse. She's smart, sensible, kind, and a hard worker. Despite the odd and often exhausting hours, I wouldn't hesitate to date someone in her line of work. As long as we're otherwise compatible, of course.

 

[blackribbon]

I'd date a male nurse in a minute. These guys really impress me.

 

[Brian75]

Yes I would date a nurse again!!

 

[CounselorForChrist]

My parents always prayed I would marry a nurse because of my complex disabilities. I did find many on sites like EHarmony but oddly enough they did not want a man who was unhealthy. Which really turned me off to wanting to date any. >.<

I may have not ended up with a nurse, but I have a woman that wants to take care of me and looks past any health issues. And in all honesty as a guy, men should go for Filipino women over nurses. Filipino women are considered the most loyal women on the planet. It also helps they are not american. I say that because america has really messed with a man and womans head so we seem to more accepting of things we shouldn't as couples.

 

[memoriesbymichelle]

I think that is being a little bit unfair. I will grant you that alot of women and men are not loyal, but I am American and have always been a very loyal person. And you are not even married yet, so you saying they are the most loyal women on the planet is based on what? You cannot use cookie cutter generalizations like that.

 

[dayhiker]

I've read enough to know that foriegn women are the same as local women and are different from local women. So just like being with a local woman there will be some good things and some bad things with a foriegn woman. But maybe the good will be what you want and it will be great.

 

[blackribbon]

As for dating a nurse when you need a caregiver...it would be hard. We almost have to have two different personalities...the one where we are taking care of patients requires us to learn how to detach in some ways...so it would be hard for a nurse to be a "wife" at the same time as a "caregiver". Also, a nurse would spend her whole day caring for other people and then have to come home and caregive to her husband would sound like an exhausting life. I don't think these ladies are really being cruel or unfair, but rather being honest about just how much they can handle.

And honestly, if your entire day is being spent around sick bodies...there is something important about coming home and realize that health and life does exist. It may not sound fair...but life isn't always fair.

Also, I know that nurses do fear (and a realistic fear) that they might aquire a disease at work...or worse yet, bring something home to their family. If we have a immune compromised family member, we carry the potential of killing our loved ones just by walking in the house....or sitting in our car in our hospital scrubs. Many nurses change their shoes before even walking in their home. I go straight to my washing machine and undress straight into it and then bleach my shoes in the laundry room sink.

 

[exitstageright]

I think that is being a little bit unfair. I will grant you that alot of women and men are not loyal, but I am American and have always been a very loyal person. And you are not even married yet, so you saying they are the most loyal women on the planet is based on what? You cannot use cookie cutter generalizations like that.

Well,unfortuneately,all stereotypes have some truth to them. While serving in the US Navy for six years,I have observed how the women from the Philipines treated their husbands. Those women were more affectionate,gentle,kinder,and sweeter than most American women whom I have met. This good,but sometimes clingy treatment of thier men is in their culture.
When I was interviewed for a job for the County Hospital,the Chiel Lab Tech said,"We also have a lab assistant,a Philiopina,who is studying to get her California License." As soon as she said the word,"Philopina",this thought raced through my head. That thought was,"I am going to marry her!" Sure enough,while working together on the night shift,we became good friends. I helped her to study for and to pass the California State Board Test for a Laboratory Technologist. She accepted me totally. She did not care if I was under six feet tall.She did not care about what type of car that I drove.She did not care about what kind of clothes that I wore.She did not care about how shiney my shoes were.AS Lab Techs,we made about the same amount of money. We got married within four years. And the rest is history.

 

[blackribbon]

Well,unfortuneately,all stereotypes have some truth to them. While serving in the US Navy for six years,I have observed how the women from the Philipines treated their husbands. Those women were more affectionate,gentle,kinder,and sweeter than most American women whom I have met. This good,but sometimes clingy treatment of thier men is in their culture.
When I was interviewed for a job for the County Hospital,the Chiel Lab Tech said,"We also have a lab assistant,a Philiopina,who is studying to get her California License." As soon as she said the word,"Philopina",this thought raced through my head. That thought was,"I am going to marry her!" Sure enough,while working together on the night shift,we became good friends. I helped her to study for and to pass the California State Board Test for a Laboratory Technologist. She accepted me totally. She did not care if I was under six feet tall.She did not care about what type of car that I drove.She did not care about what kind of clothes that I wore.She did not care about how shiney my shoes were.AS Lab Techs,we made about the same amount of money. We got married within four years. And the rest is history.

And not good history, if I remember correctly. Not too long ago you were complaining that she only loved your money.

I did not care what my husband looked like or how tall he was or even the fact that I had the potential to make more money than he did. I loved HIM and not the trappings. I'm a complete Heinz 57 American. I can list a HUGE list of women that live for caring for their husband's and families...and "do without" most "nice" things in order to accomplish this.

Stereotypes are VERY dangerous when you are talking about relationships. Are most Fillipino women HAPPY with their marriages and feel valued as human beings...or are they just acting out a role they were taught? I don't know the answer to this. Also, remember Fillipino women are looking for something different than American women because their culture values different things. This can be good or bad...depends on how you feel about financially supporting your extended family. You never know how being placed in an American culture will change them...some will keep their Fillipino culture and others will become "American" complete with our values.

 

[Doctor Strangelove]

And in all honesty as a guy, men should go for Filipino women over nurses. Filipino women are considered the most loyal women on the planet. It also helps they are not american.

Actually, I can't see that we American men have much to brag about...

 

[CounselorForChrist]

but I am American and have always been a very loyal person.

Well I should point out most women over 30 seem to have the old fashioned loyalty and morals. The young generations seem to lack that. And yes men can be just as unloyal too, if not more so.

And you are not even married yet, so you saying they are the most loyal women on the planet is based on what? You cannot use cookie cutter generalizations like that.

Most stories I see of men trying to find a good woman (around my age or older) say American women (just like the men) aren't the best in terms of Christianity and loyalty. They are to quick to divorce for example. And most of the men who do find someone tend to find them overseas, especially in the Philippines. Which may be because there are no divorce laws there and they focus more on God.

Am I saying this is proven fact? Well since I don't know what every man/woman and the world thinks, then no. But in my 15+ years of searching most stories end up being about filipino brides being the best.

This comes with a down side though. Some times filipino woman that come here and marry find America great at first until they realize how different it is here. How (as one told me) "lacking in being good christians". So they have the man move to the philippines or they live here but want to move more to the country.

Well,unfortuneately,all stereotypes have some truth to them. While serving in the US Navy for six years,I have observed how the women from the Philipines treated their husbands. Those women were more affectionate, gentle, kinder,and sweeter than most American women whom I have met....

Thanks. Yeah a few friends of my parents who were marines say the same thing. One of them married a woman from there and another one almost did.

I don't want to make it out like american women are terrible. Because honestly if you meet women from Russia then by all means most countries have women just as disloyal. Not to mention all the scam artists using men to come here for a green card.

As stated above you woman who are older then me are much more like the filipino women. If it wasn't that I was 31 I would likely (well if I wasn't with my fiance obviously) date someone older then me since they have the values I look for. My generation (both men and women) just seems more indoctrinated with American views about looking perfect, having "Stuff", divorce...etc.

Stereotypes are VERY dangerous when you are talking about relationships. Are most Fillipino women HAPPY with their marriages and feel valued as human beings...or are they just acting out a role they were taught? I don't know the answer to this. Also, remember Fillipino women are looking for something different than American women because their culture values different things. This can be good or bad...depends on how you feel about financially supporting your extended family. You never know how being placed in an American culture will change them...some will keep their Fillipino culture and others will become "American" complete with our values.

That is true. THats why despite what I say when I dated people I never judged them no matter where they were from, what they looked like...etc.

And your point about the filipino women being raised a certain way is a very good one. Some of my fiances friends (well sort of her friends) do act very different then she does. Some want american men because they have money, others because they like men can have blond hair and so on. So to that degree its why I made sure she was not loving me because I was american or because of reasons like that.

Its why I talked to my fiance for weeks upon weeks about everything I could and made sure this love was not for the wrong reasons. Like any country it has its share of women who don't understand love or who want to scam. My fiance just wants primarily to make sure I really love God and focus on him above all. Among other things like making sure I don't even think of things like divorce. I believe in always showing love and not anger...etc.

Actually, I can't see that we American men have much to brag about...

Your right. American men aren't much better, matter of fact we are worse really. Seeing the christian divorce rate at 50% and knowing often times its do to men cheating or looking at porn... it shows how this country is messing up both sexes when it comes to being christians.

Admittedly in my late teens and early 20s I was messed up myself. Until a sister in Christ who married a Japanese man and told me she loved living away from America because of what it does to people. Which is why she also intervened and got my life back on track. Its why I know often see what she does or what my fiance does about this country.

If God chooses to heal me I would hands down move to the Philippines.

 

[blackribbon]

In all honesty, your relationship with your fiance is also "in theory" only. This does not mean I don't think it will work out or that it isn't what you think it is...however, until you actually meet and live in the same house for 6 months as a married couple, you really don't know. (this applies to all couples ... even "living together" isn't the same). Trust me...no amount of preparation or talk really prepares you for the realities. However, commitment to making it work is a big factor and it appears that you both have it.

From what I read, there is divorce in the Phillipines...it just isn't as common and it is called "anullment" instead. I'm not so sure that translates to Fillipinos-American divorce rates...though I do expect these to be lower. Also remember "not divorced" does not equal "happy" or "good" marriage. Low divorce rates can also mean it is more shameful to divorce and has nothing to do with a society's ability to have good marriages.

And I'm not so sure you are being fair to women under age 30...because I know of many wonderful young women who are being raised by these committed Christian woman. However, these quality ladies aren't going to be found on online dating services or in bars, and probably will get married young and stay that way. Also, there is nothing unique about those of us over 30...people my age up to about 10 years older were raised by parents who put getting divorce "in style" and were the hippies into "free love". As a child, I vividly remember listening to a radio show person advising a woman to get a divorce because she "deserved to be happy" and that her kids would "get over it" and would be happy because she was happy. Yeah, whatever. If we are more loyal (and I doubt it), it is only because we have gotten wiser as we get older and realize that "trappings" aren't what it is all about.