Ares Collins Is Speaking

A well-known scene from the movie, Meet the Parents:

Jack: Greg's in medicine too. Bob: What field? Greg: Nursing Bob: Ha ha ha ha. No, really, what field are you in? Greg: Nursing.

And now, meet Ares Collins, a nurse who happens to be male (and African-American.) We discuss how both of these facts have impacted his career.

You will love Ares. You will hope that Ares, or someone like him, will care for you or your loved one if they need a nurse. He is clearly intelligent, cares about his patients, and is passionate about nursing. And you will hear about the side looks or the "really, nursing?" questions he gets all too often. However, you will also hear about how he has been able to connect with patients differently and how he has stood up for his female counterparts when they are being mistreated. 

Ares is someone who will show you that being a certain (or any) gender should not be the default for being a nurse. Toxic masculinity does hurt society and progress as a whole, not just one side of the coin. 

As we, as a society, realize that jobs don't have genders, we will get more nurses like Ares, more engineers like Dawn, more lawyers like Susan...which is to say more passionate, capable, dedicated people performing at the top of their game. 

Thank you, Ares, for joining us on I Am Speaking with Shailushi & Kosha.