Are male nurses called Sister?

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That's the sort of thing that keeps me awake.

Male nurse on ward I regularly visit loves that hes a sister!

Doctor means a surgeon has graduated medical school. Mr /Miss means they've passed their nasty surgical exams, they get to show off their dedication to surgery with a name change. They feel that they've earned their 2nd name change as much as they originally earned doctor.
All the other specialities (which also have their own nasty post graduate exams) stay doctors (they don't need everyone to know who has exams and who hasn't).

Oh yes, the step up to Mr/Miss (whatever for a woman) is a BIG DEAL. Quite the status symbol

Our local hospital lets staff choose. There’s a lovely nurse who takes great pleasure in having Sister Colin on his name badge.

I've worked with male nurses who've been called sister, also a few male matrons. Was never a big deal really.
The Dr/Mr thing is a massive thing though. Physicians stay as doctor, surgeons become Mr/Mrs/miss.
Super fun when it varies within a specialty, e.g. most obstetricians are Dr but some are also gynae surgeons so are Mr/Mrs/Miss.

Thank you MN, I have learned much today.

Interesting. I had no idea what a charge nurse was. Sister Colin would be clearer to me!

That is a fascinating bit of cultural knowledge and has made my (unbearable hot) day. Thank you!!!

I got a right cheesy grin off a new Mr Surgeon when I called him Mr for the first time. He was properly chuffed with himself.

MockerstheFeManist
...And what about female surgeons?
Are they 'Mister' ....?

I read recently of one who INSISTED on being called Mister
Can't remember where I saw it though

Wasn't Charlie on Casualty a charge nurse? I think that was the first time I came across it (over 30 years ago )

My female consultant called herself Miss S. at the hospital but for non-professional purposes, she was known as Mrs Marriedname.

That's all so confusing. What does charge nurse even mean?

In Ireland they're called Clinical Nurse Managers. CNMs.

So it's 100% unisex and really obvious it's a managerial role. A lot simpler!

That's something I have never thought of however before reading this I'd have said 'brother' 🤣

I imagine it means nurse in charge ?

Do hospital staff call each other by their first names or do they use titles like on Holby City?

"Nurse Gonk, this patient needs a head CT"
"Certainly, Dr Petrenko"
"Prep this patient for theatre - Sister Gonk"
"I'm on it, Mr Spence"

Yes, I was initially going for Brother and thought that was a bit monk-y.

I hope that want a tupo Staff Nurse Aubergine 😂😂

I thought that surgeons are called Mr etc. as a historical throwback to the time when trained medics were Doctors but surgery was often performed by barber-surgeons who had no medical quals but had the tools. Hence the red and white traditional pole outside a barbershop (blood and bandages).

About the first names thing. In my experience most Doctors like to call the nurses by their first names, but then want to be called Dr so and so or Mr. I only let them use my first name if I could use theirs!

Depends on the unit I find @AbGonk
One unit I worked on we called each other by first names, from the top staff to the bottom, but always referred to the Dr’s as Dr in front of patients.
Last unit I worked on we always called the Dr’s Dr SoAndSo.
My patients call me Sister, it’s what my name badge says, but I tell people to call me my first name.

In the department I work in now (histopathology) most of the doctors are called by their first name by all the staff, apart from a couple of very old school pathologists who like to be addressed by their title. I don’t know if they’ve demanded that or whether people just do it out of respect and it’s a sort of unwritten rule.

We call most of our junior doctors by their first name, but most of the consultants are Dr Whatever. Doctors call nurses by our first names if they remember. One called me something different the other day but I answered anyway and he did apologise later. My job title is Junior Sister. There was once a male in the job role, and his job title was officially Charge Nurse but we called him Junior Brother for amusement.

Elspeth in my Trust (mental health) Clinical Nurse Manager is the title of the hospital manager, I certainly don't want that role, although the salary would be nice😉

Charge Nurse is basically nurse in charge, more responsibility than a Band 5 staff nurse.

We all call each other by our first names. One Dr has a very long surname so he is referred by his first name to the patients as well.

Where I use to work a band 5 nurse ,Male or female, was a nurse. band 6 or 7 was known as ward sister (female) or charge nurse (male) band 8 was matron and that was a Male or female.