Yes, they're nurses. Yes, they're men. [View all]

Male nurses face the same kind of judgment, even discrimination, females seem to face in just about every other profession.

When Justin Tuell, Josh Lamarr and RW Collett went through nursing school, they had professors pull them aside, remind them Florence Nightingale didn't approve of male nurses and tell them they didn't have what it takes. When they enter a room, on the job, patients assume they're the doctors, or people wonder openly why they couldn't finish medical school. Many times, they're asked to move the heavier patients or quell the more combative ones.

But they have an answer for all this angst. They call it the Bro Row.

Even the name is inherently sexist. Imagine, said Lamarr, 31, if they said they worked with a bunch of chicks.

But they've embraced the name. They love the fact they have other male nurses in the Intensive Care Unit at North Colorado Medical Center, where they work 12-hour shifts that start at either 7 a.m. or 7 p.m. They hunt together, laugh with (and at) each other and support each other's hobbies, such as Collett's beer brewing that grew into him just opening the Tilted Barrel Brew Pub in Loveland. The two bet Collett, 37, they couldn't bring 100 employees of Banner Health to his opener. When he gladly lost that bet, Collett had to shave his beard.

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