Literature Review on Male Nurse

Literature Review on Male Nurse

According to American Society of Registered Nurses (2008), the statistics of male nurses represent just a small fraction of the nursing workforce in the United States. The popular notion that nursing is not for men and admission capacity constraints of Nursing Schools seem to be a major obstacles towards bringing more men to the profession. Although male nurses often face the challenges of gender discrimination, especially in specialties like obstetrics and gynecology, where, women often prefer to have female nurses. Male nurses often end up in leadership roles and in specialties like intensive care, emergency and operating room nursing (American Society of Registered Nurses, 2008).

A quantitative non-experimental descriptive study to elucidate quantitatively the gender role perceptions of male nurses using the Short-form Bem Sex Role Inventory has shown that adherence to the female gender role is an important prerequisite to caring and adoption of facets of the female gender role may not be unique to male nurses (Loughery, 2008). Studies have also shown that men experience the process of nursing differently than women (Anthony, 2006). Such stigmatizing factors form a barrier to patient care, deter men's entry into the profession and play a major role in problems related to retention (Harding, 2007). Published evidence also suggests that success of men in nursing is disproportionate and male nurses face gender-based disadvantage compared with that of women (Tracey and Nicholl, 2007). Recent research studies have shown that male nurses face gender-based barriers even during their nursing education programs (Keogh and O'Lynn, 2007). According to J,.Turner (2010) most men who made the pioneering decision to go to nursing school had to overcome significant barriers, such as gender discrimination from female instructors and students, unequal access to clinical training in areas like obstetrics and gynecology, and lack of support from family and friends who...

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