Effectivity of Male Nurse-Instructors

VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN · Sep 13, 2003

We would be GLAD to have any instructors, male or female. We are very short on instructors and would welcome with open arms a qualified male (if one would apply). We only have females on nursing faculty staff, but not on purpose.

Agnus · Sep 13, 2003

One of my instructors was male. I don't understand why this should be a problems unless male and female cultural difference in your country could cause a problem. I am not familiary ENOUGH with your culture to know if the could cause an adverse effect.

Todd SPN · Sep 13, 2003

Mabuhay to you!

I had one male instructor. I did not notice any difference in the curriculum between the male and female instrutors I had. I'm referring to the way the material was presented. I did notice that my female classmates (most) interacted differently with the male instructor as did the male classmates when they had a female instructor. It is hard to put into words, but if you were on the job and the authority figure was a male as are you, you would have a different manner of relating than you would to a female. I know this is not a popular thing to say, but alike genders know how to present what they want to get across to each other in a natural way, whereas often times dissimilar genders have to take into account the differences. To generalize, it would be like man talking to man about fixing a car and a woman talking to a woman about baking a cake. (God, I see the sh*t hitting the fan already.) Anyway, my point is, having the opportunity to work with both genders in the classroom and clinicals like one does in the workplace was of real benefit. During one phase of my clinicals where I had a female instructor, I had a problem that was male gender specific. No matter how I tried she kept trying to convince me that in shouldn't matter as a nurse is a nurse. Well, it mattered to the pt I was taking care of. I think a male instructor would have understood where I was coming from. On the other hand, when I had the male instructor for clinicals, I heard a few of the females say that he did not understand their situation.

Since the world is diverse, I feel it is of great benefit to have diversity in instructors in the nursing programs. There is no way I could know, but I'd bet having a male perspective in the instructor's meetings made a difference in the curriculum.

Noney · Sep 13, 2003

The sex of the instructor should not matter at all. The knowledge and abitily to share the knowledge is what matters.

Noney

Elenaster · Sep 13, 2003

While I agree with you Noney, I think that male instructors bring much needed perspective and support to nursing programs, particularly for male students.

I had one male nursing instructor in my BSN program and he was excellent. Unfortunately, the politics of the College of Nursing got to him after awhile and he ended up going back to case management at the hospital. Not to mention that he was somewhat underemployed, teaching only clinical at a rehab hospital, when his background was emergency medicine and critical care. I really enjoyed his method of teaching and he was infinitely patient with us. I do remember many of the patients referring to him as "the doctor."

VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN · Sep 13, 2003

I'm female but I generally am able to relate better and work better with males. I think a male instructor or two around our small nursing school would be of immense benefit. I did have one male professor in my RN-BSN program--he had a lifetime of nursing experience and wisdom and I always enjoyed his classes. :cool:

SteelTownRN · Sep 13, 2003

I had several male nursing instructors throught 3 degrees in nursing, who were all quite effective. I now teach nursing, and have worked with several meal insturctors, who were no different than the females that I worked with: some were lazy and some were productive. It's not a gender thing, but a competency thing. You either teach well or you don't.

_STG

Mint Julip · Sep 14, 2003

I had one male instructor who taught theory and clinical. I preferred him over some of the female instructors. He was very candid and didn't put up with any baloney. That turned a lot of the other students off.

nardongputik2 · Sep 15, 2003

Maraming Salamat Po! (Thank you!)

Well, all your views and opinions are really helping me out, guys!

Keep on coming...

I hope you could also refer my thread to more of your friend nurses or students...:roll

mariechris · Nov 7, 2003

edited due to material solicitation