I have not been in this profession for long but then i can see that we have made it women's profession and then is not helping that much ,especially in my country and other few countries.
The male figure in this profession would be awesome because of their inherent natural ability in handling physical situation ranging from carrying of patients in the carriers, wheeling them into the hospitals and wards,helping in shifting them on bed when they are immobile and other activities that are tedious.
I appeal to our men to come join us and make the health sector and the nursing profession sweeter.lets make it a profession for all that is my take amongst other things they can do for us..
As a male electing a profession that has been "gender identified" (by society as a whole--if not by the profession itself) as female...I find that me and my male counterparts all chose this profession for reasons other than "the logical choice". Just as female firefighters, police officers, etc. might have just hand to want it bad enough to put-up-with the gender bias of their career choice. Males who really shouldn't be nurses in the first place are more likely to not finish school, or stay with it. Not sure I would go so far as to say that all male nurses are somehow better in any criteria--but certainly would submit that there is an extra stumbling block to weed out the would-be dullards.
Agree with Dany...on both points. You too Pixirose. Subsidies to any sub-cultural identifier (whether monetary or hiring preference) ultimately weakens the profession--every profession, every time. Both have been done in several professions over the years with the short term result being an influx of the desired gender/race entering the professions. Can't think of a time it has ever been tried for caucasians, or males, but it is still a lousy idea--and patently unfair for the non-selected group.
I have not been in this profession for long but then i can see that we have made it women's profession and then is not helping that much ,especially in my country and other few countries.
The male figure in this profession would be awesome because of their inherent natural ability in handling physical situation ranging from carrying of patients in the carriers, wheeling them into the hospitals and wards,helping in shifting them on bed when they are immobile and other activities that are tedious.
I appeal to our men to come join us and make the health sector and the nursing profession sweeter.lets make it a profession for all that is my take amongst other things they can do for us..
As a male electing a profession that has been "gender identified" (by society as a whole--if not by the profession itself) as female...I find that me and my male counterparts all chose this profession for reasons other than "the logical choice". Just as female firefighters, police officers, etc. might have just hand to want it bad enough to put-up-with the gender bias of their career choice. Males who really shouldn't be nurses in the first place are more likely to not finish school, or stay with it. Not sure I would go so far as to say that all male nurses are somehow better in any criteria--but certainly would submit that there is an extra stumbling block to weed out the would-be dullards.
Disclaimer: I'm a female. So I obviously know absolutely nothing about what it takes to be a man pursing nursing.
But I will say that I have met my fair share of men considering nursing because 1)it pays well considering you only need an associates degree and 2) you "only" have to work 3 days a week and get 4 days to party it up. These men had absolutely zero hesitation about going into nursing at all.
I think some men and women develop martyr-syndrome when they go into nursing.
Davey Do
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