Nursing School for Men

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I was unaware of this, but there really were schools for male students ONLY. Don't know if any still exist today or if they've all closed/been absorbed into other programs.

I read an obituary in my local newspaper the other day (yes, I am one of those who read obits). A nurse had died and it listed his SON. A little google research listed the school opening in 1914 and closing in 1965 when it went coed. It was a rather good school and the gentleman went on to have a distinguished career.

There was even a picture of 4 graduates/students posing. We've talked about the old standard white uniform with caps for women, but here was a pix of the guys in all the same white pants//top and wearing bowties. Very professional looking. It just caught my interest.

I'm guessing that that was the standard 'uniform' for men back in the day.

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Interesting. I never heard of an all male nursing college. When I was in Nursing college back in the early 80's it was new to have male students and they were in the same classes and clinicals as all the female nurses were.

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Found this post very interesting. Schools for men ONLY was not something I had ever even thought about before I read that obit. I did know that nsg had long been previously a male profession with religious and military overtones, but to think that those schools of nsg for males only existed up until not too long ago.

TY to wtbcrna for the link.

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Found this post very interesting. Schools for men ONLY was not something I had ever even thought about before I read that obit. I did know that nsg had long been previously a male profession with religious and military overtones, but to think that those schools of nsg for males only existed up until not too long ago.

TY to wtbcrna for the link.

Florence Nightingale and her predecessors did their best to exclude males from nursing. It has taken nearly a century to overcome that exclusion and stigma on males in nursing.

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Back in the day....very little was coeducational. Back further than that women were not educated and were considered property.

The first coeducational college was Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Oberlin, Ohio. It opened on Dec. 3, 1833 with 44 students, including 29 men and 15 women. Fully equal status for women didn't come until 1837, and the first three women to graduate with bachelor's degrees did so in 1841.

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Back in the day....very little was coeducational. Back further than that women were not educated and were considered property.

The first coeducational college was Oberlin Collegiate Institute in Oberlin, Ohio. It opened on Dec. 3, 1833 with 44 students, including 29 men and 15 women. Fully equal status for women didn't come until 1837, and the first three women to graduate with bachelor's degrees did so in 1841.

That doesn't have to do with male nurses. Women are the de facto standard in civilian nursing. We can sit explore all day long how women have been mistreated and still are mistreated today, but this doesn't mean that male nurses should be overlooked or that we should conviently forget how much Florence Nightingale set back males in nursing. Men are still discriminated in nursing, and if you don't believe that you can see some of the discussions about male nurses working in L&D.

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I think you completely missed my point....That was the furthest of my intention in posting that. I merely pointed out that schools and colleges were not coeducational for an extended period of time. I was not surprised that at one time there was an all male nursing school. I have had males with with me since I began nursing so I don't find their presence unusual.

At NO TIME did I intend to debate how women were marginalized. I never once meant any implication that males aren't treated badly by some in nursing.

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I think you completely missed my point....That was the furthest of my intention in posting that. I merely pointed out that schools and colleges were not coeducational for an extended period of time. I was not surprised that at one time there was an all male nursing school. I have had males with with me since I began nursing so I don't find their presence unusual.

At NO TIME did I intend to debate how women were marginalized. I never once meant any implication that males aren't treated badly by some in nursing. So you can point your frustration towards someone else.To blame Good Ole Flo is only partially correct. Where are the men? Nursing, Jul 2003

There were all male nursing schools long before there were women in nursing. Men in nursing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Actually, the article you posted goes back to the root cause of changes to exclude men in nursing was from Florence Nightingale and her female predecessors. The subsequent cultural changes that continue to cause low numbers of men in nursing are still attributable to Florence Nightingale.

Florence Nightingale did some great things for nursing, but she failed in her views/practices of males in nursing and also set nurses back several decades when it comes to autonomy.

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If you click the link the article from Lippencott nursing center is there with that quote. The article goes on to talk about how Good Ole Flo's model discouraged and outright refused men. It also talks about the stereotypes that men have about nursing that discourages them from entering the profession.

http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/pdfjournal?AID=416205&an=00152193-200307000-00038&Journal_ID=&Issue_ID=

Although men have worked as nurses for centuries,

some deep-rooted negative attitudes keep men from

considering nursing as a career choice. For example:

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stereotyped behavior (men who display caring atti-

tudes aren’t very masculine)

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stereotyped roles (a woman is “a nurse”; a man is “a

male nurse”)

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lack of knowledge about what nurses do (my dad

asked me, “Do you want to carry bedpans for the rest

of your life?”).

Wanted: An attitude adjustment Frederick J. Tasota, RN, MSN

It goes on to say that there needs to be education amongst males...which has been seen here at AN. I never said men were not excluded from nursing I was simply commenting that of course there were all male schools and women were not educated at all.

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Check out Alexian Brothers.... very distinguished history, including establishing male-only hospitals in the US. Like all single-sex organizations, they have religious (Catholic) origins. It has evolved into a major health care system. There's no room for anyone to be "less than" in today's world - we're all nurses, no matter what plumbing we have.

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