Gender Studies for Health Professionals

Being a male nurse in a maternity unit can be tricky, he says-but as one of just a handful of men in the University of Calgary's entire faculty of nursing, Hume is used to feeling like the odd man out sometimes. "Men have traditionally been used as the muscle, to lift heavy patients, ...

The health care industry is facing a worldwide shortage. Despite a repeated call for a greater effort on recruitment and retention of men nurses to aid the nursing shortage, men remain a minority within the profession. In Canada, less than 7% of the nursing workforce are men. Using a survey, all men registered nurses in the Atlantic provinces ...

Nursing is a predominantly female profession. This is reflected in the demographic of nursing around the world. Some authors have noted that despite being a gendered profession men are still advantaged in terms of pay and opportunity. The aim of this study was to examine if the so called glass escalator in which men are advantaged in female professionals still exists.

Because of sociocultural norms, people often feel more comfortable sharing ideas, issues, or worries with others of the same gender. Here in Pakistan, women commonly talk about household concerns, shopping, ...

A male nurse discusses how his experiences in a maternal-newborn role helped him in overcoming challenges at the workplace. He attributes his success in this role to perseverance. Aside from giving advice for men who are new to the field ...

The profession seeks to recruit and retain qualified nurses, while embracing a diverse workforce. A descriptive naturalistic inquiry was undertaken with a population whose voice has not been actively solicited in the literature, that of practicing registered nurses (rns) who are male. the research question was, "What is the essence of nursing as perceived by practicing rns who are male?"...

Based on the lived experiences of male nurses, this article argues for a nuanced, dynamic, and contextualized understanding of co-culture. In applied context, this understanding means that context-specific changes in patterns of interaction can create more welcoming and satisfying work environments, aiding the reduction of retention-related nursing shortages...

In this paper, the authors situate existing scholarship about men in nursing within the broader gendered landscape of the profession and society. As a consequence, the need to reframe the discourse about men in nursing from the current emphasis on personal or collective experiences to collective action becomes apparent.

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