Nursing Leadership & Management

Men in Nursing

Despite the stigma attached to it, more men are taking up nursing as their profession. Currently, only 7% of nurses are males. Though male nurses can specialize in all fields, men dominate as nurse anesthetists, with a 41.7% representation globally. Many male nurses also prefer Travel Nursing due to its higher pay scale and flexibility. This session focusses on the scope, advantages of men in nursing and possible ways to encourage more male students take up nursing as their profession.

Men have had a long and critical Association with Nursing yet it has been inadequately reported, incompletely on account of the issues with the terminology used to depict men in nursing   jobs. Men's dynamic inclusion in Nursing decreased in the late nineteenth century and Nightingale and her pupils unquestionably added to this wonder. The development of men out of nursing   likewise should be considered inside the setting of the prevailing belief system of the Victorian time. This period saw the foundation of ground-breaking male and female generalizations, which are as yet compelling today and acted to sexual orientation nursing as female.