Traditionally, China people think that nurses should be done by women, but in fact, compared with women, men have many advantages as nurses. First of all, male nurses are strong, energetic, with less family burden and a wide range of work. Secondly, men have strong psychological endurance, especially for receiving trauma patients or nursing critically ill patients.
Moreover, men are tolerant, generous and have a sense of humor. In the face of patients with withdrawn or paranoid personality, it is easy to communicate with them and facilitate communication between doctors and patients. Therefore, male nurses are urgently needed in the emergency department, psychiatric department, CU ward and andrology department of some large hospitals.
Although male nurses are so popular in the job market, they are not understood when enrolling students. It is understood that the majority of students and parents lack a sense of identity for men to engage in nursing careers. Many people think that nurses are women's "patents", and it is hopeless for boys to study medicine instead of medicine.
There are still many people who think that the technical content of nursing specialty is too low. In many hospitals, nurses only give injections, dispense medicines, "help doctors" and "serve patients", and the social status and treatment given to nurses are not high, which is also an important reason that affects men's professional identity with nurses.
In addition, the nursing professionals are mainly technical personnel in secondary schools, and there are fewer nursing professionals with undergraduate and graduate degrees. From the perspective of education and attention, nurses are far less than doctors, which also reduces the attractiveness of this industry to men.
Female nurses dominate the world, and the proportion of male and female nurses in China is seriously unbalanced-there are no male nurses in the First Hospital of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, with 700 nurses, and only a mental hospital in Lanzhou City has several male nurses.
Among nurses in China, female nurses still dominate. Experts believe that the shortage of male nurses is the bottleneck of the development and improvement of nursing level in medical units in China.