Therefore, there should be gender-neutral image. It is also very significant that male and female students share the same learning experience. Irrespective of the efforts of the nursing schools in such direction many of the nursing programs put substantial discriminatory barriers in the field of clinical experience. Moreover, many male students still fear that examining a female student may give rise to the claim of inappropriate touching. The classroom teaching therefore, should cover the basic elements of appropriate touching. He advocates the nursing faculty to visualize for common signals of stress in their male students such as change in attitude, grades or that of attendance. (Williams, 2006)
It has increasingly been realized that nursing has missed the opportunity of being a stronger as well as a more balanced professional community. Stressing only on half the population we are to achieve only half the talent and value that society has to accord. Simultaneously, millions of male population has been deprived of the opportunity to have a rich, intellectually fulfilling and emotionally satisfying career in health care that is not at all boring and is always being considered to be in demand. Moreover, the men choosing the career in nursing is required to have much self-confidence in order to sit in the classroom of which most are composed of women. Being remunerated for doing something one love...
Nursing is considered to be a profession of doing well by doing well to others, which will impel the male population to enter into the nursing profession. (Men in Nursing)
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Men in Nursing" The University of Iowa College of Nursing http://www.nursing.uiowa.edu/students/men.pdf. Accessed 10 November, 2006
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