Male nurses struggle with the stereotypes placed on them due to the dominance of women in the nursing practices. This is the result of decades of generalizing nurses as female, and in turn, male nurses face discrimination from educators, patients, and other nurses.
Still, male nurses are stereotyped and face struggles in the classroom and in their profession. The new merge of males into the nursing profession is due to many different issues including higher pay, a greater demand for nurses, and an improvement in tolerance and understanding of diversity in society.
The hyper-visibility of female nurses is very prevalent today, even as more male nurses join the nursing workforce. In response to these actions and divisions, the nursing profession became stereotypically female in the mind of society, and the male nurse became invisible. Since then, the nursing profession has become primarily female dominated and therefore schools, organizations and workplaces all have turned towards female interests. Women nurses, although the minority gained much recognition due to their involvement, and in 1901 the United States Nurse Corp was formed, a strictly female organization. The first American nurses were medics during the civil war most of which were male. The first known record of nursing as a profession was in ancient Rome when groups of men organized to treat victims of the plague. Nursing has been a profession throughout history. The Hyper-Visibility of the Male Nurse and the Invisibility of the Male Nurse's Discrimination and Struggles "I just did a paper for freshman english here at Syracuse University, and happened to find this forum while researching. The URL for the web site containing the quote is: The Web site for the organization under which the quote was posted is entitled "Nurses Forum". I am a male RN, a paralegal, and a biochemist.
I agree with him completely with regard to the same. The following is a quote from a paper written by Shawn Gardiner describing a scenario in which discrimination in nursing against men is wide spread, oppressive, and accepted.