Unique advantages Physical fitness and endurance
Yang Gong, who is working as a nurse in the ICU section of the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Medical Sciences, is a student of 2004 at the School of Health Sciences. He said that when he went to school, there were four boys in his class*** to study nursing, and now there are three of them, including himself, in the capital's second-class hospitals. Yang Gong said, "I can do it alone when changing a bed or turning over a larger patient, which female nurses usually do with several people, and I'm more comfortable with some medical equipment."
The deputy director of the Corps Hospital's nursing department said male nurses are more prominent than women in terms of energy and physical strength. The Corps Hospital will also propose to recruit 10 male nurses this year.
It is understood that the autonomous region's people's hospital currently has nearly 1,000 nurses, of which there is only one male nurse; Corps Hospital has 302 nurses, only two male nurses.
According to the Director of Nursing Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Medical Sciences, Wang Meixin, the hospital's existing 11 male nurses are currently assigned to the emergency center, operating room and other physical requirements of the higher at the same time less contact with the patient's department. This year, the neurosurgery department designated male nurses, the hospital plans to recruit 8 to 10 male nurses. With the development of modern nursing, there will be more and more male nurses coming into general departments.
Student views A good choice for employment
Zhang Xiaolong, who will graduate from a medical school in the mainland this year, came to the Corps hospital from Hebei with nine male students for an internship. He said, the class of 150 people, 75 people are male, most male students are doing this specialty. The students think that now the employment pressure is so big, boys study nursing is a good choice to solve the basic rice bowl.
And related information shows that the proportion of male nurses in the nursing team abroad is much higher than in China. For example, in Australia, male nurses accounted for 8.7% of the total registered nurses in 1999; male nurses accounted for 5.4% of the total registered nurses in the United States in 2000; male nurses accounted for 10.21% of the total registered nurses in the United Kingdom in 2002. Domestic statistics show that in our country's nursing force, the proportion of men is less than 1%.
Patient Attitude Won't Mind Nurse's Gender
"The Ministry of Health requires hospitals to have a bed-to-nurse ratio of 1:0.4, and it's safe to say that most of the hospitals can't meet this standard. On the one hand, there is a lack of resources for male nurses, and at the same time, it is difficult to change social attitudes." Director Wang Meixin said, "We hope more male nurses will join our team."
19, the reporter in the autonomous region of the People's Hospital randomly interviewed patients and their families on the views of male nurses, they almost all said that as long as the attitude is good, good nursing skills, will not mind the nurse is male or female.