Men in the Nursing Profession

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This paper explains that the aging population has caused a crisis in the healthcare profession and that society needs more nurses. After reviewing the current state of the nursing in the United States, the writer argues that one way to increase the population of nurses is to increase the number of men in the profession.

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"Nursing is a vocation as well as a profession, and it would be tragic if men who felt the 'calling' eschewed entering nursing as a profession because it was perceived as a female-only employment. Also, as nurses often present the human face of the medical profession to patients, and that face should resemble the patient not simply in race or ethnicity, but also of gender. Consider the psychological as well as physical state of a young boy who was unable to save his sister in a car crash they were both involved in, even after his father said he was in charge of her 'like a little man'-would not a male nurse be more ideally equipped to deal with the ensuing confusion faced by this young, male child?"

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