Should We Minimize or Accentuate the Gender Element in Nursing Interactions?
by If you’re a nurse, you know something of the variety of life situations into which nurses are positioned to speak and intervene. Nurses are often …
Tag: professional identity
Men in Nursing Should Be Just as Willing as Women to Do the “Dirty Jobs” Like Wound and Ostomy Care
In August, I wrote about misidentification of non-physician health care professionals (HCPs) as physicians and how it may relate to the establishment of professional identity …
Personal Reflections on Gender Bias in Nursing Education
The other day, I received my October 2019 print edition of American Nurse Today, the official journal of American Nurses Association. In the Healthy Nurse …
Observing a New Man in Nursing Taking an Early Step Toward Establishing a Professional Identity
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the importance of establishing a professional identity as a man in nursing. In that post, I related my …
Establishing Professional Identity as Men in Nursing
Throughout the years, patients and their families have mistaken non-physician health care professionals (HCPs) for physicians. In this post, I relate my own experience with …