instead of medical school because they couldn’t handle the pressure of medical school or did not have the money. People tend to not educate themselves and will believe everything that they see and hear. Society has poisoned our minds to the extent that when individuals see male nurses they think of all the stereotypes that they have heard and seen while visiting hospitals or clinics, in movies/shows or on social media. The unfair stereotypes that are tarnishing male nurses need to be brought down because in today’s society male nurses are just as responsible and trustworthy as female nurses. Just like female nurses, male nurses are also passionate about their job and should not get judged because of their gender or connected to any stereotypes.
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Amrit, stated how he dropped out of nursing the first time because of how he’d get teased for being “gay” or “feminine” from his friends, however his thrive to become a nurse made him go back to nursing school. Imagine how his mother must have felt finding out her son had to drop out of college due to being teased. Amrit wanted to be a nurse instead of a doctor because of the impact that a male nurse had made in his life when his grandmother was in the hospital fighting for her life. He is currently aiming to work as a registered nurse at Children’s Hospital in Madera or at Saint Agnes Hospital. When asked how can he help a patient differently than a female nurse, Amrit said that male nurses are able to help assist patients in ways that may be hard for female nurses because of their physical strength. Male nurses are able to easily assist individuals in and out of their bed and wheelchair and move them around without asking for help like female nurses. Upon asking Amrit if he had ever been called gay or bullied for choosing nursing as a profession he stated, people said “I was not smart enough to become a doctor, a mama’s boy, gay and a …show more content…
Not just male nurses but many individuals experience discrimination because of their sexual orientation, gender, or profession. According to Male nurses confronting stereotypes and discrimination: Part 1 article it states, that in an interview conducted by Michele Wojciechowski nearly every male nurse had been mistaken at least once for a doctor. Interviewee Carl A. from the article says, “I’ve experienced stereotyping as a male nurse. I’ve had patients tell me they don’t want me to be their nurse. I’ve been called gay. I’ve been told by family members that they don’t want me to care for their loved one.” Carl and many other nurses like Amrit believe that it is important for people to realize that being a male nurse does not prevent them from providing quality care to their patients. Les Rodriguez who’s a clinical nurse specialist/ clinical education specialist pain management at Methodist Richardson Medical Center in Texas states in the article that even though he has never faced discrimination he has come across multiple stereotypes that people think portray male nurses. Rodriguez has heard people saying stereotypes like “all male nurses are gay, men only get into nursing so they can see women naked, men who become nurses are failed doctors, and men go into nursing because it’s easy.” People tend to believe that nursing is easier than
Amrit, stated how he dropped out of nursing the first time because of how he’d get teased for being “gay” or “feminine” from his friends, however his thrive to become a nurse made him go back to nursing school. Imagine how his mother must have felt finding out her son had to drop out of college due to being teased. Amrit wanted to be a nurse instead of a doctor because of the impact that a male nurse had made in his life when his grandmother was in the hospital fighting for her life. He is currently aiming to work as a registered nurse at Children’s Hospital in Madera or at Saint Agnes Hospital. When asked how can he help a patient differently than a female nurse, Amrit said that male nurses are able to help assist patients in ways that may be hard for female nurses because of their physical strength. Male nurses are able to easily assist individuals in and out of their bed and wheelchair and move them around without asking for help like female nurses. Upon asking Amrit if he had ever been called gay or bullied for choosing nursing as a profession he stated, people said “I was not smart enough to become a doctor, a mama’s boy, gay and a …show more content…
Not just male nurses but many individuals experience discrimination because of their sexual orientation, gender, or profession. According to Male nurses confronting stereotypes and discrimination: Part 1 article it states, that in an interview conducted by Michele Wojciechowski nearly every male nurse had been mistaken at least once for a doctor. Interviewee Carl A. from the article says, “I’ve experienced stereotyping as a male nurse. I’ve had patients tell me they don’t want me to be their nurse. I’ve been called gay. I’ve been told by family members that they don’t want me to care for their loved one.” Carl and many other nurses like Amrit believe that it is important for people to realize that being a male nurse does not prevent them from providing quality care to their patients. Les Rodriguez who’s a clinical nurse specialist/ clinical education specialist pain management at Methodist Richardson Medical Center in Texas states in the article that even though he has never faced discrimination he has come across multiple stereotypes that people think portray male nurses. Rodriguez has heard people saying stereotypes like “all male nurses are gay, men only get into nursing so they can see women naked, men who become nurses are failed doctors, and men go into nursing because it’s easy.” People tend to believe that nursing is easier than