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Stereotypes: The Negative Effect on Male Nurses

Jaime Pollack

Mott Community College

Pop Culture

The Effect?

Male nurses are something to be laughed at.

  • Prejudice patients (especially elderly women)
  • "Heavy lifting"
  • Pay grade, is it worth it?

Popular costumes

Societal Fix?

Male Nurse Stereotypes

What to do?

  • Start young
  • Break a glass ceiling or two
  • Think before you speak

Childhood

Results?

Kids are taught that men are doctors and women are nurses.

  • Growing nursing field
  • Qualified and competent nurses
  • Either they're not compassionate enough or they're effeminate.
  • They couldn't hack it in medical school.
  • No place will hire a guy as a nurse.

Stereotypes only exist because we let them.

Where do they come from???

References

Angel, handmaiden, battleaxe or whore? A study which examines changes in newly recruited student nurses’ attitudes to gender and nursing stereotypes

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0260691703001539

Nov. 8, 2013

Doctors and Nurses: Stereotypes and Stereotype Change in Interprofessional Education

http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/13561829509047849

Nov. 8, 2013

Flash Cards, Occupations

http://www.kids-pages.com/folders/flashcards/Occupations_1/page1.htm

Nov. 8, 2013

Male Nurse Mocking

http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwINLMvkxrQ

Nov. 21, 2013

O’Lynn, Chad

Men in Nursing: History, Challenges, and Opportunities

2007

Pfeffer, J.

Male Nursing Myths: Are You "Man Enough" to Accept the Challange?

Oct. 9, 2012

Rivas, A.

Male Nurses On TV Continue To Be Emasculated; Stereotypes Translate Into Real-Life Perspectives

Sept. 18, 2013

Where My Male Nurses at???

http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=lm8XKuhOKL0

Nov. 21, 2013

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