Nursing: Why Not Men?

"Men today accounts for about 5% of all RNs working in the U." (Poliafico). Nursing is a profession in the healthcare field, which focuses on nurturing personal care. The United States currently lacks testosterone (androgen) in the field of care. This theme is what many people have thought of in their lives at least once. Some people think that care is a career for women, others think that this is an option for designated careers other than gender. In any case, the world is beginning to accept the lack of concern for men.

Before modern care, men were nurses, not women. The oldest nurse school was founded in India in about 250 BC. Particularly for men, because women are considered not as pure as men, women's participation is not allowed 4. During the plague, the Christian Brotherhood takes care of the sick and fills the dead. St. Benedict enacted the Benedictine Care Order and the Catholic Church appointed the Order Hospital 5. During the war, it was common for men to apply as a nurse. During the American Civil War, the famous poet Walt Whitman volunteered as a nurse.

In the 1980s, World War II changed nursing job. The first nurse in the early days of the Christian church was a woman's butler, Phoebe. Phoebe takes care of men and women, and 323 A. D hospital construction began in all the cathedral towns. A hospital larger than nursing specialty at the end of the 19th century established a nursing school attracting ambitious women from the background of the working class. - "Nursing is defined as the protection, promotion and optimization of health and capacity, the prevention of diseases and injuries, the promotion of healing, the reduction of pain by diagnosis and treatment of human reactions, and personal, family, group, community and population Proposal of care for. A woman, particularly recognized as a professional nurse