Employment prospects for male nurses in Qinhuangdao Health School

Employment Prospects of Male Nurses2009-07-19 18:04 The recruitment of nurses in various hospitals in the capital is in progress. Through interviews on the 19th, reporters found that as a "scarce resource" in the nursing industry, the employment of male nurses The prospects are promising.

Unique advantages: good physical strength and strong endurance

Yang Gong, who is working as a nurse in the ICU Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of the Medical University, is a 2004 student of the Health School. He said that when he was in school, there were only 4 boys in his class studying nursing, and now 3 of them, including himself, are in Grade 2 or above hospitals in the capital. Yang Gong said: "When changing the bed or turning over a larger patient, I can do it alone. Female nurses usually work with several people. I am more comfortable with some medical equipment."

The deputy director of the Nursing Department of the Corps Hospital said that male nurses are more energetic and physically stronger than women. The Corps Hospital will also recruit 10 male nurses this year.

It is understood that there are currently nearly a thousand nurses in the Autonomous Region People's Hospital, including only one male nurse; there are 302 nurses in the Corps Hospital, and only two male nurses.

According to Wang Meixin, director of the Nursing Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of the Medical University, the hospital currently has 11 male nurses, and they are currently assigned to emergency centers, operating rooms and other places that require high physical strength and have less contact with patients. Department. This year the Neurosurgery Department has designated male nurses, and the hospital plans to recruit 8 to 10 more male nurses. With the development of modern nursing, more and more male nurses will enter general departments.

Students’ views: A good choice for employment

Zhang Xiaolong, who will graduate from a medical school in the Mainland this year, and nine male classmates came from Hebei to the Corps Hospital for internship. He said that of the 150 people in the class, 75 were boys, and most of the male students were working in this major. The students believe that with so much employment pressure now, studying nursing is a good choice for boys to find basic jobs.

Relevant data shows that the proportion of male nurses in foreign nurse teams is much higher than that in our country. For example, in Australia, male nurses accounted for 8.7% of the total registered nurses in 1999; in the United States, male nurses accounted for 5.4% of the total registered nurses in 2000; in the United Kingdom, male nurses accounted for 10.21% of the total registered nurses in 2002. Domestic statistics show that among our country’s nursing workforce, men account for less than 1%.

The attitude of patients does not mind the gender of nurses

“The Ministry of Health requires that the bed-nurse ratio in hospitals is 1:0.4. It can be said that most hospitals cannot meet this standard. On the one hand, men There is a shortage of nurse resources, and it is difficult to change social attitudes,” Director Wang Meixin said, “We hope that more male nurses will join our team.”

On the 19th, reporters randomly interviewed patients at the Autonomous Region People’s Hospital. When asked about their views on male nurses, most of them said that as long as they have a good attitude and good nursing skills, they would not mind whether the nurse is male or female.