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He decided to become a nurse
Mrázková, Vendula ; Dvořáčková, Jana (advisor) ; Kobová, Ĺubica (referee)
This diploma thesis "He decided to become a Nurse" discusses men who decided to enter a heavily feminized profession, studied nursing at secondary school or followed up secondary education with higher education - either at a college or in a bachelor's or master's program at a university's medical faculty, and currently work in a medical facility in the Czech Republic as a nurse. Qualitative research conducted with communication partners using semi- structured interviews investigated what was behind this decision to choose a profession that is usually perceived as feminine, what expectations the men had, and whether these expectations were fulfilled or changed during the practice. The results of the work could serve, among other things, also for personnel officers and personnel of health facilities or head nurses of hospitals to understand the problem of shortage or turnover of male nurses.
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Profession of General Nurse at the present time.
FÜRST, Zdeněk
The submitted bachelor's thesis deals with the issue of men who currently work as male nurses. Its objectives were to identify the opinion of nurses of the men's role in nursing, whether the existing conditions had any impact on job performance of male nurses, and what problems men encountered when working as male nurses. Our research was carried out by combination of qualitative and quantitative research techniques. Within the qualitative technique we used a semi-structured interview with male nurses (10 responders) while in quantitative research we used a non-standardized questionnaire answered by nurses (101 responders). The selection of responders was intentional. The results of the quantitative research have shown that nurses perceive the presence of male nurses positively and that they appreciate their personality traits and work capabilities. The majority of female responders (72%) agree that men do have their place in nursing, and they also state that patients accept male nurses in the same way as they accept nurses (80%). The results of qualitative research have shown that the majority of male nurses are satisfied with their job and that work with people and help to people make them happy. The vast majority of them have never experienced any condemnation in relation to the performance of their job. All responders are well accepted by patients. Their work performance is affected by their team, patient's condition, lack of personnel and personal factors. When performing their job they encounter problems, such as psychical and time demands, lack of personnel, communication and certain procedures. Some responders commented on financial undervaluation of their job. We may say that the research has arrived at the conclusion that the field of nursing is persistently facing problems such as gender stereotype, financial undervaluation and lack of personnel, and these are the factors that may affect not just the number of men working in the field of nursing, but also the quality of nursing care as such.
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