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  • Essay / Male Nursing Stereotypes - 1143

    Articles had to be peer-reviewed and have at least one nurse as author. The search was conducted on the EBSCO online research database using the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature database with full text. The concept that nursing is a female-dominated profession is currently being influenced by the media and society at large (Lou, Yu, & Chen, 2010). This is depicted through films with how often you see females as nurses in TV series but you rarely or never see males. When you finally see "the nurse", they are usually portrayed in a negative way, like in this movie. Jack constantly tries to persuade Greg to change careers because he considers it a woman's profession. The constant portrayal of nursing as a female role in films and television shows leads to public misinformation about the male nursing profession. The truth is that men play an equal role in the nursing workforce. David Stanley said in an article that nurses are considered aggressive. (2012) When Greg got angry and started shouting “bomb” on the plane, he had to be arrested. This could be seen as portraying a nurse as an aggressor. This proves that the statement made earlier about men could be considered more aggressive. Quite simply because there is a correlation between male nurses