Nursing a gender
Keith Waddell Third-year student nurse at Lothian College of Health Studies
Keith Waddell is fed up with being asked why, as a man, he went into nursing and wants an end to all talk of ‘male’ nurses
Men make up less than 10 per cent of the nursing workforce yet hold half the management posts (1). Many of us are aware of this and perhaps it is the reason that men within nursing get such a bad name from female colleagues.
Nursing Standard.
9, 30, 62-62.
doi: 10.7748/ns.9.30.62.s70
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