Lived Experiences of Novice Male Nurses in Taiwan.

PURPOSE: Nursing remains a female-dominated profession around the world. The masculinity and male identity of men who choose nursing careers is questioned by the general public in many countries. Few studies report the situation of novice male nurses at their first year. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experience of novice male nurses when they first enter the workplace. DESIGN AND METHOD: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted using purposive and snowball sampling for recruitment. Fourteen participants, 21 to 25 years old, were recruited, all of whom had at least 5 months of work experience. On average, in-depth, face-to-face interviews lasted 1 hour, with more than one follow-up telephone interview per participant. FINDINGS: The following six themes emerged from the transcribed verbatim data based on content analysis: choosing appropriate work departments based on personality and needs, facing the pressure and frustration of independent work, getting help, obtaining acceptance among female cliques, reflecting on the relationship between gender and profession, and concerns about dependents and financial needs. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE: This study addresses masculinity issues and gender stereotyping. In addition, male nurses were very concerned about their career options and development and the likelihood of promotion. This research not only has implications for better understanding of novice male nurses' needs and the challenges in their social life but also makes suggestions for nursing practice to attract and keep more male nurses in the nursing profession. The results illustrate how culturally congruent nursing care can be achieved when we more concern male nurses' role pressure and address traditional gender sensitivity to promote male nurses' career development.

Impacto econômico do absenteísmo de enfermagem por doença em um hospital universitário do Rio de Janeiro-RJ / Economic impact of nursing absenteeism due to ilness in a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro-RJ

Trata-se de uma pesquisa documental, retrospectiva de fonte secundária,que adota uma abordagem quantitativa descritiva-exploratória. A partir da constatação de altos índices de absenteísmo nas unidades hospitalares, despertou-se o interesse em estudar os custos diretos das doenças ocupacionais que levam aos afastamentos e seu impacto econômico para o orçamento de recursos humanos de um hospital universitário do Rio de Janeiro. Neste contexto, definiu-se como objeto de estudo, o impacto econômico do absenteísmo por doença na equipe de enfermagem e, como objetivos: identificar as causas prevalentes de afastamentos no hospital universitário, de acordo com Classificação Internacional de Doenças e Problemas Relacionados a Saúde (CID-10); estimar os custos diretos mínimos das doenças que afastaram o trabalhador de enfermagem; estimar o custo real aproximado do absenteísmo relacionado a 1 (um) dia de trabalho prestado pelos trabalhadores de enfermagem, com projeção de 1 (um) mês e 1(um) ano numa visão operacional do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS). Foi utilizada uma amostra estratificada de prontuários dos profissionais de saúde da equipe de enfermagem (enfermeiros e técnicos de enfermagem), a partir do seguinte critério de inclusão: profissionais de enfermagem concursados com afastamento no ano de 2010 e com diagnóstico médico determinante do afastamento, definido claramente. Para a coleta das informações foi feita a apreciação dos documentos arquivados no Serviço de Saúde do Trabalhador do hospital estudado e contou com a apreciação de especialistas médicos relativos aos grupos de diagnósticos estudados, orientados por roteiros criados pela pesquisadora. Os dados foram analisados e armazenados no programa Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) versão 15 e no editor Microsoft excel 2003...

It is a documentary research, retrospective from secondary source , which adopts a quantitative descriptive- exploratory aprouch. From the observation of high rates of absenteeism in hospital the interest in studying the direct costs of occupational diseases that lead cleareances and their economic impact to the human resources budget of a university hospital in Rio de Janeiro. In this context, it was defined as an object of study the economic impact of sickness absenteeism among nursing and the following objectives: to identify the prevalent causes of absenteeism at the university hospital studied, according to the Internacional Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10), to estimate the minimum directs costs of the diseases conditions that lead absenteeism to the nursing worker, to estimate the real cost of absenteeism related to one day of work provided by the nursing staff, with projection for one month and one year in operational vision of the Unified Health System (SUS). We used a stratified sample of health professionals records representing nursing staff (nurses and nursing technicians) according to the following inclusion criteria: gazetted professional nursing, with absences in 2010 with medical diagnosis, clearly defined. For data go thing, we used the files the university hospital worker health service and had the appraisal of medical experts for the diagnostic groups studied, according to scripts created by the researcher. Data were analyzed and stored in the program Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 15 and Microsoft excel 2003 in the editor...

The shortage of registered nurses and some new estimates of the effects of wages on registered nurses labor supply: a look at the past and a preview of the 21st century.

The US and many other countries are in the midst of a severe shortage of registered nurses (RNs). Labor supply models for currently trained RNs are estimated by gender and marital status using the 1992, 1996, and 2000 data from the National Sample Surveys of Registered Nurses. This analysis extends earlier work by Link (Res. Labor Econ. 13 (1992) 287) which provided labor supply estimates for 1960, 1970, 1977, 1980, 1984, and 1988. Since the methodology and variables employed in the present study are the same as those used by Link, the empirical literature on RN labor supply is brought together for the last 40 years. Moreover, comparisons are made with other studies in the literature of the labor supply of nurses and females in the general population. Results for the key variables are consistent over the different data sets and consistent with earlier work by Link. The RN's own wage had minor effects on both labor force participation and hours worked given participation. The RN wage is still an important variable since it has a significant and positive effect on the number of people who enter first-degree nursing programs in the US. These results are important to policy-makers in light of the current shortage of RNs.

Gender differences in career progress in nursing: towards a non-essentialist structural theory.

This paper briefly reviews the literature on gender differences in career progress in nursing. It argues that current explanations for these differences are essentialist in nature. Aspects of the literature on the labour market and neo-Weberian closure theories are critically reviewed and a synthesis of these two domains is proposed. The paper argues that this synthesis can provide a non-essentialist explanatory framework for gender differences in career progress and provides a foundation for ongoing empirical work. The exercise points to the importance of geographical mobility and its use as an exclusionary criterion in career progress. In the context of the nursing labour market this process may serve to maintain structural gender bias in professional nursing.