2.  Nursing
› Nurses are the protectors, promoters, and
optimizers of health and
abilities, caregivers, comforters of ill and
injured, and advocate the care of
individuals, families, and communities.

3.  Helping Humanity
 Caregiving
 Economical phase
› Satisfactory Salary
› High Demand
› Health Insurance
 Environmental phase
› New Technology
› High Responsibilities
 Job Opportunities
 Self Respect

4.  Gender
Discrimination
 Stereotyping
 Extra Role Strain
 Few in the Field
 Giving care
Female Patients
 Family Pressures

5.  History of Nursing
 Stereotypes
 Patient Issues

6.  Medieval Era
› (500 – 1000) Nurses as Servant
 Late middle age
› (1000 – 1500) crusades stimulator of military nursing order
› Nursing Saints
Considered nursing their religious duty and gave outstanding service
› St. Hildegard (1098 – 1179) – Wrote books on Medicine
(Jaundice, dysentery, lung diseases)
› St Elizabeth of Hungry (1207 – 1231) – Cared for the poor and sick
› St. Catherine of Sienna (1347 – 1380) – Looked after Plague affected
people. Carried a lantern from home to hospital St Isabel (Queen
Elizabeth of Portugal)
› Founded a hospital for the poor and nursed the sick. Introduced the tent
type hospitals and ambulances for the injured on the battlefield St
Elizabeth
http://www.slideshare.net/Nimmirobins/hon-midieval-era

7. Florence Nightingale
12 May 1820 - 13 August 1910
Pioneering modern nursing
She served as a nurse in the Crimean War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

8.  Feminine Like
 Homosexuals
 Low achievers

9.  Female patients
› Intimate care
› Personal space
 Intimidating

10.  Profession of Caregiving and protecting Humanity
 No Gender segregation
 Balance of male and female nurses
 Despite the challenges in the past, men are
entering nursing programs

11.  Bleich, M., MacWilliams, B., & Schmidt, B. (2013, January). Men in nursing.
Retrieved from
http://www.nursingcenter.com/lnc/cearticle?tid=1488752
 Men in nursing. (2008, June 1). Journal of Nursing: American Society of
Registered Nurses. Retrieved from
http://www.asrn.org/journal-nursing/374-men-in-nursing.html
 Graphs reference
http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=Icu+RN+Week&l1=19973
 History of Nursing
http://www.slideshare.net/Nimmirobins/hon-midieval-era
 Florence Nightingale
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale

12. Thank you for time and
being a patience audience.