| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 生死學研究所 === 98 === "Nursing," a career field is usually recognized for women only due to the social stereotypes. Nevertheless, with changes both in social attitude and medical needs, a growing number of male nurses join into this nursing field. These male nurses who survived from the women nursing care field, have thus bravely broken all the traditional prejudices and built up a bright future through their professional growth, which is worthy to be inferred further.
This study explores the topic of male nurses care professional growth process, trying to demonstrate their subjective experience of life from their nursing career. The narrative research method of the qualitative research is adopted. Through two male nurses in-depth interviews, this study aims at setting up the original text according to their self-narrative life experiences. Then [ the whole-content] represents the stories of their life and [categories-content] of their professional growth experience are analyzed.
The conclusions of this study were as following: first, they find out their won identity by accepting and recognizing who they are. Second, male nurses have a nature interaction with doctors. Third, the interactive relationship between male and female nurses are more like brotherhood and sisterhood. Fourth, by the maternity practical training, male nurses learn the gender care. Fifth, through experiencing the patient''s death, male nurses enhanced their professional skills. Sixth, they regard the physical contact with women patients as a kind of "Body and Technology". Seventh, Male nurse does not affect it the role function which acts in the family.
The study is expected to offer a new horizon of the understanding, by the description of subjective experiences of male nurses, both to the nursing field and nursing peers while viewing the male nurses.
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