8 Things Male Nurses Need to Know about the Profession

Men have been a part of the nursing profession for centuries. The latest statistics show they comprise just under ten percent of the nursing workforce. While this may seem small, the total percentage of men in nursing has grown steadily over the past decade.

As the minority, men must recognize the barriers and challenges they will face when entering the nursing workforce, and the great news is that these are often minimal.

Here are eight things men working as nurses need to know when adjusting to the profession:

1. Society’s expectations
2. Losing your man card
3. Men are not compassionate
4. Can I get a lift?
5. Doctor drop-out
6. It’s all in the name
7. Unequal pay? Unequal opportunity?
8. Patient refusal

You have complete control over how you respond and react to someone’s opinion and perception of you, a man in the profession of nursing. Be the positive, proactive, and confident liaison between what they know, what they should know, and who you truly are.

HorizonHealthcare Institute (HHI) is a culmination of nurse educators and business elites who have come to together to impart knowledge and to cultivate confident nurturing nurses who will be change agents in the ever changing field of healthcare. It is our core belief that knowledge is the fundamental tool required in order to garner success. It is this belief that has allowed HHI to continue to be a vehicle of success for students whom are motivated, driven and open to the possibilities.

HHI boasts over 100+ years of combined nursing experience across 3 campuses. Our campuses are conveniently located in: Fort Myers, Port Charlotte & Melbourne Florida.

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Your Failure to Plan Doesn't Constitute an Emergency On My Part: Mandatory Overtime

When we consider compulsory – or constrained – extra minutes, our psyches may backpedal to the day preceding worker's parties, when individuals in manufacturing plants were consistently working for what seems like forever, for a long time, in perilous and obnoxious conditions. Be that as it may, compulsory extra time is not a relic of times gone by for a few medical caretakers in Canada. It's a reality. 

Nobody contends that units must be staffed – there must be a sure number of medical caretakers to keep up a protected level of patient care. However, what happens when there is no staff to cover the following movement? 

At to start with, bosses typically request volunteers who might want to work extra minutes. Yet, what does the doctor's facility do when no medical attendant strides forward? On the off chance that they can't call for outside help (private organizations), their lone alternative might be to weight medical caretakers into working another move or, to gruffly tell nurture that they should remain. This is compulsory additional time, in spite of the fact that they may not utilize those words. 

While the overseers are taking care of their staffing issues, they are creating an entire host of issues for their medical attendants who need or need to go home – they may have childcare issues, classes to go to, senior relatives to look after, essential arrangements to keep, or they may need to get some genuinely necessary rest.

Horizon Healthcare Institute (HHI) is a culmination of nurse educators and business elites who have come to together to impart knowledge and to cultivate confident nurturing nurses who will be change agents in the ever changing field of healthcare. It is our core belief that knowledge is the fundamental tool required in order to garner success. It is this belief that has allowed HHI to continue to be a vehicle of success for students whom are motivated, driven and open to the possibilities. 

HHI boasts over 100+ years of combined nursing experience across 3 campuses. Our campuses are conveniently located in: Fort Myers, Port Charlotte & Melbourne Florida.

Horizon Healthcare Institute (HHI) is the school that cares. The educators at HHI have spent countless hours perfecting our programs so that you may excel. We genuinely have a vested interest in helping you reach your career goals; so much so we have implemented a process that only requires that you simply apply yourself in any one of our programs. By simply applying yourself and taking the necessary steps that we have outlined we know that you will certainly obtain your certification and/or licensure---TRUST THE PROCESS.  

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