Nursing Department, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Barcelona.
Social and Cultural Department, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra.
Int Nurs Rev. 2019 Dec;66(4):563-570. doi: 10.1111/inr.12541. Epub 2019 Aug 2.
(1) To learn how male nurses view and manage their relationships with families of hospitalized children, in contrast to how they view those established by female nurses. (2) To know if male nurses' relationships with families of hospitalized children are influenced by gender roles and stereotypes.
Relationships are essential in care. Prevailing gender stereotypes suggest that males have more difficulties with relationships than with technical aspects of nursing.
Descriptive qualitative research in a public tertiary hospital September-December 2015. Participants were male nurses who worked in maternal and child health. Purposive sampling, based on criteria of homogeneity-regularity and heterogeneity-diversity. Semi-structured interviews and content analysis.
Twelve male nurses participated. Two key themes emerged. (1) Establishment of professional-family relationship. Male nurses denied that male and female nurses established relationships with families differently, attributing any differences to personality rather than gender. (2) Management of relationships. Male nurses claimed that they set more limits on their relationships with families than female nurses.
Male nurses both disrupted and reproduced gendered stereotypes about relationships with families, revealing new models of masculinity.
Male nurses reject the stereotype that nursing is a women's profession, but they interpret their relationships with families in terms of gender roles and stereotypes.
These findings contribute to understandings of the influence of gender stereotypes in nursing. They support the work of professional associations and labour unions in Spain and other countries to combat gender stereotypes and gender differences in nursing.
（1）了解男护士如何看待和管理他们与住院儿童家庭的关系，与女护士的看法进行对比。（2）了解男护士与住院儿童家庭的关系是否受到性别角色和刻板印象的影响。
关系在护理中至关重要。普遍的性别刻板印象表明，男性在人际关系方面比在护理的技术方面更困难。
2015 年 9 月至 12 月，在一家公立的三级医院进行描述性定性研究。参与者为在母婴健康部门工作的男护士。根据同质性-规律性和异质性-多样性的标准进行了目的性抽样。采用半结构化访谈和内容分析法。
共有 12 名男护士参与。出现了两个关键主题。（1）建立专业家庭关系。男护士否认男护士和女护士与家庭建立关系的方式不同，将任何差异归因于个性而不是性别。（2）关系管理。男护士声称，他们与家庭的关系比女护士更有限制。
男护士既破坏了也复制了与家庭关系有关的性别刻板印象，揭示了新的男性气质模式。
男护士拒绝护理是女性职业的刻板印象，但他们根据性别角色和刻板印象来解释他们与家庭的关系。
这些发现有助于理解性别刻板印象对护理的影响。它们支持西班牙和其他国家的专业协会和工会的工作，以打击护理中的性别刻板印象和性别差异。
