School of Health Sciences, Campbelltown Campus, Western Sydney University, Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia.
School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia.
Nurs Forum. 2021 Apr;56(2):291-297. doi: 10.1111/nuf.12545. Epub 2021 Jan 2.
There still remains a gender divide between men and women when it comes to the provision of nursing care. To date, there is a plethora of literature that describes the barriers men face in the profession. However, there is very little with regard to the patients' qualitative experience of male nursing/midwife care.
The aim of this study was to describe the experiences of women being cared for by a male nurse/midwife.
Inductive content analysis was undertaken on blog posts from an online parenting site as they related to the care provided by male nurses and midwives.
A total of 128 blog posts were identified. There were two themes identified-feeling comfortable and feeling cared for. There was a polarized view to the care provided by male nurses and male midwives with respondents either flatly refusing, or wanting a preference as to which gender provided care, to others expressing it was the best care they ever experienced. The provision of care was where the blog posts differed significantly. There were mixed emotions from angered embarrassment at the thought of a male nurse/midwife providing intimate care to being Ok with nonintimate care such as the taking of vital signs.
It would appear from the blog posts analyzed that the assimilation of men into clinical areas generally seen as the purview of female nurses is slowly becoming accepted although further research as to the patient perspective of male nursing/midwifery care in these areas is needed.
在提供护理方面，仍然存在着男性和女性之间的性别差距。迄今为止，有大量文献描述了男性在该职业中面临的障碍。然而，关于患者对男性护士/助产士护理的定性体验，几乎没有什么文献。
本研究旨在描述女性接受男护士/助产士护理的体验。
对在线育儿网站上的博客文章进行归纳性内容分析，这些文章与男护士和助产士提供的护理有关。
共确定了 128 篇博客文章。确定了两个主题——感到舒适和得到关怀。受访者对男护士和男助产士提供的护理存在两极化的看法，要么断然拒绝，要么希望优先选择提供护理的性别，要么表示这是他们经历过的最好的护理。护理的提供是博客文章差异显著的地方。从想到男护士/助产士提供私密护理时的愤怒和尴尬，到对非私密护理（如生命体征测量）感到满意，情绪复杂。
从分析的博客文章中可以看出，男性逐渐被同化到通常被认为是女性护士专属领域的临床领域，这一现象正在慢慢被接受，但需要进一步研究患者对男性在这些领域的护理看法。
