Feeling like a minority--being a male student nurse
Jones, T.
Practising Midwife 14(2): 21
2011
ISSN/ISBN: 1461-3123 PMID: 21388009 Document Number: 650323
This short paper seeks to point out some of the real personal and professional issues of being a male student nurse (a minority group) within a female-dominated profession. Tom (a student nurse) shares some of his experiences of carrying out his mother and baby placement. The pre-placement anxiety is touched on, alongside the actual personal and professional impact of being present at a birth is discussed.