NURS 285 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Lgbt Stereotypes, Battle Axe, Erysipelas
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Evans, j (2004) men nurses: a historical and feminist perspective, journal of advanced nursing, 47, 321-328 http://dc8qa4cy3n. scholar. serialssolutions. com/? sid=google&auinit=j&aulast=evans&atitle=men+nurses: The history of nursing is almost exclusively a history of women"s accomplishments, despite the fact that men have worked as nurses since the beginning. There were also non military nursing orders such as brothers of st anthony (cared for victims of erysipelas, a disfiguring skin disease) The nurses act of 1919 put men on a different list (they were initially banned from nursing, but were later allowed) thus establishing nursing as the first self- determining (free to make own government) all female occupation. Glavin in 1937 (usa created similar society in 1971, canada never did: this association wanted to make nursing more equal for males. Common nursing male stereotypes: homosexual, or anomalies. Many schools of nursing refused to admit men (except training in psychiatric nursing, where their strength was sometimes needed)
