A mixed methods review of male nursing students' challenges during nursing education and strategies to tackle these challenges

A Younas, A Sundus, H Zeb, J Sommer - Journal of Professional Nursing, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Calls to action have been placed for recruitment of more men to address
nursing shortage and to achieve a better balance and diversity in workforce. Studies also …

Nursing practice in modern healthcare environments: A systematic review of attributes, characteristics, and demonstrations

CM Smith, CE Horne, H Wei - Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim To identify Attributes, Characteristics and Demonstrations of nursing practice
from both nurses' and people perspectives in today's healthcare environments. A secondary …

“I prefer a male nurse to a female nurse”: patients' preference for, and satisfaction with nursing care provided by male nurses at the Komfo Anokye teaching hospital

HI Budu, EM Abalo, VB Bam, DO Agyemang, S Noi… - BMC nursing, 2019 - Springer
Background Although most male nurses join the profession for self-actualisation, the cultural
and societal stereotyping of male nurses as “He-Man”,“gay” and “troublemakers”, and their …

Experiences of and satisfaction with care provided by male nurses: A convergent mixed‐method study of patients in medical surgical units

A Younas, A Sundus - Journal of advanced nursing, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To understand, comprehensively, patients' experiences of and satisfaction with care
provided by male nurses in medical surgical units. Background Patients' positive …

Inpatient satisfaction with nursing care in a backward region: a cross-sectional study from northwestern China

J Zhang, L Yang, X Wang, J Dai, W Shan, J Wang - BMJ open, 2020 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives The aim of the study was to examine the level of patient satisfaction with nursing
care and identify the factors affecting satisfaction from the inpatient's perspective in a …

Caring behaviors of male nurses: A descriptive qualitative study of patients' perspectives

A Sundus, A Younas - Nursing Forum, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Caring is mostly considered a characteristic of women and men are considered
hard‐hearted. In the nursing profession, female nurses are considered more caring than …

Does the gender of nurses matter to patients? A qualitative analysis of gender preferences of patients

AO Asante, KA Korsah, C Amoako - SAGE Open Medicine, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: This study argues that the gender of a nurse could give patients the emotional
and psychological support they need in their healing process. Nonetheless, in many …

Evaluation of nurses' job engagement as an outcome of experienced compassion in the workplace, using the lens of affective event theory

M Nadim, MA Zafar - SAGE Open, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined an integrated model encompassing supervisor undermining,
experienced compassion, state optimism, regulatory emotional self-efficacy, and job …

Investigating patients' attitudes toward receiving care from an opposite‐gender nurse

S Sharifi, S Valiee, B Nouri, S Vatandost - Nursing Forum, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background The imbalance in nurse‐to‐patient ratio and limited physical space may lead to
care provision by a nurse of the opposite gender. On the other hand, the relationship with …

Factors influencing patient experience in hospital wards: a systematic review

T Guan, X Chen, J Li, Y Zhang - BMC nursing, 2024 - Springer
Background Patient experience plays an essential role in improving clinical effectiveness
and patient safety. It's important to identify factors influencing patient experience and to …