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Training more men in the nursing profession means patients will benefit from a broader care perspective<\/h3>\n

By Kate Hunger<\/em><\/h6>\n

Miguel Salazar remembers how safe and loved nurses made him feel when he was a little boy recovering in the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was 8 years old, I experienced something devastating,\u201d he said. \u201cI needed two blood transfusions, and I was in the hospital for more than month. One nurse \u2014 Dina \u2014 she stayed with me. She made
\nsure I was comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

That reassuring sense of being cared for is something Salazar, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing student in the School of Nursing, plans to share with his future patients. Salazar is vice president of the Nursing Student Council and president of Men in Nursing, an open charter campus organization that welcomes men to the nursing profession but is open to anyone. Salazar aims to grow the organization, which currently has 24 active members.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal is also to go out into the community and show that men are just as strong as women,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can also provide quality health care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Salazar is poised to enter a profession in which the representation of men has dramatically changed over time. Men\u2019s representation in nursing was robust in the 1800s but had declined dramatically by the early 1900s, when many nursing schools admitted women only. The number of men in the nursing profession has steadily increased since the \u201970s in the U.S. The enrollment of male students in UT Health San Antonio\u2019s School of Nursing has climbed over the decades as well.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019d rather have a profession where even if I\u2019m having a bad day, I can make someone else\u2019s day a little bit better.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n
\u2014 Christian Doll, MHA, RN, BSN, CPN<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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A welcome tour of duty <\/strong><\/p>\n

Nursing was not a career field Assistant Professor\/ Clinical James Cleveland, PhD, MSN, RN<\/a>, would have considered before the military identified it for him. Cleveland had enlisted in the U.S. Army after high school and separated to attend college to become a commissioned officer. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nursing Corps and embarked on what he calls a \u201cfully transformational tour of duty.\u201d He retired as a lieutenant colonel in 2009 after 28 years of combined service.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Men have] been in nursing for a long time but our numbers have been low,\u201d said Cleveland, faculty sponsor for the Men in Nursing organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cI support all in nursing,\u201d said Cleveland, who recalls being one of five male students in a class of 150 when he earned his BSN in the late \u201980s. \u201cAll these young folks are asking us to do is teach them how to take care of people. I believe my place in time is to be here for these groups.\u201d<\/p>\n

Job security, variety, flexibility<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assistant Professor\/Clinical Kyle Ransom, PMHNP, a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner with seven years in advanced practice nursing, believes that younger generations are more open-minded than older generations and are willing to take on roles that haven\u2019t traditionally been associated with men. Nursing provides job security and emotional rewards, he said, as well as a variety of career paths.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think more men absolutely should consider nursing. There are so many leadership roles in nursing that I think a lot of men would find it appealing,\u201d Ransom said. \u201cA lot of boys grow up wanting to be police or firefighters. I think nurses should be in that category. I think more men would want to pursue this if they knew how versatile the nursing role can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Christian
School of Nursing 2011 alumnus Christian Doll served as the first president of UT Health San Antonio\u2019s Men in Nursing organization.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The profession provides the added benefit of belonging to a group committed to the shared purpose of caring for others.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin nursing, once you are here you feel part of the group \u2014 you are part of this body of people who are here to help others. There\u2019s a sense of community and belonging that goes along with that that\u2019s really cool,\u201d said Ransom.<\/p>\n

Nursing wasn\u2019t something Christian Doll, MHA, RN, BSN, CPN, had considered until he had his practicum experience with the National Marrow Donor Registry while earning a Master of Health Administration. He was inspired by that experience and enrolled in the BSN program, graduating in 2011. He has spent his career in pediatrics, with a focus on oncology and bone marrow transplant.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not on my radar whatsoever, but thankfully that changed,\u201d said Doll, who was the first president of Men in Nursing. \u201cThere is a need, and it\u2019s a great career for anybody. I\u2019d rather have a profession where even if I\u2019m having a bad day, I can make someone else\u2019s day a little bit better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nursing has given Doll the flexibility to spend more time with his family, even as he travels from his home in the Dallas area to his job on an acute care resource team at a children\u2019s hospital in San Francisco, where he works one week on, one week off, averaging six to seven workdays every two weeks.<\/p>\n

A career in compassion<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI always encourage students, both male and female, to volunteer at the clinics so they can see what marginalization does to people in the health care system,\u201d said Associate Professor\/Clinical Peter Guarnero, PhD, RN, MSc<\/a>, director of nursing for the Pride Community Clinic. \u201cI am always glad to see more men in the classroom because I feel they have something to offer not only to their classmates but also to the patient populations they choose to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guarnero began his nursing career with an associate degree. He left the profession to attend seminary but eventually returned, inspired by nuns he had met who served as midwives in Mississippi. But while pursuing his BSN, he was told by his program\u2019s dean that his goal of becoming a nurse midwife was an inappropriate choice for a male.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was when I chose to go into mental health,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me it\u2019s been a struggle not seeing enough men in nursing. When I did my BSN, there were only two men in the class. In graduate school most of the class were all women. I think I was the only male in my PhD cohort,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Guarnero has seen the numbers of male nursing students increase during his time at UT Health San Antonio, and he encourages all who want to care for the most vulnerable to consider the profession.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do science; we care for people,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat\u2019s important is that sense of compassion \u2014 that sense of wanting to give to other people so that they feel safe and feel they are being heard.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more about male nurses in history, visit uthscsa.edu\/nursing\/about\/light-future\/male-nurses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Male nurses by the numbers<\/h2>\n
\"School
School of Nursing students James Hemmi (left), Miguel Salazar (center) and John Cruz (right) participated in the 2022 Walk to End Alzheimer\u2019s hosted by the Alzheimer\u2019s Association.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>, in 2022, men made up about 12% of all registered nurses, 11.1% of licensed practical and vocational nurses and 11.2% of nurse practitioners.<\/p>\n

Those figures show a growth trajectory since 1970, when only about 2.7% of registered nurses were men, based on U.S. Census Bureau data<\/a>. By 2011, the percentage had climbed to 9.6%. Male representation across all levels of nursing has increased by 59% in the last decade, according to NurseJournal<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Men\u2019s participation in the nursing profession varies across specialties. For instance, more than 40% of nurse anesthetists are men, according to the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

UT Health San Antonio\u2019s School of Nursing has consistently enrolled a higher percentage of males than are represented in the nursing workforce and has awarded an increasing percentage of degrees to men over the decades. For example, 10.7% of degrees conferred from 1971 to 1979 were awarded to men, compared to 19.7% from 2020 to 2022, according to the university\u2019s Office of Institutional Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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