Abstract

This was a study of the preferences of men patients for the sex of the nurse desired to meet their physical, social, spiritual, and emotional needs. The purposes of the study were: (1) to identify the hospital situations in which a male nurse is preferred to give care, (2) to provide information that could be used in the utilization of male personnel, and (3) to provide information that could be used to possibly provide for better fulfillment of the needs of male patients.

The descriptive survey was chosen as the method of study. A questionnaire of thirty-five hospital situations was given to fifty white, adult, hospitalized male patients in two selected private hospitals.

It was found that of the thirty-five situations on the questionnaire, a male nurse was slightly preferred in four of these. This was arrived at by tabulating the choices numerically and in percentage and using eighty to one-hundred percent to denote a definite preference, sixty-five to seventy-nine percent to mean a slight preference, and fifty to sixty-four percent being referred to as little or no preference. The four situations that showed a slight male nurse preference were: to give an enema, to shave the face, to take the temperature rectally, and to give the bed pan. These were all in the physical need area. There were no male nurse preferences in any of the situations related to social, spiritual, or emotional needs.

It was concluded that: (1) male nurses are not preferred to meet needs other than certain physical ones, and (2) the male patient prefers a female nurse in three and three-fourths as many situations as he does a male nurse.

LLU Discipline

Nursing

Department

Nursing

School

Graduate School

First Advisor

Matilda Anabelle Mills

Second Advisor

R. Maureen Maxwell

Third Advisor

Vernon W. Shafer

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Degree Level

M.S.

Year Degree Awarded

1965

Date (Title Page)

8-1965

Language

English

Library of Congress/MESH Subject Headings

Nurses, Male; Nurse-Patient Relations.

Type

Thesis

Page Count

vii; 63

Digital Format

PDF

Digital Publisher

Loma Linda University Libraries

Usage Rights

This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has granted Loma Linda University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other copyrights.

Collection

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Collection Website

http://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/

Repository

Loma Linda University. Del E. Webb Memorial Library. University Archives

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