The male nursing student
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The male nursing student

Vivian Wood Faculty, Nursing, University of Western Ontario. Dianne Brennan Campbell is Teaching Master, St Lawrence College, Ontario

Professor Vivian Wood and Dianne Brennan Campbell address issues facing male student nurses

In today’s world, male nurses constitute less than two per cent of licensed registered nurses.1 This has not always been the situation. Male nurses were in the forefront until the nineteenth century. To appreciate this decline, one must briefly trace the historical developments of the profession.

Nursing Management. 9, 1, 25-27. doi: 10.7748/nm.9.1.25.s17

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