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COJ Nursing & Healthcare

Sex Discrimination at Nursing in Turkey: To be a Male Nurse

  • Open or Close Mehtap Omac Sonmez*

    Department of Social Work, School of Health, Bitlis Eren University, Turkey

    *Corresponding author: Mehtap Omac Sonmez, Department of Nursing School of Health, ahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University School of Health, Turkey

Submission: November 13, 2017; Published: December 20, 2017

DOI: 10.31031/COJNH.2017.01.000511

ISSN: 2577-2007
Volume1 Issue3

Abstract

Nursing is a professional health care services occupation, in which the professional knowledge and behaviour required to apply the health care in an adequate and qualified manner to the individual, family and community will be provided in protective and curative health services [1]. Sex discrimination by health staff, colleagues and patients is an important problem in during the professionalization of nursing. Male nurses are exposed discrimination and inequalities arise between colleagues in the worldwide [2-4]. The nursing profession has been perceived as a female profession from the time it first emerged in all over the world until the end of the 20th century [2,3].

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