title: Are men taking over the nursing profession?
abstract: Although men are a minority in the nursing profession, many men obtain senior positions and hence their motivation for becoming registered nurses is often questioned. International nursing literature is used to clarify why men may want to become nurses and to suggest possible reasons for the gender inequities in senior nursing appointments.
authors.affiliation: University of South Australia.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Foreman
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D004645:Empathy; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D009727:Nurses, Male / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011209:Power, Psychological