Dissertations / Theses: 'Female nurses'

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While, Eileen, and n/a. "Female registered nurses and stress : a quantitative analysis." University of Canberra. Professional & Community Education, 1996. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061110.130058.

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This study examines the perceived causes of occupational stress amongst female Registered Nurses working in the clinical setting at both Calvary Public and Calvary Private Hospitals ACT Incorporated. A modified Gray-Toft, Anderson Nursing Stress Scale (1981) was used as the instrument for the research. The questionnaire was modified by the addition of six questions. The questionnaire was distributed to seventy female Registered Nurses. Twenty questionnaires were distributed to staff working within the Private Hospital and fifty to staff in the Public Hospital. Relevant data dating back to 1956 was examined regarding stress and burnout amongst nurses and allied health professionals. The results of this study, not surprisingly, supported the finding of Gray-Toft, Anderson. That is that nursing remains an inherently stressful occupation. Respondents working in both public and private hospitals indicated that Lack of Funding and Death and Dying were considered to be major sources of perceived stress. Registered Nurses working in the Public Hospital perceive higher levels of stress than do those Registered Nurses working within the Private Hospital with respect to relative staffing levels, workload and funding. Comparisons by age group indicated a generally higher reported level for the youngest age group. Comparison of full time versus part time staff indicated a significantly higher level of perceived stress from full time staff. Analysis of reported stress by ward type indicated that staff working in the "medical" groupings experienced higher perceived levels of stress than those working in the "surgical" groupings.

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Fusco, Phylann S. "Hardiness, Coping Style, and Burnout: Relationships in Female Hospital Nurses." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278171/.

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This study investigated relationships among and between psychological hardiness, coping style, and burnout in 101 female hospital nurses. The third generation (50-item) hardiness scale, scored by the revised scoring procedure, was used to measure hardiness and its components. The Maslach Burnout Inventory was used as the measurement for burnout. Coping style was assessed by the COPE Inventory. The components of hardiness, commitment, control, and challenge, were hypothesized to be negative predictors of emotional exhaustion and depersonalization and positive predictors of personal accomplishment. In addition, hardiness and its components were postulated to be positively related to adaptive coping styles and negatively related to maladaptive coping styles. Emotional exhaustion and depersonalization were thought to be related positively to maladaptive coping styles and negatively related to adaptive coping styles. Personal accomplishment was thought to be positively related to adaptive coping style and negatively related to maladaptive coping style. Simple and multiple regressions were used.

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Apellido, Raymundo Mintac. "Night Shift Work and Weight Gain among Female Filipino Nurses." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4497.

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The research problem is the increasing numbers of overweight and obese nurses working the night shift. Study on overweight and obesity among female Filipino nurses has not been conducted. It was important to conduct a research study among female Filipino nurses to find out if there are statistically significant associations between night shift work and weight gain. The purpose of this correlational and cross-sectional study was to determine if there are statistically significant associations between insufficient sleep, abnormal eating patterns, working 12-hour shifts, years of working night shift, age, stress, marital status, nursing units, decreased physical activity, and level of weight gain among female Filipino nurses working the night shift in the hospital. The theoretical base of this study was the locate evidence, evaluate evidence, assess evidence, and informed decision model. The survey questionnaire was constructed and an online survey through Survey Monkey was used to access nurses via a convenience sampling. Data were analyzed using Spearman correlation, multiple regression, and ANOVA. According to study findings, there were significant associations between insufficient sleep, abnormal eating patterns, marital status, 12-hour shifts, number of years working on night shift, and increased in body mass index. The implications for social change include information that nurses can use to better understand the negative implications of night shift work on health. At the organizational level, this study provides information for administrators and nursing leaders that might facilitate change in policies by improving working conditions for nurses.

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Miranda, Deborah Jane Yoder. ""W"-MEN: MALE NURSES' NEGOTIATION OF MASCULINITY IN A PREDOMINANTLY FEMALE PROFESSION." MSSTATE, 2008. http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-11082007-090433/.

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This qualitative study explores male nurses negotiation of masculine gender identities in the nontraditional work of registered nursing. Few registered nurses in the United States are men, and men leave the profession within the first four years after graduation at twice the rate of women. This study builds on previous work by seeking to understand why male nursing graduates of an institution formerly for women only, made the decision to become nurses, how they decided to attend a womens college over a more gender balanced campus experience, and in what ways they negotiate gender identities in the configuration of nursing practice careers. Though others have cautioned that active recruitment of men into nursing could be detrimental to women nurses careers, the current nursing shortage has changed the terrain in health care creating a structural need for both women and men. In contrast to previous studies, which focused on elucidating mechanisms in the workplace that encouraged men nurses rapid ascendancy in the profession, this study explores socialization processes encountered in both educational and workplace settings to gain understanding of the meaning these experiences hold for male nurses in the negotiation of masculinity in a predominantly womens profession. By uncovering the salient meaning that socialization into the professional culture of nursing has for male nurses, an understanding can be gained of how best to recruit and retain men in the profession. Gender theory provides the lens with which structures of gendered educational and work relations among participants in this study were examined. Data were collected from thirty participants using multiple methods, and analyzed using an emergent themes approach. Participants identified themselves as competent, compassionate caregivers. Although relationships with female nursing colleagues were undergirded by horizontal reciprocity, tensions arose when male physicians communicated greater trust with male nurses. Interactions with nursing managers were regarded with caution. The male nurses in this study perceived that they were expected to respond with stoicism in crises, work excessive overtime, and were assigned the most complicated cases. They did not feel they could voice reservations about accepting complicated case assignments as did their female colleagues.

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Miranda, Deborah Yoder. ""W"- men male nurses' negotiation of masculinity in a predominantly female profession /." Diss., Mississippi State : Mississippi State University, 2007. http://library.msstate.edu/etd/show.asp?etd=etd-11082007-090433.

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Kebicz, Rodney B. "The art of caring, male nurses providing personal and intimate care with female patients." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ56129.pdf.

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Fox, Deborah J. "Exploring the impact of undertaking post registration diploma studies upon female nurses' personal biographies." Thesis, Staffordshire University, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.414806.

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Pederson, Gail. "Factors That Enable Later Career Female Nurses to Complete Their Ph.D. Degrees in Nursing." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1329936403.

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Peacock, Joy M. "The relationships between job characteristics, professional practice environment and cardiovascular risk in female hospital nurses." Thesis, Kingston, Ont. : [s.n.], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1314.

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Kocela, Susan J. "An exploration of the HIV/AIDS health promotion activities of public health nurses with female clients." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30949.pdf.

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Chen, Jiamin, and 陈嘉敏. "The working model and work-to-family conflict in female nurses working in Guangzhou City hospital." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/193766.

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Background: Nursing professional, up to today, is still women dominated. The consistent medical reform and scarcity of nursing labor force in China contribute to the high workload and work related pressure. On the other hand, family always plays an essential role in women’s life, especially for Chinese women. They are believed to be the principal person to provide family care. Therefore, female nurses always face the challenges in accomplishing the duty from work and family, and also face the difficulties in balancing the work-related role and family-related role. The incompatibility between work-related role and family-related role leads to work-to-family conflict. It is a kind of interrole conflict to which women are especially sensitive. Work-to-family conflict is defined as a type of interrole conflict which occurs as a result that the work related responsibilities interfere with family life. Literatures suggested that there were many aspects are significantly related to work-family conflict, such as the working model, workload, and social support. And work-family conflict was demonstrated to be associated with lower job satisfaction. Objectives: This study mainly aim to explore the relationship between shift work models and self-perceived work-to-family conflict in Chinese female nurses working in Guangzhou city hospitals. Many related aspects are also explored and we in particular focus on the effect of night shift work demand. Furthermore, we aim to detect the association between work-to-family conflict and job satisfaction among recruited sample subjects. Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire study was conducted in several Guangzhou city hospitals. Employed female registered nurses were included. Questionnaires were delivered to nurses in hard copy or soft copy, involving categories of working model, working demand, job satisfaction, and work-to-family conflict. 315 questionnaires were delivered and 261 of them were returned with a response rate of approximately 83%. After data cleaning, total 250 valid-responded questionnaires were analyzed finally. Statistical description, subgroup analysis, linear regression analysis, and multivariable linear regression analysis were established for data analysis and hypothesis testing. Results: In this study, family financial responsibility, occupation support from family, overall workload, overtime work, organizational policy support, supervisor support were found to be significantly associated with self-perceived work-to-family conflict. The effects of night shift on work-to-family conflict were different among subject with different demographic characteristic, family role, work role, family-related support, and work-related support. Shift model was found to be significantly associated to work-to-family conflict, and day-night shift was related to higher level of work-to-family conflict. But the relationship between the frequency of night shift and work-to-family conflict was not found through the linear regression model. And it was found that there was a significant negative correlation association between work-to-family conflict and job satisfaction, meaning that higher work-to-family conflict was associated with lower job satisfaction among the sample subjects of this study. Among the six items measuring the overall job satisfaction, job autonomy, task requirement, organizational policy, and professional status were found to significantly related to work-to-family conflict level. Conclusions: The association between shift models and work-to-family conflict was confirmed but it was affected by nurses’ demographic characteristic. The frequency of night shift was not found to significantly affect the self-perceived work-to-family conflict level. And there was a significant negative relationship between work-to-family conflict and job satisfaction, where higher job satisfaction was associated with lower work-to-family conflict.
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Mcphail, Lyndsey. "'On being locked out' : the lived experience of mature, female student nurses and their use of Information, Communication, Technology (ICT) in one undergraduate Pre-Registration Nursing Programme." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/on-being-locked-out-the-lived-experience-of-mature-female-student-nurses-and-their-use-of-information-communication-technology-ict-in-one-undergraduate-preregistration-nursing-programme(c76281ee-4521-4064-87b1-ee27f356f8fb).html.

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The explosion of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) use over the last 10 years within healthcare, and particularly within nursing practice, is changing the ways in which patient care is delivered. However a concern highlighted by various policy review and research evidence is that barriers to ICT usage are experienced by some groups of student nurses, particularly those who are mature and female, in a way that constrains potential impact on their professional development. This research adds to and develops the research evidence in the field by examining in what ways, and the extent to which, a group of mature, female, nursing students utilise ICT within the boundaries of one pre-registration nursing programme based on partnership working between a School of Health situated within a large university and its related NHS Trusts. By way of a qualitative, case study approach this study examines the biographical, university and clinical placement use of ICT for this group of student nurses. Consideration is given to the interconnectedness of these experiences as these students begin to develop their professional identities and learning as nurses. The experiences of this group of students are determined through interviews and observation of clinical practice. Three research questions define the parameters of the research. These are: 1) How are mature, female nursing students accessing and using ICT within nursing education? 2) What are the barriers that may prevent mature, female students from accessing and using ICT within nursing education? 3) What actions do mature, female nursing students consider may be taken to improve their knowledge and subsequent use of ICT in both their academic studies and clinical placement work? Findings from the research suggest that experiences of ICT relate to biographical history and the extent to which student nurses are supported and encouraged to engage with ICT in their university programme and on clinical placement. In particular the data suggests that for many student nurses the feeling and experiences of being generationally, emotionally and hierarchically 'locked out' of using ICT raises real challenges for the extent to which government and regulatory policy is being effectively enacted for particular groups of student nurses. This study, therefore, contributes to knowledge in and around pedagogical practice for pre-registration nurse education programmes. In particular it raises the importance of locating policy development in this area around the explicit privileging and enabling of ICT usage in all practice situations. In other words the development of a collective efficacy in nurse pre-registration programmes that is suggestive of notions of being ICT 'logged in' rather than being 'locked out' for mature, female student nurses.

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Romano, Michelle McFee. "The Lived Experience of Female Nurse Graduates of Interprofessional Education Transitioning to Clinical Practice." Thesis, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10746603.

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The need for nurses to be collaborative and practice-ready upon entering the profession has never been more important than it is today. The Institute of Medicine has identified that teamwork and collaboration should be essential parts of the nursing curriculum to prepare nurses to be ready to manage patient care with a team-based approach. The literature supports the idea that by learning out of silos and bringing students together from all different pre-professional programs, the professional working environment can be mirrored and the processes of collaboration and communication within teams can start.

Transition into practice has been studied for decades regarding the “burnout” and “reality shock” that result from the experience. However, no literature has been uncovered that has investigated the nurses’ experiences of transitioning into practice after receiving an interprofessional education. The present study used Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological perspective and vanManen’s phenomenological research method to illuminate the experiences of nurses transitioning into practice after having IPE. Ten practicing nurses who had received IPE were interviewed about their experiences transitioning into practice. Each participant shared stories about her transition period into professional practice. Through the process of reading and rereading transcripts, four essential themes emerged that shed light on the transition into practice after receiving IPE: (a) Understanding Team Dynamics, (b) Competent and Responsive Communicators, (c) Valuing Team Members, and (d) Recognized Self-Readiness. For this study, the lived experience of nurses who transitioned into practice after receiving an education with an IPE curriculum and practice is one of understanding team dynamics as competent and responsive communicators, valuing team members, and recognizing self-readiness.

Interprofessional education does not have to occur only with students in nursing, medicine, or other allied health programs. Being creative with multiple programs at any institution can enrich students’ education by developing their communication and collaboration skills and adding quality and scope to their education experiences while preparing them for the real-world environment.

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Dutchak, Jacqueline J. "Social and environmental influences of smoking behaviour among female nurses and teachers in Scotland : the role of social capital." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14335.

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Cigarette smoking is one of the most important causes of morbidity and premature mortality in developed countries. Since almost one-third of women in Scotland smoke, the health implications are paramount. Smoking rates among female professionals have decreased in recent years in the UK but they have not fallen equally for all occupations within this group. Historically, female nurses have had higher rates of smoking than other women in the general population while female teachers have had much lower rates. Recent work has revealed that smoking prevalence among nurses has declined in the UK and has reached levels similar to or lower than that of other women. The aims of this thesis are to gain a recent estimate of smoking prevalence among female nurses and teachers in Scotland, to find out why some of these women smoke, why others never started, and why others stopped. This endeavour considers their work and home environments, their interactions with colleagues within and outside the workplace, and their levels of trust, networks, and co-operation in the workplace and neighbourhood. In addition to their current circumstances, this thesis also examines retrospective social capital and deprivation. This study revealed that 31% of nurses and 7% of teachers were smokers, with prevalence of the former much higher than that of other women in the same social class and the latter prevalence much lower. The significant predictors, following multivariate analysis, of smoking and its cessation are varied and include individual, social, economic, and environmental factors. Of particular interest to this study is iv that each of the constructs of social capital have significant and independent effects on smoking and its cessation but that the relationship is neither entirely positive nor completely linear. Furthermore, smoking is often used by women in order to create space and time for oneself in order to break from reality. It is also used to by many women as a means of exerting control over their life. Policies to prevent smoking or aid in its cessation must therefore recognise the important roles of social, economic, environmental and biological influences and how these vary during the lifecourse.

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Chen, Jie. "Energy Expenditure, Heart Rate, Work Pace, and Their Associations with Perceived Workload among Female Hospital Nurses Working 12-hour Day Shift." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1244645978.

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Jacobs, Marianne Scherer. "The best of times, the worst of times : the Vietnam experiences of and post-traumatic stress disorder among female nurse veterans /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6427.

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Holm, Linnea, and Hanna Kammensjö. "Skolsköterskors upplevelser kring kvinnlig könsstympning bland flickor." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för vård och natur, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-5950.

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Bakgrund: Kvinnlig könsstympning är en gammal sed som är vanligt förekommande i flera länder. Seden innebär att delar av det kvinnliga könsorganet avlägsnas. Det beräknas att två miljoner flickor utsätts årligen. I vilken omfattning ingreppet sker i Sverige är okänt, men det förekommer. I Sverige är alla former av ingreppet förbjudet. Skolsköterskan har möjlighet att möta och hjälpa flickor som riskerar eller har utsatts för kvinnlig könsstympning. Syftet: Syftet med denna studie är att belysa skolsköterskors upplevelser kring kvinnlig könsstympning bland flickor i skolan. Metod: Kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra skolsköterskor i en kommun i Mellansverige samt frågeformulär från sju skolsköterskor i olika delar av Sverige. Kvalitativ innehållsanalys användes som analysmetod. Resultat: Skolsköterskorna upplevde känslor av Kluvenhet, Osäkerhet och Medkänsla. Samt att kvinnlig könsstympning var Känsligt men angeläget att samtala om. Diskussion: Resultatet i denna studie fokuserar på skolsköterskors upplevelser, vilket skiljer sig ifrån tidigare studier i ämnet. I denna studie framkommer det en osäkerhet och rädsla inför att samtala, samt en vilja att hjälpa utan att döma. Detta tyder på att skolsköterskor upplever en utmaning. De behöver stöd och utbildning för att våga möta flickor som utsatts eller riskerar att utsättas för kvinnlig könsstympning.
Background: Female genital mutilation is an old ritual common in several different countries. In female genital mutilation parts of the female genital organ are removed. About two millions girls are exposed every year. Female genital mutilation occurs in Sweden, but to what extent is unknown. All types of genital mutilation are forbidden in Sweden. School nurses have an opportunity to meet and aid girls who are at risk or have been subject to genital mutilation. Aim: The aim of this study is to highlight school nurses´ experience of female genital mutilation among girls in school. Method: A qualitative interview study with four school nurses in a municipality in the central of Sweden as well as qualitative questionnaire from seven school nurses in different parts of Sweden. The material was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Results: School nurses experienced feelings of Ambivalence, Uncertainty and Compassion. As well as the subject being Sensitive but Vital to talk about. Discussion: The results of this study focus on school nurses experience, which differs from previous studies on the subject. The study shows an uncertainty and fear of talking, and a willingness to help without judging. This indicates that school nurses experience challenges and are in need of support and training in order to meet girls who have been or may be subject to female genital mutilation.

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McClendon, Deborah. "Perceived Susceptibility of Cardiovascular Disease as a Moderator of Relationships between Perceived Severity and Cardiovascular Health Promoting Behaviors among Female Registered Nurses." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/nursing_diss/22.

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Significance: Morbidity and mortality related to CVD among women in the U.S. and most developed countries surpasses that of all cancers combined (AHA, 2008). Yet, CVD in women remains understudied, yielding low awareness among women and healthcare providers. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the relationship between health beliefs related to perceived cardiovascular disease (CVD) severity and health promoting behaviors were different in women with high self perception of CVD susceptibility versus women with low self perception of CVD susceptibility. Methods: This study used a descriptive, correlational design. A convenience sample (N = 220) included female registered nurses (RNs), 23-66 years old (M = 48; SD = 9.7), mostly white (N = 143; 65%), who had worked in nursing an average of 21 years (SD = 11.3) and reported their job as stressful/very stressful (N = 129; 59%). Nurses were recruited from five acute care hospital systems in a large southeastern city. Data were collected using standard questionnaires that measured perceived CVD severity and susceptibility, social support, depression, stress, exercise and nutrition. Participants completed data collection via an online survey method. Results: Data were analyzed using MANCOVA. For every standardized unit increase in perceived severity of CVD, participants had a 1.26 (95% CI: 0.02, 2.50) unit reduction in their healthy food choice score (lower scores = healthier food choices), and a 0.12 increase in their physical activity score (higher scores = more physical activity) (90% CI: 0.01, 0.23) unit. For every standardized unit increase in perceived CVD susceptibility there was an increase in the healthy food choice score by 2.37 (95% CI: 1.09, 3.65) units, and a reduction in the physical activity score by 0.27 (95% CI: 0.12, 0.41) unit. Greater age (p = 0.01) and greater depression (p = 0.001) were statistically significant predictors of lower physical activity. CVD susceptibility did not moderate the effect of CVD severity on nutrition or physical activity. Conclusions: Higher perceived CVD severity was associated with increased likelihood for healthy food choices and physical activity. In contrast, higher perceived CVD susceptibility was associated with decreased likelihood for healthy food choices and physical activity. More research is needed to understand how susceptibility beliefs around CVD are formed in women and how to better engage women in risk reduction behavior.

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Paulson, Margareta. "The meaning of living with pain of fibromyalgia type as narrated by affected men, their partners, nurses and physicians." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för omvårdnad, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-94106.

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Lindqvist, Elinor, and Lisa Norlin. "Genus betydelse i skapandet av en yrkesidentitet hos sjuksköterskor." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-114416.

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Syftet med studien var att undersöka sjuksköterskors upplevelser av vilken betydelse genus har i skapandet av en yrkesidentitet. Ett så kallat snöbollsurval användes för att hitta lämpliga informanter. Intervjuer genomfördes på fyra manliga och fyra kvinnliga sjuksköterskor. Vid analysen framkom sex kategorier, Yrkesvalet, Avsaknad av manliga förebilder, Yrkestitel, Heteronormativa ideal, Synen på manliga sjuksköterskors inträde i yrket samt Innebörden av omvårdnad. Resultatet visade att idealbilden av en sjuksköterska fortfarande ses som en vårdande, moderlig och omhändertagande kvinna, vilket sågs som den gemensamma förklaringen till varför fler kvinnor än män väljer att utbilda sig till sjuksköterskor. Detta medför att manliga sjuksköterskor har färre förebilder inom yrket och därmed andra förutsättningar att forma en yrkesidentitet. Informanterna upplevde skillnader i förväntningar på kvinnliga respektive manliga sjuksköterskor samt olika föreställningar om hur en sjuksköterska ska vara beroende på kön. I fråga om status och lön delade informanterna åsikten om att fler män inom yrket skulle vara gynnande.

The aim of this study was to explore nurse’s experiences on what significance gender has in creating a professional identity. Snowball sampling was used to find appropriate informants. Interviews were executed on four male and four female nurses. From the analysis six categories emerged, Choice of profession, Lack of male role models, Working title, Heteronormativity as an ideal, the View on male nurse’s entry into the profession and the Meaning of nursing care. The result demonstrated that the ideal of a nurse is still perceived as a caring, maternal and tending woman. This was seen as the common explanation to why there are more women then men who choose to study to become a nurse. This results in male nurses having fewer role models within the profession thus different conditions when it comes to forming a professional identity. The informants experienced differences in expectations on female and male nurses and also different ides on what a nurse should be like depending on gender. In the matter of status and reward there was an agreement among the informants that more men within the profession would be beneficial.

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Mokhtari, Parisa, and Malin Wennberg. "Sjukköterskors kunskaper om kvinnlig könsstympning och upplevelser i mötet med omskurna kvinnor : En litteraturstudie." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-25579.

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LoMascolo, Anna F. ""Do You Want Excitement? Don't Join the Army, Be a Nurse!": Identity Work and Advantage among Men in Training for the Female Professions." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28002.

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This study examines the identity work strategies that men students in nursing, elementary education, and social work programs employ in order to manage and assert their masculinity in the face of negative gender assessment, as well as the identity work involved in verifying their professional identities. It also examines the perceived benefits and disadvantages that men experience as numerical minorities in their fields of study. Interviews with 12 men students majoring in these disciplines reveal that while men do perceive disadvantages as men in these educational spheres, they believe that the advantages and benefits they enjoy in the form of special treatment, recognition, and access to opportunity far outweigh them. A key perceived disadvantage is the ongoing challenges they face to their social identity as men and their role identity as rising professionals. These men employ identifiable identity work strategies for doing masculinity; some of which have implications for gender equality in the educational setting, as well as in on-site training (i.e., workplace) settings as well. This study contributes to an understanding of how men verify contradictory identities, and how gender shapes, privileges, and constrains their lives. In addition, it builds on extant literature focusing on menâ s experiences in higher education as they prepare for careers in gender-nontraditional occupations.
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Du, Plessis Anneki. "Guidelines for psychiatric nurses to assist in the care of female patients with bipolar disorder during their admission and stay in a tertiary level psychiatric facility in the Eastern Cape, South Africa." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021160.

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Bipolar disorder is the sixth leading cause of disability in the world among people aged 15-44. Bipolar disorder is a chronic psychiatric disorder with a significant impact on patients’ social, occupational, and general functioning well-being. Patients who are diagnosed with bipolar type 1 disorder are usually admitted to a psychiatric hospital as an involuntary patient which means that they will be cared for in a closed unit. In a critical analysis of the literature it was noted that not much is known of the experiences of patients in psychiatric wards. The researcher used a qualitative approach, with a phenomenological research strategy. An explorative, descriptive and contextual design was utilized to gain more insight into female patients’ lived experiences during their admission and stay in a tertiary level psychiatric institution. The research population was female patients who were diagnosed with bipolar disorder and who had recently experienced being admitted to and treated at a tertiary level psychiatric facility where they were treated for this condition. Purposive sampling was utilised to obtain the sample for the study. A pilot study was conducted before the study commenced to ensure the trustworthiness of the findings. The researcher obtained the data via semi-structured interviews as well as field notes and reflective journals. Data was analysed by using Tesch’s method as adopted by Creswell. Once the data had been analysed, a literature control was done in accordance with the findings. Guba’s model of trustworthiness was utilized to ensure that this study was trustworthy and credible. The researcher implemented ethical principles to ensure that no harm was done to the participants during the research study. Finally, guidelines were developed to assist professional nurses to manage patients optimally during their admission and stay in a closed unit of a tertiary psychiatric facility.

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Nilsson, Daniel, and Andreas Mårtensson. "MANLIGA SJUKSKÖTERSKORS ERFARENHETER AV ATT VÅRDA KVINNLIGA PATIENTER I INTIMA VÅRDSITUATIONER INOM DEN SOMATISKA VÅRDEN." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för hälsa och samhälle (HS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-24738.

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Bakgrund: Yrket sjuksköterska har bland personalen präglats av kvinnodominans och själva yrkestiteln i sig har en feminin ändelse. När män i större utsträckning väljer att utbilda sig till sjuksköterskor så uppstår nya situationer som inte förekommit tidigare när det bara funnits kvinnlig personal att förhålla sig till. Syfte: Att undersöka och beskriva manliga sjuksköterskors erfarenhet av att vårda och bemöta kvinnliga patienter i nära vårdsituationer inom den somatiska vården, samt kvinnliga patienters emotionella erfarenhet av att ha blivit vårdade av manliga sjuksköterskor. Metod: Studien bedrevs som en litteraturstudie med sökningar i databaser för omvårdnadsforskning. Både kvalitativa och kvantitativa granskningsmallar användes vid kvalitetsgranskning. En beprövad innehållsanalysmodell användes till att finna gemensamma teman ur artiklarna som till skulle bli resultatet. Resultat: Studien visade att manliga sjuksköterskor ofta är rädda för att bli anklagade för sexuella olägenheter av kvinnliga patienter. För att undvika missförstånd och tvetydigheter använde manliga sjuksköterskor sig av olika strategier som hjälp till att klara av att utföra intim vård. Intima samtal kunde enligt den manliga sjuksköterskan upplevas som lika intimt som intimberöring. Ur ett patientperspektiv framkom det att yngre kvinnliga patienter önskade att få vård av samma kön, medan äldre kvinnliga patienter inte hade samma preferenser för könet på sjuksköterskan som utförde vården. Beröring av intim karaktär var något som kunde väcka starka känslor hos den kvinnliga patienten.
Background: Nursing has traditionally been predominantly staffed by women and the work title itself has had a female connotation. When men to a larger degree enter nursing, new situations arise which didn’t before when the patients only had female staff to take into consideration. Aim: To investigate and describe the experience of nurses who are male in their care and treatment of women patients in intimate care situations in a hospital setting, as we as the emotional experience of the women clients of having been cared for by nurses who are male. Method: The study was carried out as a literature review through searches in databases containing nursing sciences. Both qualitative and quantitative review templates were used to carry out the quality review. A proven method for content analysis was used to find common themes in the articles, which eventually formed the basis for the result. Result: The study found that male nurses often were afraid of being accused of improprieties by the female patients. In order to avoid misunderstandings, male nurses used different strategies in order to be able to perform intimate care. Conversations of an intimate nature were seen as an equally sensitive matter to the male nurses. From a patient perspective it was discovered that younger female patients preferred to be cared for by nurses of the same gender, while older female patients did not specify the same preference. Intimate touch was something that could evoke strong feelings in the female patient.

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Poynter, Denise J. "'The report on her transfer was shell shock' : a study of the psychological disorders of nurses and female Voluntary Aid Detachments who served alongside the British and Allied Expeditionary Forces during the First World War, 1914-1918." Thesis, University of Northampton, 2008. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/2682/.

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Shell Shock, described as the ‘emblematic psychiatric disorder’ of the First World War has long been synonymous with its soldiers. Its association with close proximity to exploding shells and thus the front lines, leading to the various symptoms of ‘shock’, has both facilitated and ensured its existence throughout the twentieth and twenty first centuries as a masculine affliction. Of the many shell shock studies that have been produced over the last few decades all have focused purely on the experience of the male combatant, predominantly because of this long held preoccupation with ‘front-line’ warfare and its consequences apparently being the preserve of men. Despite the prolonged interest and analysis of shell shock by medical and social historians along with a significant amount of work by feminist and, more recently, revisionist historians, detailing the involvement of women in the First World War, there is stHl no comprehensive study of the psychological problems encountered and suffered by the women who served alongside the British Expeditionary Forces (BEE). However, this study of the roles and duties of a specific group of women, namely nurses, voluntary aid detachments, and ambulance drivers, reveals they frequently endured a variety of traumatic experiences, involving injuries and fatalities, through the vicarious witnessing and dealing with horrific sights and sounds, all compounded by extremes of conditions and privations. Many, if not all, of these factors were given as antecedents for war neurosis in soldiers. Yet, while the nurse has been idolised for her role in the Great War, her experience of psychological ‘breakdown’ has not been examined. This thesis, through the analysis of professional medical literature, of medical case notes, personal testimonies, diaries and autobiographies, is a contribution to the areas of women’s history, medical history and, more specifically, to the history of psychological war trauma. Following a review of the literature in chapter one, chapter two is a re-examination of the proximity of nurses to the fighting zones and therefore of their exposure to danger. Chapter three analyses the nurses’ experience and subsequent symptoms of war trauma, including, importantly, how contemporary medical authorities understood the disorder, and then cared for and managed their female sufferers. These two chapters fundamentally argue that the notion of war-induced traumatic neurosis being the preserve of men is essentially pretence, and that this ‘focus’ on male sufferers means the history of the condition is incomplete. Chapter four essentially examines the issues of repatriation faced by these nurses, specifically examining the evolution of war disability pensions process of which they were excluded until 1920. It also looks at how the nurse, as female war veteran, coped with the consequences of her war experience. In conclusion, this thesis asserts that these nurses did indeed suffer psychologically for their involvement in this war and not because their symptoms and disorders ‘resembled’ those experienced by men, but were in fact, indistinguishable to the extent that some nurses were classed as ‘shellshocked’

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Evertsson, Lars. "Välfärdspolitik och kvinnoyrken : organisation, välfärdsstat och professionaliseringens villkor." Doctoral thesis, Umeå University, Sociology, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-28.

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The relationship between the Swedish state’s welfare political commitments and the emergence and development of three female-dominated welfare state occupational groups - nurses, home relief helpers and occupational therapists - is at the heart of this thesis. The primary aim is to study the professional possibilities and limitations created by the state’s welfare political commitments in health care, family policy and rehabilitation.

The thesis emphasises the importance of regarding the state as a historically conditioned actor and as an organisation of organisations. The state is not a unified and static actor and this makes it difficult to speak of the state’s relationship to different welfare occupations in general terms. Nurses, home relief helpers and occupational therapists have encountered the state in different historical contexts and established ties to different parts of the state. Abbott’s (1988) term jurisdiction is used to characterise the area within welfare politics that nurses, home relief helpers and occupational therapists have made claims on or been allotted. The struggle for jurisdiction takes place on three, analytically separate but in reality interconnected arenas. These arenas are the workplace, the media arena and the legal arena. The thesis limits itself to the legal arena, that is, the state’s administrative, planning and legislative structures. At the centre of the analysis of the legal arena are the Swedish Government Commission and the welfare political reform work that to a large degree has been formed by these institutions’ function and work.

An important conclusion from these three case studies is that the state’s welfare political commitments have been central for the emergence of nurses, home relief helpers and occupational therapists and their development into welfare state occupational groups. The state’s welfare political ambitions have contributed considerably to the transformation of nurse, home relief helpers and occupational therapists into modern occupational groups. Dependency on the state has not always been easy to handle however. The state’s welfare political interests have often contradicted the wishes of the professions regarding the content, length and organisation of training programmes, as well as regarding continuing education and licensing. The state has been unwilling to provide more training than deemed necessary from a welfare political perspective. An important conclusion from this study is that it is difficult for welfare state occupational groups to steer their professional project in a direction that falls outside of the state’s welfare political commitments.

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Osborne, Joan M. "The Career Development of Black Female Chief Nurse Executives." FIU Digital Commons, 2008. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/208.

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This qualitative study was designed to explore the career development of Black female chief nurse executives. Although a small proportion of Black female nurses have achieved positions at the nurse executive level, there remains a paucity of Black female nurse executives in this crucial position which raised the question of what factors contributed to this lack of advancement, but, more important, what factors have contributed to the success of the few who have achieved such level of success in healthcare organizations. The purpose of the study was to explore the career paths of Black female chief nurse executives with a view of understanding the factors which both facilitate and hinder the career development of these leaders in healthcare organizations. The guiding research question was, How do Black female nurse executives in this sample describe their career development? The participants in this study were Black female chief nurse executives located throughout the United States who, for the most part, were raised in segregation with a strong family foundation. To collect data, semistructured telephone interviews were conducted with 10 Black female chief nurse executives throughout the United States. The transcripts from the interviews were transcribed, coded, and analyzed. Using Super’s (1990, 1996), and Gottfredson’s (1981, 1996, 2002, 2005) career development theories and critical race theory (Crenshaw, 1995; Delgado, 2000) as the theoretical framework, the researcher found that the participants’ career development was influenced by (a) strong support system, (b) guidance, (c) influence of diversity, and (d) servant leadership. The findings help us understand the factors that have contributed to their successes as Black chief nurse executives. With the increasingly diverse population and concurrent increasing diversity in nursing and concerns about healthcare disparities, it is imperative that organizations attract, hire, develop, retain, and advance qualified Black nurses. Future studies addressing not only the career development of Black nurses but nurses in general might be informed by the present study’s findings. Recommendations are offered for nursing practice, education, and organizational policy.

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Michel, Brenda Rhodes Dent. "Registered nurse diabetes educators and preconception counseling for the female with diabetes." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3172880.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004.
Title from title page screen, viewed November 17, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Dent Rhodes (chair), Kenneth Jerich, Cheri Toledo, Denise Charron-Prochownik. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 96-105) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Forsyth, John. "Roost utilisation by female Leisler's bats at an Irish nursery roost." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2011. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=185599.

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Study of a Leisler's bat maternity roost in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, 1997- 2000 used the marking of individual female bats with PIT (Passive Identification Transponder) tags with infrared filming of bat movements at the roost entrance. This provided data for analysis of bat activity through the maternity season, without interference to the bats. PIT -marked bats were analysed into four activity categories. Evening exits and morning entrances to the roost showed an abrupt change in pattern at 8th June 1999. Flight patterns before and after s" June showed significant changes. Lengths of flight of one- and two-part flights per night were not significantly different. Principle component analysis showed a significant relationship of emergence time to solar radiation at 21 OOh GMT. Patterns of activity in the tunnel to exit, and following entry, were monitored and analysed. Survival rate estimates, Phi, for 1997 to 2000 varied from 0.61 to 0.77. Significant differences in body measurements between female adult and female juvenile bats were demonstrated. The profound changes in behaviour of the bats to sunset and sunrise respectively were also consistent with a risk avoidance strategy in the heavily pregnant females that may be prone to aerial predation risk. The large changes in roost composition while total numbers of bats using the roost remained almost unchanged highlights the problems of attempting to resolve roost phenology by visual roost counting such as the maximal visual roost count on any one night. Analysis of the sequence of emergence and individual consistency in timing of emergence in pregnancy and lactation strongly suggested that this sample of bats did not co-ordinate their behaviour in any way.

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Stålhandske, Pia. "Male and female reproductive strategies in the nursery web spider : pisaura mirabilis /." Göteborg : Göteborg university, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39929322w.

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Spjuth, Sofia, and Sara Elomri. "The Nurse's Role in the Care of Females with Urinary-incontinence in South Africa : - An empirical study." Thesis, Hälsohögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, HHJ, Avd. för omvårdnad, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-42639.

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Summary Background: Urinary incontinence is a condition in which the patient experience involuntary leakage of urine. It is a significant global health issue which annually affect millions of people. However, statistics on prevalence and epidemiology on the condition is limited, which might be as the condition is considered stigmatizing in many populations. Aim: The aim of this empirical study was to describe the nurse’s role in the care of females with urinary incontinence. Method: A qualitative study with semi-structured interviews was the most appropriate method to use. Twelve nurses was interviewed, the data was analysed with an inductive approach and content analysis. Result: Three main themes were identified; To give emotional support, Providing knowledge and access to information and The nurse’s interaction with the female. The findings show that the role of the nurse in the care of females with urinary incontinence is more complex than expected. Conclusion: The result indicates that the role of the nurse is an important part for the female to feel secure and understood. The emotional support provided by the nurses' is a central element of the care. It is important to increase the knowledge about the condition since the female’s often feel ashamed to talk about their condition.

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Olsson, Lisa, and Linda Ulvenstam. ""Att våga se och våga fråga, våga agera" : En studie om skolsköterskors förebyggande och hälsofrämjande arbete med flickor som är eller kan komma att bli könsstympade." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17152.

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Bakgrund: Kvinnlig könsstympning är en djupt rotad sed. Ingreppet påverkar flickors och kvinnors livsvärld genom inverkan på deras fysiska och psykiska hälsa, samt begränsar deras reproduktiva och sexuella hälsa. En bra fysisk och psykisk hälsa hos elever ökar förutsättningarna för inlärning. Det hälsofrämjande arbetet är en av skolsköterskors huvudsakliga arbetsuppgifter. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att belysa skolsköterskors förebyggande och hälsofrämjande arbete med flickor som är eller kan komma att bli könsstympade. Resultat: Analysen från intervjuerna resulterade i fyra huvudkategorier och åtta underkategorier. Huvudkategorierna blev följande: att skapa en respektfull relation med elever, att identifiera elever som är eller kan komma att bli könsstympade beskrivs som komplext, betydelsen av kunskap och att känna trygghet i arbetet, att samverka är betydelsefullt för erfarenhetsutbyte och leder till ökad kunskap. Konklusion: Studien visar att skolsköterskorna uttrycker behov av ökad kunskap, tydliga rutiner och samverkan i arbetet att identifiera och bistå elever som är, eller kan komma att bli könsstympade. Skolsköterskorna beskriver att de har ett ansvar i att informera om kvinnlig könsstympning. För det krävs kunskap samt förutsättningar för att etablera goda relationer med elever, vårdnadshavare och övriga professioner inom skolan.
Background: Female genital mutilation is a deeply rooted custom that affects the lifeworld of women and girls by causing physical and psychological damage, and also limiting their reproductive and sexual health. A student´s good mental and physical health improves the conditions for learning. Health-promoting work is one of the main duties of a school nurse. Aim: The purpose of this study was to highlight school nurses´ preventative and healthpromoting work with girls who have undergone or are at risk of female genital mutilation. Method: A qualitative study design was chosen. Qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach was used to analyse results. Semi-structured interviewes where conducted with eight school nurses in a large city in western and in middle-sized town in mid Sweden. Results: The analyses of the interviews resulted in four main categories and eight subcategories. The main categories found were: to create a respectful relation with the pupils, identification of pupils in risk of or those already undergone female genital mutilation was found to be complex, the importance of knowledge and confidence at work, and collaboration is important in terms of exchanging experience and leads to increased knowledge. Conclusion: This study indicates a demand for greater knowledge, clear routines and collaboration in the work with identifying and assisting pupils at risk of, or who have already been exposed, to female genital mutilation. The school nurses describe that they have responsibility when it comes to information concerning female genital mutilation, which requires knowledge and prerequisites to establish a relation with pupils, caretakers and other professionals in the school environment.

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Örnerfeldt, Sofia, and Frida Wetterström. "Könsstympade kvinnors möte med västerländsk vård : En systematisk litteraturstudie." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för hälso- och vårdvetenskap, HV, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-23736.

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Background: Female circumcision or female genital mutilation is a tradition that is carried out mainly in Africa. The intervention refers to that part of- or all of the girl’s external genital organs are removed. Aim: The study's purpose was to highlight the consequences of female circumcision in the encounter with western health care. Method: A systematic literature reviews was performed as a method. Twelve articles were selected for the study and these were sought in Chinal, PubMed and PsycINFO. Analysis and interpretation was done according to qualitative content analysis, inspired by Lundman and Granheim. Eriksson, Birkler, Dahlberg and Segersten’s nursing theory was used as background in the discussion. Results: The analysis process resulted in six categories: laws and guidelines, offence, communication, knowledge, vulnerability and nursing. The results showed that offence occur extensively against genitally mutilated women and the exposure of these women. The results also showed a strong need for knowledge, laws and guidelines. Conclusions: Health care professionals need to have a basic knowledge of female circumcision and clear guidelines to ensure good care. The nurse should also keep themselves updated of new research and search for knowledge to improve their care.

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Matthews, Tracy M. "WOMEN AND WORK: A FOCUSED EXAMINATION OF FEMALE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ARMY NURSE CORPS WITHIN THE AMERICAN MILITARY DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/394.

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Women have been involved within the public sphere of the workforce for thousands of years. Within the United States during the 18th and 19th Centuries, it was often with socially mandated stipulations. Once a woman was married, she usually withdrew to tend to the home front. If she became widowed, it was deemed tolerable for her to once again leave the confines of the home to work in the public sphere. However, war often changed the perception of what was acceptable. During the Revolutionary War, women found a voice and while still criticized for articulating their opinions, it was somewhat acceptable. Women also found work among the camps of the Revolutionary Army by helping to nurse soldiers back to health. Work in the nursing field would follow women through almost all of the conflicts that the United States found themselves embroiled, including the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II. With the issuance of the Army Reorganization Act of 1901, the Army officially recognized the work of women as nurses as part of the military structure. As such, the Army Nurse Corps was formed. With the outbreak of World War II, women who were in or who entered the Army Nurse Corps often found themselves in areas they were not previously allowed, most specifically, near battle zones. As such, the Army was initially ill prepared to send women into these areas but their skills as trained nurses were deemed necessary. Utilizing a qualitative and historical framework, this work examines the experiences of women through both a social construction and a feminist lens. Research tools included a pilot study of oral history interviews completed by the author, use of archival interviews housed by the Library of Congress Veteran's History Project, document analysis and an extensive literature review. These tools helped in understanding and explaining the experiences of the women included within the study within both a historical and qualitative context.

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Berglund, Sanna, and Naomi Tsarfati. "Kvinnors upplevelser av att leva med premenstruellt syndrom : En litteraturöversikt." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-7879.

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Bakgrund: Menstruationscykeln är en komplex cykel fertila kvinnor upplever varje månad. Cykeln innefattar hormonvariationer som påverkar kroppen på flera olika sätt. PMS är ett syndrom som inträffar innan menstruationsfasen av kvinnans cykel och kan pågå i upp till två veckor innan menstruation. Det föreligger en syn på den premenstruella kvinnan som svag, instabil och oberäknelig. Sjuksköterskans grundläggande ansvarsområden innefattar att främja hälsa och lindra lidande. Sjuksköterskan ska visa medkänsla, lyhördhet och respekt för patienten och arbeta för jämlikhet och social rättvisa. Syfte: Syftet med denna litteraturöversikt var att beskriva kvinnors upplevelser av att leva med premenstruellt syndrom. Metod: Metoden som valdes var en litteraturöversikt med vetenskapliga studier som identifierades genom litteratursökningar i databaserna CINAHL, PsycINFO, Medline samt genom sekundärsökningar. I resultatet användes åtta kvalitativa studier och två studier med blandad metod. Analys genomfördes med identifiering av kategorier för att sammanställa vetenskapligt kunskap. Resultat: Resultatet presenteras i fyra kategorier vilka beskriver kvinnors upplevelser av att leva med PMS. Dessa kategorier är kroppsliga och emotionella förändringars påverkan i vardagen, att känna sig påverkad av egna uppfattningar och andras attityder, förståelse och stöd genom samtal och att försöka hantera PMS i vardagen. Resultatet visade att kvinnor upplevde stor variation av fysiska och emotionella förändringar vid PMS. Det framkom även att kvinnor upplevde att män hade negativa attityder kring menstruation och PMS. Kvinnor upplevde också ett behov av stöd och förståelse. Diskussion: Författarna diskuterade kvinnors upplevelser av att leva med PMS med stöd av Martha C Nussbaums förmågemodell och ICNs etiska kod. Diskussionen fördes vidare med hjälp av vetenskaplig litteratur samt författarnas reflektioner relaterat till resultatet. PMS påverkar kvinnors vardag och kan leda till begränsningar i livet. Dessa upplevelser kan även vara påverkade av samhällets syn på kvinnors hälsa och rådande sociala strukturer. Sjuksköterskor har en betydelsefull roll i att stödja kvinnor vid hantering av PMS och även arbeta för jämlikhet inom vården.
Background: The menstruation cycle is a complex cycle that fertile women experience every month. It consists of hormone variations that affect the body in many ways. PMS is a syndrome that appears before the menstruation phase of the cycle and can be experienced up to two weeks before menstruation. Society contains a view of the premenstrual women as weak, unstable and erratic. The nurse's primary professional responsibility is to promote health and alleviate suffering. The nurse should show compassion, responsiveness and respect towards the patients and work towards equality and social justice. Aim: The aim of this literature review was to describe women's experiences of living with premenstrual syndrome. Method: The method chosen was a literature study with scientific studies that were identified by searching the databases CINAHL, PsycINFO, Medline and through secondary searches. Eight qualitative and two mixed method studies form the basis for the results part. Analysis was carried out with the identification of categories to compile scientific knowledge. Results: The results are presented in four categories which describes women's experiences of living with premenstrual syndrome: The influence of bodily and emotional changes in everyday life, to feel affected by one’s own perception and the attitude of others, understanding and support through conversation and to try to manage PMS in everyday life. The results show that women experienced a variation of mental and physical changes during PMS. Women felt that men have negative attitudes about menstruation and PMS. Women also experienced a need for understanding and support. Discussion: The authors discussed women’s experiences of living with PMS with the support of Marta C Nussbaum’s capabilities model and ICN’s code of ethics. The discussion was developed further by scientific literature and the authors own reflections related to the result. Suffering from PMS can bring consequences and restrictions to women's daily life. These experiences may also be influenced by society's views on women's health and prevailing social structures. Nurses have a significant role in supporting women in managing PMS and also work for equality in health care.

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Blumfelds, Ulrika, and Johan Nordlind. "Hinder och förutsättningar för samtal om sexuell hälsa mellan vårdpersonal och kvinnor med cancerdiagnos." Thesis, Röda Korsets Högskola, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:rkh:diva-209.

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Sexualitetens och den sexuella hälsans betydelse för människans välbefinnande är väl dokumenterad. Emellertid visar forskning att kvinnor med cancerdiagnos inte får den hjälp de önskar av sjukvården gällande sexuell hälsa. Detta faktum accentuerar behovet av att förstå vilka mekanismer som ligger bakom. Studiens syfte var att identifiera hinder och förutsättningar för samtal om sexuell hälsa mellan sjuksköterskor och kvinnor med cancerdiagnos. Studien utformades som en litteraturöversikt med kvalitativa studier. I resultatet identifierades ett antal hinder och förutsättningar för samtal om sexuell hälsa, vilka delades in i fem kategorier: vårdorganisationens betydelse för samtal om sexuell hälsa, vårdpersonalens utbildning i relation till samtal om sexuell hälsa, vårdpersonalens förmåga att undervisa och informera, rädslor och känslor inför samtal om sexuell hälsa, och attityder till och ignorans inför samtal om sexuell hälsa. Studien har visat att rädslor inför att tala om sexuell hälsa, sjuksköterskors brist på utbildning och tid är det som utgör hinder för samtal om sexuell hälsa. Förutsättningarna för samtal identifierades som utbildning och erfarenhet hos vårdpersonalen samt att ämnet adresserades av kvinnorna med cancerdiagnos.
The importance of sexuality and sexual health for human well-being is well documented. However, research shows that women diagnosed with cancer experience the care they retrieve related to these issues to be insufficient. This fact highlights the need of insight into underlying causes and mechanisms. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers and preconditions to communication of sexual health issues between nurses and women diagnosed with cancer. A review of qualitative, interview-based research was conducted. A series of barriers and preconditions to communication on the sexual health topic was identified and categorized into 5 groups: Organization of health-care, Educational level of staff, Care giver´s ability to teach, Fears and feelings, and Attitudes and ignorance. This review concludes fear of addressing conversation, nurse´s lack of education and time for patients to be the most obstructive elements. Education and experience of staff, and that women diagnosed with cancer addressed the subject was identified as preconditions.

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Broberg, Malin, and Ida Karlsson. "Sjuksköterskans kunskap, attityd samt erfarenhet gällande kvinnlig könsstympning : En litteraturöversikt." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-7834.

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Bakgrund: Kvinnlig könsstympning innebär att av icke-medicinska skäl utföra en partiell eller total borttagning av de yttre kvinnliga könsorganen. Det finns fyra olika typer av könsstympning med olika allvarlighetsgrader. Sannolika orsaker är att kontrollera kvinnans sexliv samt kulturella strukturer. Varje år genomgår 3,9 miljoner kvinnor en könsstympning i Afrika, Mellanöstern samt Asien. Ingreppet görs oftast på flickor mellan fyra och 14 år. Syfte: Syftet med denna litteraturöversikt var att belysa sjuksköterskans kunskap, attityd samt erfarenhet gällande kvinnlig könsstympning. Metod: En litteraturöversikt enligt Fribergs metod som inkluderade tio vårdvetenskapliga artiklar med olika metoder, fem kvalitativa och fem kvantitativa artiklar. Databaserna som användes för att hitta artiklarna var Cinahl Complete och PubMed. Analysen gjordes med hjälp av en tematisk syntes för att identifiera olika teman. Resultat: Resultatet presenterades i tre separata teman samt tre subteman. Kunskapsnivån gällande ingreppet varierade, olika attityder gentemot kvinnlig könsstympning identifierades och majoriteten av hälso- och sjukvårdspersonalen uttryckte svårigheter i mötet med och vårdandet av kvinnor som genomgått en könsstympning. Diskussion: Generellt besitter sjuksköterskan låg kunskap kring kvinnlig könsstympning, där attityden till ingreppet varierar världen över. Detta kan bland annat bero på bristande utbildning, låg medvetenhet, ett icke-jämställt samhälle, kulturell påverkan och ekonomisk vinning. Madeleine Leiningers soluppgångsmodell ligger till grund för diskussionen.
Background: Female genital mutilation (FGM) involves performing, for non-medical reasons, a partial or total removal of the external female genitalia. There are four different types of female genital mutilation with varying degrees of severity. Plausible reasons are to control the woman's sex life as well as cultural structures. Every year, 3.9 million women undergo FGM in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The practice is most often done on girls between the ages of four and 14. Aim: The aim of this literature review was to enlighten the knowledge, attitudes and experiences of female genital mutilation among nurses. Method: A literature review according to Fribergs method that included ten articles with different methods, five qualitative and five quantitative articles. The databases used to find the articles were Cinahl Complete and PubMed. The analysis was done using thematic synthesis to identify different themes. Results: Results were presented in three separate themes together with three subthemes. The level of knowledge regarding FGM varied, different attitudes towards female genital mutilation were identified and the majority of the health personnel expressed difficulties in caring for women with FGM. Discussion: In general, nurses have low knowledge of FGM, where the attitude towards the practice varies worldwide. This due to, among other things, the lack of education, awareness, a non-equal society, cultural influence and financial gain. Madeleine Leininger's sunrise model forms the basis of the discussion.

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Lugmair, Milou, and Paulina Jansson. "Stympad, klippt eller omskuren : Sjuksköterskors möte med kvinnor som genomgått könsstympning - en litteraturöversikt." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-6621.

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Kern-Coquillat, Françoise. "Les femmes dans le service de santé pendant la guerre de 1914-1918 en France." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013MON30008.

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Ce sujet concerne avant tout les infirmières, les femmes « les plus louangées » de l’époque, mais aussi les femmes médecins, nouvellement arrivées, à la fin du siècle dernier, dans la profession. Les premières, très nombreuses, sont en quelque sorte évidente, connues par tous mais finalement invisibles, la surreprésentation les effaçant. Les secondes, en petit nombre, sont oubliées ou plus exactement ignorées. Ce sujet semble proche, presque familier, mais il est plus complexe qu’il n’y paraît, se situant à la croisée de plusieurs champs de recherche. L’histoire militaire d’abord, la femme évolue dans un monde d’hommes et dans un univers militarisé. L’histoire de la naissance des professions médicales au féminin, avec une réflexion sur les techniques médicales et sur l’approche de la douleur. L’histoire du genre, on assiste à la construction d’un sexe social, qui met en avant des rapports de domination masculine. Une histoire des représentations, ces femmes, vues à travers différents prismes, sont imaginées, construites par une société d’hommes. Enfin une histoire de l’intime à travers la parole des femmes. C’est celle d’une dominée, exclue des savoirs, du pouvoir, de la sphère guerrière, confinée dans un cadre surveillé, hier le foyer, ici l’hôpital, épinglée par des obligations de conduites, d’apprentissages, de hiérarchie. Le travail se décline à travers un triptyque : les femmes telles qu’on les veut, c’est le point de vue de l’institution masculine, puis les femmes telles qu’on les voit, à travers le prisme des représentations, enfin, ce sont les femmes telles qu’elles se disent, à travers leurs témoignages
This subject mainly concerns female nurses, « the most praised » women at that time, but also female doctors who had newly arrived in that profession at the end of the last century. The former, very numerous, are « evident » in a way, well known by everybody, but finally « invisible » owing to an over-representation that outshines them. The latter, in small numbers, are forgotten or more precisely ignored. This subject seems close to us, almost familiar, but it is more complex than we think it is, being at the crossroads of several fields of research. First, it has to do with the military history, as women evolve in a man's world, a militarized universe. Then, it is also the history of women entering medical professions for the first time, with a reflexion on medical techniques and the treatment of pain. It is the history of gender, as we witness the building of a social gender gap which highlights man's domination in his relationship with women. The history of the representation of women through different prisms, imagined and built by a male society. Lastly, it is the history of privacy through women's words too. It is the history of women who were dominated, excluded from knowledge, power, the war sphere, women confined to a watched environment - yesterday the home, here the hospital. Women tied by behavioral duties, training and hierarchical obligations. The work comes in a triptych : women such as we want them – and this is men's view - then women as we see them, through the prism of representations and lastly, women as they tell themselves through their testimonies

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Otieno, Rose Bujehela. "New clothing size charts for 3 to 6 years old female nursery schoolchildren in the Nairobi province of Kenya : implications for marketing strategy." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284750.

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Esati, Ergin, and Wolff Oliwer. "Intim omvårdnad av kvinnliga patienter : Manliga sjuksköterskors upplevelser och strategier." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för hälsa och välfärd, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-35238.

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Sannolikheten att manliga sjuksköterskor väljer att avsluta sin yrkeskarriär är fyra gånger större än för kvinnliga sjuksköterskor – en anledning kan vara svårigheterna att utföra intim omvårdnad på kvinnliga patienter. Syftet med studien var att belysa manliga sjuksköterskors upplevelser av intim omvårdnad på kvinnliga patienter samt vilka strategier som användes i omvårdnadssituationerna. Intim omvårdnad innebär omvårdnadsåtgärder som involverar patientens kroppsfunktioner, personlig hygien samt blottning av könsdelar. Studien genomfördes som en litteraturstudie där tio resultatartiklar granskades och sammanställdes i subteman. Resultatet visar att manliga sjuksköterskor upplever den intima omvårdnaden av kvinnliga patienter som genant samt känner oro för att bli missförstådda och anklagade för sexuella trakasserier. För att undvika det har manliga sjuksköterskor utvecklat särskilda strategier. Dessa strategier har erfarits genom praktisk erfarenhet, inte från evidensbaserad utbildning. Manliga sjuksköterskor upplever att deras sjuksköterskeutbildningar inte tillhandhåller nödvändig kunskap om hur intim omvårdnad ska utföras på kvinnliga patienter, vilket resulterar i att de känner sig dåligt förberedda inför det praktiska arbetslivet. Studiens resultat rekommenderas vara till grund för en implementering av problemet i sjuksköterskeutbildningen men även i den kliniska vårdverksamheten för att förbättra den kvinnliga patientupplevelsen och arbetsmiljön för manlig hälso- och sjukvårdspersonal.

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Pfotenhauer, Alexander, and Ina Tragaj. "Kvinnor som tidigare genomgått könsstympning och deras upplevelse i mötet med hälso- och sjukvården : en litteraturöversikt." Thesis, Sophiahemmet Högskola, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:shh:diva-4014.

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SAMMANFATTNING Bakgrund Cirka 200 miljoner kvinnor lever världen över med någon form av könsstympning, och varje år utsätts 3.9 miljoner kvinnor i världen för detta ingrepp. Ingreppet utförs främst i afrikanska länder och vissa länder i mellanöstern. I och med den pågående migrationen kommer några av dessa kvinnor komma i kontakt med hälso- och sjukvården i de mottagande länder när de söker vård. Kvinnorna har olika upplevelser av vårdmötet beroende på hur de blir bemötta. Inom transkulturell omvårdnad är det en viktig förutsättning för sjukvårdspersonal att ha kunskap om andra kulturer, idéer och värderingar kring hälsa, ohälsa och omvårdnad. Syfte Att belysa upplevelser av mötet med hälso- och sjukvården hos kvinnor som tidigare genomgått könsstympning. Metod En icke-systematisk litteraturöversikt har genomförts baserat på 16 vetenskapliga artiklar av både kvalitativ och kvantitativ design. De inkluderade artiklarna har eftersökts i databaserna PubMed, CINAHL, Academic Search Elite och PsycINFO med relevanta sökord relaterat till studiens syfte. Resultat Vid sammanställning av resultatet framträdde tre huvudkategorier: Brist på kunskap om könsstympning hos sjukvården, Betydelsen av anpassad omvårdnad samt Informerande vårdmöten kan ändra kvinnans inställning till könsstympning. Utifrån de tre huvudkategorierna skapades två underkategorier där det beskrivs sviterna av vårdmötet i ursprungsländer och bristfälligt bemötande från vården i mottagande länder, vad det kan innebära för kvinnor som är könsstympade. Slutsats Några delar av hälso- och sjukvården är inte bereda att erbjuda kulturellt anpassad vård till kvinnor med könsstympning och därför bemöts kvinnorna av okunskap i vårdmötet. Att bli bemött på ett lyhört, empatiskt och respektfullt sätt gör att dessa kvinnor känner sig trygga i mötet med vården och att deras problem tas på allvar. En tillitsfull relation med vården kan vara ett verktyg för att bekämpa det fortsatta utförandet av ingreppet på framtida generationer av flickor och kvinnor.
ABSTRACT Background Around 200 million women worldwide live with some form of genital mutilation and the number is growing as 3.9 million women are being exposed to this procedure every year. The procedure is performed mainly in African countries and some countries in the Middle East. With the ongoing migration patterns, healthcare in the host countries will encounter more and more women living with some form of genital mutilation. The women have different experiences of their encounter with the health care system based on how they were treated. In transcultural nursing, it is an important prerequisite for healthcare professionals to have knowledge of other cultures and their ideas and values around health, sickness, and nursing. Aim To highlight the experiences of women previously exposed to genital mutilation encounters with health care. Method A non-systematic literature review has been conducted based on 16 scientific articles of both qualitative and quantitative design. The included articles have been searched in four databases with keywords relevant to the purpose of the study. Results The quality of selected articles was examined, and the content was analyzed to be compiled into three main categories: Lack of knowledge about genital mutilation within the healthcare system, The importance of tailored nursing as well as Informative meetings with healthcare providers can change the woman's attitude to genital mutilation. Based on the first main category, two subcategories were created: The outcome of encounters with healthcare in the country of origin and Unsatisfactory treatment from healthcare in the host countries. Conclusions The encounter can be experienced in various ways by women who have undergone genital mutilation based on how they are treated by health care professionals. There are some parts of the meeting that carry more weight than others. Being treated in a responsive, empathetic, and respectful manner gives these women a feeling of safety during the encounter and that their health issues are taken seriously. A trusting relationship with health care can even be a way to fight the continuation of the tradition on future generations of girls.

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Ahmed, Kalid, and Rami Sleiman. "Manliga sjuksköterskors upplevelser av att vårda kvinnliga patienter. : En litteraturstudie." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för vårdvetenskap (VV), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-41605.

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Bakgrund: Tidigare genomförd forskning visar att kvinnliga patienter kan känna sig obekväma då omvårdnaden utövas av manliga sjuksköterskor. Troliga förklaringar till detta är den manliga sjuksköterskans särställning som minoritet i hälso- och sjukvården. Vidare att rollen att ta hand om och vårda inte alltid varit ett attribut som vanligen tillskrivs män. Syfte: Därav syftar denna studie till att identifiera hur manliga sjuksköterskor och sjuksköterskestudenter upplever utövandet av omvårdnadsåtgärder då patienten är en kvinna. Metod: Föreliggande studie har designats som en litteraturstudie baserad på 11 artiklar med kvalitativ ansats som analyserats utifrån metoden för metasyntes. Resultat: Under analysen kunde fyra teman identifieras: “Intim omvårdnad”, “Beröring”, “Religiösa och kulturella hinder”, “Strategier”. Konklusion: Kartläggningen vittnar om att manliga sjuksköterskor stöter på problem på grund av sin könstillhörighet. Problem som i sin tur orsakar ångest och stress i olika omvårdnadssituationer vilket kan ha en direkt inverkan på den vård de ger patienter av motsatt könstillhörighet. Vidare kan det påverka vilken inriktning den manligen sjuksköterskan väljer efter avslutad utbildning.
Background: Previous research shows that female patients may feel uncomfortable when nursing is performed by male nurses. Probable explanations for this are the male nurse's special position as a minority in health care. Furthermore, the role of caring for and nurturing has not always been an attribute commonly ascribed to men. Purpose: Therefore, this study aims to identify how male nurses and nursing students experience the practice of nursing measures when the patient is a woman. Method: The present study has been designed as a literature review based on 11 articles with a qualitative approach that were analyzed based on the method of metasynthesis. Result: During the analysis, four themes could be identified: "Intimate care", "Touch", "Religious and cultural barriers", "Strategies". Conclusion: The mapping shows that male nurses encounter problems due to their gender. Problems that in turn cause anxiety and stress in different nursing situations which can have a direct impact on the care they provide to patients of the opposite sex. Furthermore, it can affect which specialization the male nurse chooses after completing the education.

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Hedström, My. "Den maskulina sjuksköterskan : Diskursiv konstruktion av maskulinitet i relation till ett feminint fält." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Etnologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-38459.

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This undergraduate thesis is written for an ethnological standpoint with the purpose of studying how concepts of masculinity is discursively constructed in relation to the women dominated work field of nursing. This is done by analysing the material gained from six interviews with male and female nurses with the poststructuralist theory of political discourse by the theorist Laclau and Mouffe. By doing this the thesis has concluded that masculinity is foremost constructed in relation to the nursing femininity within the work field and the strong masculinity from outside of it. While also being interconnected in systems of meaning where masculinity is created, reproduced and questioned in a continual cycle.

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LI, YI-FANG, and 李宜芳. "An investigation of burnout among female nurses." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60445435489432889457.

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碩士
長榮大學
護理學系碩士班
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Background: Nursing is a job with a high level of burnout causing negative effects on health. Females are the predominant gender in the nursing practice. Thus, the purpose of this study is to explore burnout and related factors among female nurses. Methods: This is a cross-sectional design study. We recruited nurses from different settings between October and December 2015. Data collected by a structured anonymous online questionnaire. Results: Total of 818 completed questionnaires were collected (completion rate was 94.9% ). The major participants were 31-40 years old (52.5%), university degree (73.8%), full-time job (80.2%), fixed shifts (71.0%), 4048 hours per week (69.2%), and more than 10 years of working experience (48.0%). The standardized scores of job control, psychological demands, supervisor support, co-worker support and workplace justice were 56.1, 63.8, 53.2, and 64.3, respectively. Nearly 60% of nurses agreed with labor consuming work (65.6%) and employment insecurity (59.5%). The average score for burnout was 51.6. The four domains of personal burnout, work-related burnout, client-related burnout, and over-commitment were 56.0, 52.6, 44.9 and 52.8, respectively. Personal burnout was the most serious in the four domains. There is no significant difference of burnout between medical and non-medical settings. The related factors of burnout included chronic disease (P<0.05), duration of employment (P<0.05), weekly working hours (P<0.05), job control (P<0.05), psychological demand (P<0.05), workplace justice (P<0.05) and physical demand (P<0.05). Apart from the above, supervisor support (P<0.05) was a related factor of burnout for nurses in medical settings. On the contrary, chronic disease and duration of employment were not associated with burnout of nurses in non-medical settings. Conclusions: Personal burnout was the most serious in the four domains of burnout for nurses. The related factors of burnout included weekly working hours, job control, psychological demand, workplace justice and physical demand. Burnout might cause negative effects on health and practices. In the future, it is essential to decrease related factors of burnout, and to reduce adverse effects on nurses.

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Yu, Pu-hua, and 于普華. "Investigation of Sleeping Quality in Female Nurses." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86127671693609869260.

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南華大學
自然醫學研究所
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The objective of this research was to evaluate the sleeping quality of nurses and to investigate factors associated with their sleeping quality. One-hundred fifty questionnaires were sent to nurses. The response rate was 100%. Of those, 128 contained complete responses to the questions. Sleeping quality was measured using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). Results indicated that 54.0% of nurses reported poor sleep quality and 20.3% required more than 30 minutes to fall asleep. The mean duration of sleep was 6.4 hours±1.5 hours. In addition, 51.6% of the nurses sleep less than 7 hours per day. 　　　　Worse sleeping quality of nurses was significantly correlated to worse health disorder (P=0.001), increased sleeping disturbance (P<0.001), increased usage of sleeping improvement strategy (P=0.039), and those working in shifts (P=0.002). Results from multiple linear regression analysis found that difficult in falling asleep (P<0.001), presence of health disorders (P<0.001), usage of sleeping pills (P=0.014), and tiredness (P=0.023) were associated with sleeping quality in nurses.

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Hu, Shu-Hui, and 胡淑惠. "Factors Related To Life Satisfaction among Single Female Nurses." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62869009135945406210.

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護理學系碩士班
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The purposes of this study were to explore the statuses and relationships of life satisfaction, social support, and physical-mental health among single female nurses. The study applied a cross-sectional design using structured questionnaires. A total of 261 participants were recruited from a medical center through a convenient sampling procedure. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t-tests, one way ANOVAs, and Pearson’s correlations. The results of the study showed that single female nurses had medium levels of life satisfactions and social supports. The highest score of social supports was the emotional support domain, and the lowest score was long-term substantive support domain. Further, about the sources of social support, the highest scores were from families, and the lowest scores were from nursing administrators. In terms of physical-mental health, participants in this study had shown lower scores in comparing with the general female Taiwanese. In more specific, the “social functioning” domain had the highest score, following by “general health”, and the lowest score was “vitality”. The Pearson’s correlation analysis showed that significant positive relationships were found among the life satisfaction, social support, and physical-mental health. The results of the study can be a reference for the hospital administrators in caring of single female nurses’ health issues.

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CHEN, JUI-CHEN, and 陳瑞貞. "Subjective and Objective Sleep Quality in Female Shift Working Nurses." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59786734819945026566.

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護理研究所
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The purpose of this research is to analyze female shift working nurses' subjective and objective sleep quality and related factors thereof. Based on comparative relevance, a prospective study was designed and conducted with female nurses at a medical center in northern Taiwan, aged 20 to 45. Sampling three groups: (1) Day shift; (2)Evening shift, 7 pm~12 mn, excluding 0 am~6 am; (3) Night shift, including 0 am~6 am. Total of 118 valid responses were received and entered into analyses. Research tools (1) Structured questionnaire: "Background Survey," "Job Burnout Inventory," and "Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire." (2) Actigraph Units. Statistical analysis using SPSS17.0. Results of this study are (1) The average subjective PSQI is 8.14 (SD=3.31). There are 77.1% of respondents with global PSQI scores greater than 5 indicates general poor sleep quality among nurses. (2) Fitted with Generalized Estimating Equation (GEE), objective actigraphy reveals a decrease of 6.95% (p-value=0.037) in sleep efficiency for each increase of working day in night shift nurses. (3) Various factors influencing nurses' subjective sleep quality have been discovered including menstrual disorder, habit of drinking coffee, perceived high life stress, lack of social support from supervisors and coworkers, lack of workplace justice, lack of perceived job security, personal burnout, work burnout, and over-commitment to work. All lead to poor sleep quality, while nurses with higher perceived work stress and lower perceived health status report less social support from supervisors and coworkers. Further multiple regression analysis of sleep quality shows that when keeping other factors under control, variables of perceived life stress, personal burnout, and social support from coworkers account for 22.7% of PSQI variance. A longitudinal and interventional study is recommended for follow-up research to improve female nurses' sleep quality via tracing the changes of their holistic health. Suggestions: Shift patterns with working consecutive 5 or more nights, or with 6 or more consecutive days; and long-term personal circadian disruption and disparting from domesticity and social contact should all be avoided.

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Tai, Shu-Yu, and 戴書郁. "Sleep、Health and Family Consequences among Female Shift-Work Nurses." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86022033281544216087.

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高雄醫學大學
公共衛生學研究所
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Aim and objective: The aim of this study was to explore the detrimental effects of working a rotating shift on quality of sleep, mental health and family function. Background: Shift work is an important source of disturbances in the health and well-being of nurses. However, nursing services must be available on a 24-hour basis, making shift work a necessity. Sleep disorder, mental health and work/family conflict tend to occur among nurses typically working on rotating shifts. Although many studies related to nurses’ sleep quality have been carried out in the West, few have investigated factors linked to nurses’ sleep quality, mental health and family function in Taiwan. Methods: This is a cross-sectional research design. A purposive sample of 1467 nurses between the ages of 20-45 was recruited from Kaohsiung City Nurses Association and Kaohsiung County Nurses Association using a mail-questionnaire during August 2008 to July 2009. The self-administered questionnaire distributed to participants incorporated the demographic data, the Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ), the Chinese version of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and the Family Apgar Index. Results: We found that shift-work seemed to have detrimental effect on sleep quality, health quality and family function. After adjusting for other confounding factors, nurses with night-shift had significantly worse score in evaluating sleep quality, mental and physical health quality and family function compared to day-shift nurses. Conclusions: We found shift-work, especially night-shift had detrimental effects on nurses’ health and family function but appropriate arrangement of work schedule might reduce such unhealthy influence.

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Liu, wanting, and 劉宛婷. "Expenditure of Healthcare Utilization of Urinary Tract Infection among Female Nurses." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55719283237836244063.

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亞洲大學
健康產業管理學系健康管理組
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Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are a common disease in women; among them, female nurses have higher prevalence than the general population. This study used 2005 Longitudinal Health Insurance Database (LHID) from National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) to explore the expenditure of healthcare utilization of urinary tract infection among female nurses in Taiwan. After deleting missing data, there are 360 female nurses who ever had urinary tract infection during 2008. Their utilizations of healthcare and expenditure are analyzed by secondary dataset, and by SAS 9.0. The results of this study conclude that among those who ever had urinary tract infection, almost half of them are aged 21 to 30; most of them visited OB/GYN department, then the urology department, and then the internal medicine department. According to the level of hospitals they had visited, the highest visited level is the area-hospital; the lowest visited level is the medical center. Taking the region into account, the area in the Taipei branch has the highest visiting number. The mean of the point of expenditure is 1303.75. The visited department and hospital level are significantly associated with point of expenditure. The results of healthcare utilization have shown that nephrology department has the highest visiting number, with urology department the next; the results of expenditure points have shown that the highest visiting number is in the South branch, with the Central branch the next.

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