<p>The purpose of this essay was to examine female and male nursing students expectations and goals referring to the nursing profession from a gender perspective and examining the students reasons to apply for nursing school. A descriptive study with qualitative design was implemented. Data acquisition was made through interviewing ten nurse students, five male and five female. The interview material were analysed in accordance with Kvale’s method of analyzing. The results were discussed in accordance with Yvonne Hirdmans gender theory. The result shows that there is a difference in the group between male and female student’s expectations and career goals. The majority of the male students have explicit career goals and a concrete plan to achieve their goals while the majority of the female students do not have any specific goals or plan for their future profession career. The result of the study shows that the professional expectations differ between the male and the female students. The male student expects the profession to be stimulating and the female student expects the profession to be varying. There is no doubt that the nurse profession still is looked upon as a clearly feminine profession even though there is awareness that this is an out-of-date interpretation and that a change is approaching in the modern society. To achieve a more equal distribution according to gender more research has to be done.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:uu-112163 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Eriksson, Annie, Ekholm, Charlott |
| Publisher | Uppsala University, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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