Male Nursing Students Training at Clinical Maternity Nursing Course: Challenges and Proposed Improvement Actions | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 35, Volume 11, Issue 3, September 2020, Page 576-590 PDF (897.17 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2020.153388 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Amal Sarhan Eldesokey Genedy1; Asma Kamal Ahmed2; Manal Mansour Mostafa3; Ayat Masoud Omar4 | ||||
| 1Lecturer at Maternal and Neonatal Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt | ||||
| 2Assistant Professor at Administration Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt | ||||
| 3Assistant Professor at Community Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt | ||||
| 4Assistant Professor at Maternal and Neonatal Health Nursing Department, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Increasing numbers of men enter the nursing field. When males enter nursing programs, during their training, they can face challenges, especially in maternity areas. Aim: To determine the challenges facing male nursing students during their training in the maternity department and propose improvement plan of actions to overcome these challenges. Design: A descriptive exploratory research design was utilized, Sample: A convenient sample of (300 participants) composed of (100) male nursing students and (100) female students who just completed their training in the maternity course in the Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University during the two semesters of the academic year 2017-2018. Also 100 of women were recruited in this study. Setting: This study was implemented in the maternity department in the Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University at Obstetrics and Gynecological department in El- Nabawy El-Mohandes Fayoum General Hospital affiliated to Ministry of Health, Egypt. Tool of data collection: Four tools used to collect current data: (I) structured self-administered questionnaire, (II) male students' attitudes towards maternity nursing clinical training (III) female nursing students’ attitude towards their male colleague companionship during clinical training in the maternity department, and lastly (V) Women’s attitude towards involvement of male student in providing maternity care during training in the maternity department. Results: the majority of studied male students (84%) facing a variety of problems and embarrassing situations during their training in clinical maternity course, there were moderate statistical significant relation between total attitude of studied male, female students, participant women and their residence P-value 0.010, 0.019. and 0.012 Conclusion: A strong positive correlation reported between male student attitude and their total self-evaluation, women’s and female students’ attitude was statistically significance P-value ≤ 0.05. Recommendations: Further research should be conducted to compare the experiences of male nurses in different maternity training settings, residence and culture. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Clinical; Maternity training; Challenges | ||||
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