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Health care industry recruiters seek male nurses.


They're looking for Looking for

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 a few good men--and they're not the military. Hospital recruiters nationwide are promoting the benefits of nursing to the "other" gender: men.

Better pay, ample jobs, career mobility and even the "attractively rigorous" nature of the job are luring men into a field long dominated by women.

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 Division of Nursing 5.4 percent of the country's 2.7 million nurses were men, double the percent, age from 1980.

Men currently represent 8.3 percent of students in four-year nursing degree programs and 16.1 percent in two-year associate programs, according to the National League for Nursing and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

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 is also advising companies or how to recruit men, with suggestions ranging from advertising in the pages to emphasizing the tough image of emergency room nursing.
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Publication:Contemporary Long Term Care
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Aug 1, 2003
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