International Nurses Association

Isn't it odd when most people describe a nurse, and it happens to be a male nurse, they almost always have to point that out? It is true that most nurses are female, but the number of male nurses grows by the day. Male Nursing Facts   Many people are surprised to know that the first nurses throughout the world were actually men. The first nursing school was in India in about 250 BC and only men were allowed to be nurses. During the Black Plague in the 1300s, a group of men formed one of the first hospitals to care for the victims.   Today, about 6% of the nursing workforce in the U.S. is made up of men. However, in the military at least 35% of the nursing force in each of the three branches is composed of men. Men were excluded from nursing in the military in the early 1900s and did not resume this function until the early 1950s, after the Korean War.   Throughout the world today, more men are entering the field of nursing and there is a major push to delete th...