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Male Nurses get Hospital Work2006/01/01
Sixteen male nursing students were quickly snapped up during a job fair in Shanghai recently. The nursing grads were hired and on their way, while most graduates at the fair found themselves queuing up at booths waiting to wow potential employers. The male nurses were from the school of pharmacy at the Shanghai Jiaotong University, which began enrolling male students in its nursing programme in 2001, according to a report in Beijing Daily. Eighty-five of the 90 nursing graduates in Shanghai found satisfactory jobs within one hour at the job fair, the first they had attended during this job-hunting season, and 79.3 percent of them landed contracts with first-rate Chinese hospitals. Unfortunately, most students of other majors didn't have such success in China's fiercely competitive job market. Male nurses have become scarce resources in China's nursing industry, which 100-year history has been dominated by females. Some hospital directors who see few male applications for nursing posts said few male students want to do nursing jobs and that male nurses currently in hospitals are always seeking chances to go to graduate school and leave their nursing posts. Experts predict that male nurse students have rosy job prospects as male nurses are badly needed in China because they have better physical condition and are good at operating instruments and carrying patients. |
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