Investigation and analysis of nursing college students’gender consciousness

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1674-4748.2016.16.002

Abstract：Objective:To understand the social gender consciousness of nursing college students.Methods:A stratified random sampling method was used to investigate and analyze 600 nursing students in Zunyi Medical College.Results:The investigation found that the awareness rate of the gender connotation of the undergraduate nursing students was 25.43% (95%CI=21.8% to 29.0%).Different gender,grade,growth environment,gen-der equality awareness status and course offering of nursing students to understand the gender connotation of social gender ratio were statistically significant (P<0.05).Male nursing students believe that nurses’occupa-tional gender suitability in first place is more suitable for women (46.7%);female nursing students thought that the decisive and independent proportion which suited to describe women were 0.6% and 3.7% respective-ly.Conclusion:Nursing students’awareness of the social gender connotation is not high.Male nursing students do not have a strong sense of professional identity;the female nursing students are still affected by gender stere-otypes.So gender education should be opened in nursing colleges and the gender consciousness of nursing students should be strengthened.