HealthierU | Why Aren’t There More Men in Nursing?

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Nursing shortages are nothing new in the United States—the problem goes back almost a hundred years. And since men make up only 12% of the nursing workforce, the solution appears simple: Get more men to join the ranks. But how? On this week’s episode, host Daniel Sung explores what keeps men from pursuing nursing as a career, and what can be done to help alleviate the shortage.

Featured Guests:

• Jonathan Son is a second-year undergraduate at Emory University on the pre-nursing track.
• Dr. Sydney Spangler is associate professor at Emory’s Nell Hodgson School of Nursing, with a joint appointment in the Department of Global Health at Rollins School of Public Health.
• Curry Bordelon is Vice President of the American Association for Men in Nursing.

Student Highlight: Daniel Sung is a second-year undergraduate at Emory University majoring in Chemistry and Film & Media on the pre-med track. He has never made a podcast before.
Studies and sources mentioned in this episode:

• https://doi.org/10.1177/10608265221108209
• https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.15402
• https://nursejournal.org/articles/male-nurse-statistics/
• https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/nhhc/workforce-issues/where-did-all-the-nurses-go

HealthierU's theme music is by TimTaj.
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Produced and hosted by students at Emory University’s Center for the Study of Human Health, HealthierU is a podcast that aims to make sense of the science behind human health. This season, we’re diving into our generation’s burning health questions. Questions like: Is it bad to use the internet to diagnose yourself? Why do so many athletes get eating disorders, and why are they so hard to spot? Is sugar really so dangerous? To find the answers, we’re talking to scientists, nutritionists, counselors, medical professionals and regular folks, every week on HealthierU.
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