Maskulinisasi Pekerjaan Tenaga Kesehatan Perawat di Rumah Sakit Royal Prima Ayahanda Medan

Abstract

This study titled Masculinization of nurse health workers at The Prima Ayahanda Hospital Medan. This study examines the process of masculinizing the male nurse profession at the Royal Prima Hospital in Medan, which is generally dominated by women. This study aims to examine and understand the phenomenon of masculinization of work in male nurse health workers at Royal Prima Hospital. The study of this phenomenon stems with the presence of men working in a profession that is constructed as a woman‟s profession in this study is the nursing profession.The research method used is qualitative research with a descriptive approach. Data collection techniques were carried out using observation, interviews, and documentation methods. The concept of gender is used as an analysis, and the theoretical basis used is the theory of nature and nurture. The results showed that the masculinization process of male nurse health workers at the Royal Prima Hospital Medan in theory of nature basically the nursing profession has characteristics that are inherent in women such as gentleness, compassion, and caring aura, so that generally women are identical with domestic and public work. In nurture theory, nursing activities in hospitals are based on the construction of social and cultural factors. This has led to a shift that nursing work, which is generally done by women, has become a profession provided by the public such as hospitals. This is motivated by the development of the world of health, the first causal factor is structurally the hospital has a policy to provide for the needs of male nurses such as paying attention to public needs (for example; female patients want to be treated by female nurses, and vice versa), unexpected circumstances, patient desires, the number of patients is increasing every year along with the variation of the disease so that it requires treatment from male nurses. Second, the values related to gender are still valid, namely that women are considered better in caring for, even though men can also take care of them. Third, there are still practices and perspectives related to values, ethics (male patients are considered more ethical if cared for by male nurses and can be accounted for in the norm), and religious values (female patients must be held by female nurses) and culture in hospitals that are still reproduced by hospital management. So the problem of the presence of male nurses is present because of the changes and shifts that occur in the world of health in hospitals.