Investigation of gender perception in nurses and the factors affecting their perceptions

This research is descriptive study that is conducted to examine gender perception on nurses and the factors affecting it. The research has been conducted in April 2018-2019 on nurses working is Siirt Public Hospital. Research data has been collected in April-June 2018. Personal Information Form consisting of 17 questions and Gender Percepiton Scale consisting of 25 articles have been used in the collection process. Population consists of 368 nurses working at the hospital then. The research has been completed with 257 nurses. Scale usage license as well as ethics committee approval and administration consent has been available and voluntary nurses has been accepted to the survey. Survey data has been analyzed using SPSS for windows 22.0. In the evaluation process of data number, percentage, median, standart deviation tests, t-test and ANOVA test have been used. Reliability of gender perception scale has been found as Croanbach Alpha=0,908 which in high. In research, 51,8% of nurses consists of women while 75,9% are between 18-30 ages and 61,1% had bachelor's degree. Gender perception point average of nurses has been found 91,101±18,117 which is favorable. It is found that variance between point average scale and sex of nurses, children number, spouse's education level, spouse's job, spuse's support for his/her working, marriage style and his/her dwelling is important statistically (p <0.05). In the light of the results obtained in the research, some suggestions were made. Keywords: Sex, Gender Perception, Nursing