Introduction Nursing is a profession in the health care provision sector which majorly deals with the care of the individual patients so as to make them gain and maintain optimal health. Those who do this type of work are called nurses and they are mostly found in institutions like hospitals, clinics, dispensaries among others (Chin, 2008). They are always in constant contact with the sick offering pieces of advice that would see to it that they regain their health. They are more close to patients than doctors and administrators who run these institutions. Main body This work that nurses do is affected by a variety of factors and each and every patient that they come into contact with is different from the previous one. This makes their job very tiring and always customizing ones self with the needs of the client. Some of the trends that shape this profession and affect their mode of service delivery can be categorized in a number of ways but basically, they are: social, political and economic. Socially, the manner in which people live differs and what a given society considers a norm might be a vice in another community. When these two kinds of people seek the help of a nurse, they would thus expect different attention from him/her. This affects the work that a nurse does as he or she is forced to conform to the specific demands of the client at hand. Some people living in male chauvinistic societies would only expect to find female nurses at the hospitals. Should they get to the hospital; and placed under the care of a male nurse, they protest and this leaves the nurses baffled and at pains trying to offer assistance to the individuals (ibid). Most of the social issues that affect the work done by nurses revolve mainly around gender issues. Men would find it hard to be bathed by females who are not their wives or close relatives. A sick male who is to spend days at the facility and is unable to bathe himself would only be bathed by the nurses and should the facility have fewer male nurses then the female nurses would be mandated with the bathing of the ailing males. This proves difficult and complicates the job of the nurse. The nurses are therefore forced to turn themselves into counselors and first offer counseling services to their clients before getting them to receive such intimate services. Some clients create fusses in matters as simple as being offered an injection. They completely detest the idea of a woman nurse being the ones to inject them. Most societies to this day still believe that doctors are majorly males while nurses should be females. Such mindsets make it hard for male nurses to render their services as most of the clients openly ridicule and laugh at the male nurses and call them names. In such a situation the male nurses being humans would have to offer their services sparingly and this is in deed goes against the medical practitioners’ oath of always protecting lives. Some social structures also over work the nurses. A society with rampant cases of wife battering will see to it that nurses are always busy with clients trotting in day and night. So is the case with a warring society (Radcliffe, 2000). In such a society, the numbers of people seeking medical attention are quite high and after being attended to by