page_title: Men in nursing
section_title: Notable men in nursing
hierarchical_section_title: Men in nursing / Notable men in nursing
caption_attribution_description: Walt Whitman and his male nurse Fritzenger
context_page_description: Although staffed disproportionately by women, since the 1960s, nursing has gradually become more gender-inclusive. Males make up around 10% of the taskforce in the UK, 6.4% of nurses in Canada, and 23% of nurses in Iran. In 2011 in the United States, there were approximately 3.5 million nurses, with approximately 330,000 of those being male.
context_section_description: Chris Colvin: First Male Nurse
  Tom Ahrens: an American nurse, researcher and educator at Barnes-Jewish Hospital specializing in critical care nursing.
  Justus A. Akinsanya: nursing lecturer, academic and inventor of the "Akinsanya model of bionursing."
  Richard Angelo: infamous serial killer.
  Jonathan Asbridge: the first president of the Royal College of Nursing.
  Richard Carmona: nurse and subsequently Surgeon General.
  George Castledine
  Luther Christman
  Daniel Conahan
  Charles Cullen
  Keith Paora Curry
  James Derham
  Benjamin Geen
  Paul Genesse
  Edson Izidoro Guimarães
  Billy Halop
  Carl O. Helvie
  John of God
  Matt Keeslar
  Camillus de Lellis
  Jim Lendall
  Stephan Letter
  Thomas Plut
  Ted Maher
  Orville Lynn Majors
  Ian Norman
  Daisuke Mori
  Abasse Ndione
  Colin Norris
  Phillipe Nover
  José Olallo
  William Pooley: volunteer nurse who helped in the Ebola crisis.
  Tom Quinn
  John D. Thompson
  Rodger Watson
  Will Wikle
  Tom Willmott
  Walt Whitman: the American poet, essayist and journalist volunteered as a nurse during the American Civil War.
  Jimmie Thomas
  Elvis Llanes
caption: Walt Whitman and his male nurse Fritzenger (July 1890).
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