Gender dynamics in the history of nursing education at Ainsworth Dickson Nurse Training School in Swaziland, 1927–2007
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Abstract
In Swaziland the misconception that nursing is a female profession delayed male nurse training at Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital’s Ainsworth Dickson Nurse Training School. Started by the Church of the Nazarene in 1927, nursing training in this school remained exclusively women-centred until 1980, when four male students from the Umbutfo Swaziland Defence Force enrolled. Since then, male nurse training in Swaziland has continued unabated, although at a very low rate. The trifling numbers of men in nursing training from the 1980s to 2007 indicate that this misconception persists. While scholarly attention has been given to female nurse training in Swaziland, nothing has been written on male nurse training. This article investigates how male nurse training was perceived in Swaziland before the 1980s, why male nurse training started in 1980 and how its commencement impacted existing gender stereotypes. It also explores how male nurses were received, especially by patients.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".