Abstract
Present study aims to understand the life of female nurses working in public sector hospitals in Pakistan. An effort is being made to collect maximum amount of information about the nurses’ lives. This study is conducted in one of the largest public sector hospital in Lahore. Snowball sampling technique has been adopted for collecting data from the nurses. 20 in depth interviews have been conducted. This qualitative data has been analyzed by the Hesse-Biber & leavy (2006) technique for conducting a rigorous analysis of the data. Three categories were emerged in the collected data. Life at hospital, Societal Response toward nurses and views about government policies. Toughness of job, issues of harassment, low salaries, daunting respect and honor, Issues in marriage prospects, lack of any service structure were the common themes under these categories. This study has immense importance as it has added more in existing knowledge about the nurses’ lives. Present study reveals other issues of their lives as well other than harassment issues. Recommendations were being made to improve the lives of nurses.
Lubna Karim Naz, Umar Rafique. (2016) Insight Into The Lives Of Female Nurses In Lahore: An In Depth Analysis, Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 13, Issue 1.
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