[Ethics of care and masculinity: the case of men who choose the nursing profession].

Unlabelled: The ethic of care formulated in 1982 by C. Gilligan states that men and women do not have the same moral concerns. This work had as main objective to determine moral concerns of men who choose to be pediatric nurse, a female occupation (in France, 1,3% of men reported in 2010 among nurses specialized in pediatric care).

Population And Method: population was composed of a non-representative sample of male pediatric nurses recruited from the next. Methodology consisted in a qualitative survey in the form of face-to-face interviews by a single female investigator.

Results: I I men were interviewed between January and Mai 2013. Analysis of the interviews showed that, although they announce classical nursing and masculine values, moral concerns that characterize the ethic of care were present in almost of them ( 10 out of 11).

Discussion: the main feature of this work was that the investigator met happy health professionals. It is therefore suggested that it is explained by the fact that this group of men combine, in an apparently harmonious way, moral concerns traditionally assigned to men and women.