“…Increasing the awareness of educators on this issue and creating educational content, during nursing education, career planning and developing strategies (Lim et al., 2017), introducing the place of men in the history of nursing (Hargreaves, 2019), developing coping methods for male students regarding the practice of intimate care such as touch, which is seen as a barrier to male nurses (Babaei & Taleghani, 2019), and developing gender‐friendly practices (Hung et al., 2019) will be important approaches in increasing society's positive perception of the male nursing image. Moreover, these results show that society's preference regarding a nurse's gender while giving health care is trending towards both genders (75.3%) compared with previous studies (Alan & Uğur, 2018; Kim & Shim, 2018; Uysal et al., 2019).…”