[The male nurse in his so-called "space"]

In a study in which "space" is understood as the place of insertion or of social action of the male nurse, and consequently of his productivity within a determined sociohistorical situation, the following questions were asked: How are male nurses inserted in their professional space? How do they practice their profession? Within this context, the nursing profession has been looking for its action arena, aware that its limits are irregular and its frontiers are invaded by other professionals, and aware also that the male nurse surpasses these limits. Using a phenomenological method, the reality of the male nurse's "space" as it appears has been presented and judged with the aim of describing what the male nurse's space ought be in a pragmatic perspective.