Constraints and Opportunities in a Nursing Career.

Anyone who has visited several European countries, met African male nurses and been to the U.S. and Canada cannot fail to be astonished at the differences between nursing functions in the respective countries. For example in one country nurses perform subordinate tasks with only one or two levels of responsibility, whereas in a neighbouring country, they have ten different types of responsibility, at all the levels at the country's health services. These differences are the result of various cultural, economic and political factors, but cultural factor itself is linked to the general cultural structure of society.