摘要
本文嘗試以女性學的觀點透視台灣的護理人力問題。研究者認爲護理問題是女性就業問題，也是一個女性專業在父權社會求生存發展的問題。護理專業不但曾是婦女就業的前驅。也是公領域對女性開放的指標。我國迅速工業化及都市化的過程更提供了女性角色變遷研究的好機會。本文首先自一九九三年發生之有關護理的爭議事件切入，然後企圖利用一項質性的實徵研究，解釋當前的護理流失問題。該研究係使用女性主義的架構，採ethnography的方法，企圖將護理問題放置到我國的文化背景中去檢視，並設法在我國當前文化的脈絡上畫出護士工作及家庭生活的草圖(sketch)。
並列摘要
The paper is an attempt to scrutinize and analyse the current nursing manpower problem in Taiwan through a feminist perspective. The researcher sees problems facing either by nurses as individuals and the nursing profession as a whole, be aroused from the fact that nursing is a profession for women in a patriarchal society. Modern nursing history is an excellent indicator of women working in the public domain while Taiwan provides an unusually good example of a rapidly industrializing society within which to view the effects of modernization on women's role. In this paper autobiographies were collected in order to examine nurses' life stories and intention of staying in nursing. From what they experienced and intend to do in the future, we also try to figure out how and why nursing has lost and keeps on loosing its members.