Abstract: Objective To carry out the occupational education of male nursing students, improve the occupational cognition ability of male students and provide references to promote the development of their career by a survey on the occupational cognition status of male students of a university in Hangzhou. Methods A survey was conducted among 32 male students on the current situation of occupational cognition. Results 53.1% (17/32) of male students take the initiative in nursing,81.2% (26/32) of the male students thought nursing profession has important social functions,84.4% (27/32) of the male students expressed actively respond to the nursing work in the future, 15.6% (5/32) of male students had little belief or could not to perform perfectly in nursing work. There was no significant difference founded in nursing occupational occupation cognition of different grades of male students. Conclusions The nursing occupational cognition ability of male students remains to be further improved, the difference of different grades of male students’ cognition status needed to be further verified in order to promote the vocational education current of male students, Attention should be paid to male students’ professional cognitive education and improve their professional cognitive ability.

Key words: Male students, Nursing major, Occupational cognition