To explore male nurses' work experiences and true feelings in interventional catheterization room of the tertiary general hospitals when they encounter emergency rescue in clinical work, in order to provide a scientific basis for formulating a more perfect management process and improving clinical care ability.

From August 2021 to September 2021, a total of 12 male nurses from interventional catheterization room in 6 tertiary general hospitals in Guangdong province were enrolled. The phenomenological approach for qualitative study was applied to interview the objectives. The data collected from the interviews were analyzed, summarized and categorized into several themes.

Four themes were extracted from the work experiences and feelings of male nurses, including overall atmosphere, source and coping of stress, advantage in rescue process, and expectation of managers.

In interventional catheterization room, male nurses are generally satisfied with the working atmosphere. However, in case of emergency rescue, male nurses affirm own advantages and meanwhile admit that work pressure and task from patients' family members, rescue skills and mutual cooperation are heavy. We suggested that nursing managers should maintain a good atmosphere in catheterization room, increase opportunities for male nurses to further education, scientific research, conduct occasional simulation rescue training, formulate more perfect and standardized emergency rescue procedures and nursing management countermeasures and improve the ability of male nurses in catheterization room to respond to emergencies.