Jay Leno's "joke" about nurses

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This was origanally on another post, but I felt it deserved it's own post It's no wonder the public gets the idea that we are handmaidens. Did anyone see Jay Leno last night? One of his "jokes" was that he had seen on CNN that there was a nursing shortage. And we can't do without nurses, because without nurses there would be no more Media movies. Someone originally posted this and i could'nt believe it I have written to NBC and complained about it....everyone here should do the same! [email protected] is the email.....lets be heard!!!

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I dont watch Leno either, but that didnt stop me from asking him for an apology for the nursing profession.

How dare he? And then we have to wonder why some people give us such dismal respect.

WRITE, WRITE AND WRITE SOME MORE

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Here is where the ANA can make it's voice heard.

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Okay went one step more...I sent an email to the ANA asking them to contact the Leno show also...I don't know if they will, but it is worth the time it took me to write it....my husband told me last night...you love starting trouble don't you,lol....I just told him I am so good at it.....everyone write please

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I already sent the letterman show a lenghty letter as well as the ANA......who else can we write....hmmm

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I received this today in my email........Robin, I wanted to follow up with you and let you know we are

sending a letter to NBC regarding Jay Leno's "joke" on The

Tonight show. Once the letter is out the door, we'll post it on

our website, www.nursingworld.org, as well. I encourage you

and any other nurses to contact the show as well. As I said in

my earlier mail, sometimes hearing from individual nurses can

make a difference even more than just from an organization --

perhaps, working together we can all make a difference.

Thank you for your efforts in this area.

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I don't know if it will do much good, but at least the ANA is taking notice of the situation.....

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Gee........ I just read the terrific letter the ANA president fired off at Jay Leno. I wonder if she was speaking for ALL 2 million nurses in this country when she blasted him for his crude remarks or if she just meant that only the 6-10% of the nations nurses who are ANA members are disgusted by what he said. And I wonder if those were just ANA members demanding that the ANA speak up on this.

What do you think? (tongue-in-cheek-here but you get the point, Im sure.)

Press release: ANA Responds to Leno Remark http://www.ana.org/pressrel/2001/ltr0502.htm

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That bum made the same kind of jokes all thru nurses week last year & was bombarded with mail from nurses all over the country. He must have thought THAT was funny because he not only did not apologize, he did it again this year!

As someone else said, Lawyers, Doctors, Politicians, Pilots, etc all are the subject of stereotypical jokes on late night TV. It's a joke..!! Are we so insecure in our profession as to need to make a major issue out of it?

Just my $.000002

Aw, come on B! That was worth at leat $.02! :D

Specializes in CCU, Geriatrics, Critical Care, Tele.

well said HotSpam

as a reply to hot spam and all the other guys out there. I truly do not think that the Media star joke was made at the expense of the male nurses in our comunnity. I have spent quite a few years defending the guys and now I see that when a tasteless remark is thrown in our direction it is shruged off as just a joke.I have had to explain to terrified elderly pts. that you are indeed nurses and had not come into their room to harm them. I have had to explain to husbands and fathers in home care situations that you do not want to sleep with the wives and other female family members when you are on duty. I have also chastized all sorts of people who asume that all male nurses are gay. The men out there have more than likely not had Dr. and Pt. asume it is okay to poke pinch or grab, just because we are there and it does happen. Nurseing is a "pink collar" job not a blue collar job or a white collar job. Just because there are so many really great male nurses out there don't think that public opinion of nursing includes a whole lot of men. Ask ten people (who don't know that you are a nurse) to describe a nurse and the answer will most likely start out with "A woman who...." So just remember that when someone on national televison lowers the profession to the state of Media stars it is in all probability the women he is refering to, and those of us who have been nursing for so many years, and taking it on the chin for all those years have every right to be offended and mad as hell. Let me close by saying that I am so pleased that there have been so many men entering the profession in the past few years. You guys have helped to bring nursing to a new level.

Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Dear LPNandloveit1: Couldn't have said it better. Toally agree with your post. Hot Spam also agree that we need to develop a thicker skin...after twenty years mine is at least 1" thick to have survived. But we need to combat public sexist attitudes wherever they occur.

Just an observation re:numbers of male nurses. Last night, half of the nurses where I worked were male. That's pretty good representation.

:eek: I did not see leno but I am sure that

he had a lot of jokes to say as the others did like david letterman.they just have no ideal what we go thru and really do not care anymore what these people have to say anymore.They have to really see what we do and that if it was not for us they would not get the care should they end up in the hospital some day.

Anyone bothered by Jay Leno's jokes should take a moment to picture just how "sexy" Jay will be someday, when one of us is wiping jevity/c-diff poopy off his fat butt. How about drool off his fat chin? Maybe he will get lucky and one of his Mediao-nurses will have to place a foley for him. Then he'll see how truly titillating nursing is! Never lose your humor.

I am so glad that the ANA is defending us and our reputation; this is the same ANA that endorsed people like Bill Clinton and Mario Cuomo. How impressive! :rolleyes:

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