Survey: Do you think nurses are portrayed positively in the media?

How can you have a poll like this? A yes or no answer to how nurses are portrayed in the media? IT DEPENDS!!! Depending on the media setting...you'll get different answers! A soap opera? The "Nurses" documentary on Discovery Health Channel? Benny Hill?
Please try not to make your polls so simplistic that no meaningful information can be gleaned from the results. Thanks

I think we should change the title "nurse" to "Total Care Coordinator"and get a documentary titled on "a day with no nurses" displaying empty halls and graveyards!

I am a student nurse in England. I did a presentation on the medias perception of nurses and our Z list celebrities think they are promoting nurses when they wear stilletos and mini dresses with fishnet stockings on. On our National Nurses Day, one celebrity did this and there was outrage amongst the nursing community.

I am not personally offended by these images, but when on a ward and men start making comments at the nursing staff, it makes you feel quite embarassed.

Some doctors seem to think nurses are incompetent, yet it is the doctors (or GOD!!!) that give the orders and the nurses that do all the work!!!!

of course nurses are not portrayed well in the media. A perfect example is on the ABC documentary hopkins24-7. tere were very, very few nurses seen at all in the days it ran.how ever now the discovery health channel has reedited the cut out footage of the nurses and made a documentary about us. I have not seen it does it portray nurses in agood light?

What's wrong with "American Assoc of Nurse Anesthetists (sp???)

I did see the Discovery-Health Channel last
Sunday. I did think they were good; the psych nurses were VERY professional, and I've worked w/a clone of the NICU nurse. I liked them.

A camera would have a hard time keeping up with a nurse. I would like to have had one try to follow me Monday evening. The only way I can keep going on nights like that is to temper the situation with humor. Fortunately, the charge nurse and the unit secretary were both efficient and funny. I hardly saw the other nurses as they were hammered as well. No breaks except the bathroom X1. I would love to see someone write realistically nurses. No matter how well it has been done (early ER Carol), they are always one or two dimensional - and I have yet to see one with a sense of humor. We have some great writers who contribute to this forum. Let's come up with a pilot. Better yet, a mini-series. If we want it done right, we're going to have to do it.

The best portrayal of nursing (and others perception of nursing) I've experienced is in a Pulitzer Prize winning play entitled 'Wit'. The playwright is Margaret Edson, who once worked as a nursing unit clerk. It is about a woman's experience with terminal breast cancer- reflection's on her life and her entrance into our foriegn, dehumanizing medical world. It very accurately portrays our hospital culture.

The nurse is knowledgeable, caring, informative and a patient advocate. I could go on about the patient, doctor and resident, but this post would become far too long. It is a very funny, sad play and if you ever have the opportunity to see it- Don't Miss It!! You'll love it on many levels.

Comments from others who have seen it are appreciated!

Or here is a good one... Do a search on www.google.com for the word "nurse".
- See what comes up 1st on the return to your search " http://www.google.com/search?q=nurse "

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Tuesday ... It's Official! HCFA Removes Physician Supervision
Requirement for Nurse Anesthetists!! January ...


Imagine that?! CRNAs being able to function autonomously without a physician's supervision? Looks like HCFA recognizes the extensive and specialized training and education these nurses receive--why doesn't the general public? I think most of the people posting on this thread have hit the nail on the head about the portrayal of nurses in the media. I haven't actually seen the Discovery channel program, but hopefully it brings some reality to what we do and changes the perception for some laypeople. I have had many people ask me if hospitals are really like the soap operas they see on TV--I really enjoy answering that question because it gives me an opportunity to educate and change the perception in a small way.