And on the eighth day, the Lord Physician created nurses, to clean up the mess

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

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and on the eighth day, the lord physician created nurses, to clean up the mess

november 15, 2005 -- both fox's "house" and abc's "grey's anatomy" have shown utter contempt for nursing. but the two new prime time hits have taken somewhat different approaches. "house" is addicted to physician nursing. its six physician characters are constantly doing key care tasks that nurses do in real life. the rare nurse characters are silent, barely visible clerks, like wallpaper that assumes human form to move or hold objects. "grey's anatomy," with nine physician characters, has at times had nurses utter a minor substantive line. however, it has often insulted nursing directly. its interns regard the word "nurse" as a slur, and the nurses who do appear tend to be bitter or fawning losers, whose lives revolve around the godlike physicians. but two recent episodes of "house" (thomas l. moran's "daddy's boy," aired on nov. 8, 14 million viewers, and sara hess's "spin," aired on nov. 15, 13 million viewers) prove that the fox show is more than capable of its own specific anti-nurse slurs. in these, "house"'s brilliant physician heroes suggest that they consider nurses unskilled clean-up staff, "nurse-maids" who are good for handling stool and patients who have fallen down. the money quote? über-diagnostician and wit greg house has just temporarily relieved a patient's thymoma with a tensilon injection, and gone off on a "playing god" riff. when the drug wears off, as expected, the patient falls to the floor. house says this is "exactly why i created nurses," then calls out into the hallway, "clean-up on aisle three!" click here to read more and join our letter-writing campaign!

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wrestling video games:

not sure if you'd rather hit nurses or have sex with them? do both!

[/url]december 1, 2005 -- recent reports on computer gaming web sites say that two popular wrestling games now being released in new versions--rumble roses xx (xbox, playstation 2) and wwe smackdown! vs. raw 2006 (playstation 2)--feature an icky mix of violent and sexy "nurse" images. competing gamers in barely dressed female "nurse" modes can slap, kick and grapple, toss each other on a bouncy bed, rip each other's clothes off and spank each other, and, you know, use the body parts of their victims to create a malevolent cyborg wrestler that will help them rule the world. yeah, baby. these "nurse" characters are not helpless handmaidens, to say the least. but we do have a problem with the games' mixing of two other key nursing stereotypes, namely the naughty nurse and the battleaxe, in a toxic stew of crypto-sexual assault. we urge microsoft (xbox) and sony (playstation 2) and game developers konami and yuke's to move away from this kind of mindless stereotyping, which degrades a profession in the midst of a global shortage. click here to read more and join our letter writing campaign!

[oramar]

join the center for nursing advocacy's latest letter writing campaigns:

house tv show:

and on the eighth day, the lord physician created nurses, to clean up the mess

november 15, 2005 -- both fox's "house" and abc's "grey's anatomy" have shown utter contempt for nursing. but the two new prime time hits have taken somewhat different approaches. "house" is addicted to physician nursing. its six physician characters are constantly doing key care tasks that nurses do in real life. the rare nurse characters are silent, barely visible clerks, like wallpaper that assumes human form to move or hold objects. "grey's anatomy," with nine physician characters, has at times had nurses utter a minor substantive line. however, it has often insulted nursing directly. its interns regard the word "nurse" as a slur, and the nurses who do appear tend to be bitter or fawning losers, whose lives revolve around the godlike physicians. but two recent episodes of "house" (thomas l. moran's "daddy's boy," aired on nov. 8, 14 million viewers, and sara hess's "spin," aired on nov. 15, 13 million viewers) prove that the fox show is more than capable of its own specific anti-nurse slurs. in these, "house"'s brilliant physician heroes suggest that they consider nurses unskilled clean-up staff, "nurse-maids" who are good for handling stool and patients who have fallen down. the money quote? Über-diagnostician and wit greg house has just temporarily relieved a patient's thymoma with a tensilon injection, and gone off on a "playing god" riff. when the drug wears off, as expected, the patient falls to the floor. house says this is "exactly why i created nurses," then calls out into the hallway, "clean-up on aisle three!" click here to read more and join our letter-writing campaign!

take action "house" part ii

what do nurses do all day?

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i was pleased to hear an anchor person read above article word for word on the news. i then heard him say how unhappy nurses are with the show. it was sorta like get a chance to do a rebutal.

[NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN]

New if anyone responded it would be my across state colleague!

Glad to hear it's getting some air play and attention.

[chadash]

and on the nineth day, He created NAs to clean up after the nurses!

Just being silly...

[RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN]

I am not a nurse but will make sure a couple of them read it. Will be writing one too since I am a student nurse.

[ClaireMacl]

Well, I wrote to the producers, who knows what kind of an effect it will have! I love House, but do hate the fact that it never appreciates the work of the nurses who alert the doctors to the problem!

[Judee Smudee, ADN, RN]

The TV guide indicates the nurses on the show will go on strike as of Janurary 29th. We here at allnurses are already on strike as far as that show goes. Saw a small except of Scrubs last evening. It seemed to me to be insulting Born Again Christians. This offended me not because I am one but because as a health care worker I have always been taught to respect people's deeply held religious beliefs.

[Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN]

and on the nineth day, He created NA to clean up after the nurses!

I'd laugh, if i knew that no one out there thought this way.

[chadash]

I'd laugh, if i knew that no one out there thought this way.

Well, isn't that sort of our jobs? That's not such a bad thing. Someones got to do it.

[smilin_gp]

Scrubs insults everybody. I watched it yesterday too and was left with the image of a buffoon doctor crashing into charts on roller scates, hehe.

[murmur]

I had a jerk dr. call me senorita slow poke yesterday. It took me longer than 5 minutes to run an ekg start an iv and do intake on a hearing impaired man who did not speak my language all the while doing postop on two patients at the same time! All of the patients received their teaching and when one of them asked me if the md was any good I said "terrific". How could I be so slow? The ass yelled this out for all to hear. I work in an ambulatory surgery center he is there three days per week and whines constantly - even one of the anaesthesiologists told him to stop whining. I am going to confront him. I am just going to say if it is fair for you to refer to me with an ethnic slur then I will do the same. How do you like Khalif (sp) cry baby? I am of Italian descent - I refer to myself as an american. He referrs to himself as Iranian although I think he has been here his whole life.

[Sis123]

murmur, you sound like a most efficient nurse to get all of that done in 5 minutes. Also, the doc sounds like a pig's butt. I'll bet everyone in the department has a similar low appreciation of his rudeness and unprofessionalism.

I don't think I'd stoop to his level of ethnic slurs, but instead I might privately insist that he behave in a professional way while at work.....