ch6 May5-Don Polec's World-nurse as foot rubbers

[ktwlpn, LPN]

He did a story on a handsome 101 yr old gentleman at a bowling alley-he asked the man "Wouldn't you rather have some nice pretty nurse giving you a foot massage or something like that instead of bowling?" A FOOT MASSAGE?!!! I urge you all to e-mail Action News...Another example of how our society views nurses......

[PANurseRN1]

i saw it. this is the e-mail i sent:

don polec:

in your story about the 101y old gentleman who bowled, you asked him if he wouldn't rather have some pretty nurse giving him a foot massage.

you might have thought your comment was "cute," but as an rn i found it really offensive. nurses constantly have to rebut the media portraying them in inaccurate or demeaning ways. while you may have thought nothing about your remark, it was dismissive of nurses, whether or not you intended it to be.

perhaps you should spend a part of next week (national nurses' week) following some real nurses and finding out what they actually do, and why your life could some day depend on one of them.

you might also want to visit the website www.nursingadvocacy.org to see the struggles we nurses have with negative media portrayals.