I totally forgot to tell you guys about this...a few weeks ago, I noticed a little stretch where a particular commercial was running, advertising why you should play my state's lottery. It basically showed this very brazen, stern woman talking to a nurse saying something like, "And you call yourself a nurse... the bedpans in rooms X, X, and X need to be emptied and Mr. X still needs his enema prep." Then, the "nurse" begins to drift off into daydreamland with this "boss lady" serving her a fancy drink in the Carribean somewhere (because she'd won the lottery).
Like I said, it has been a few weeks, but that was the gist of it. You just had to see it - it made me pretty angry the 2 or 3 times I saw it. It's not that we don't do those tasks, I just hate the omission of the more "heady" aspects of our job.
Sorry....I just realized that I am somewhat like the news...mostly posting the negative (but unfortunately true) aspects of life for us nurses when I post. So let me end with something positive....well, I guess the first thing that comes to mind is something that happened at the end of my shift on the last day I worked about a week and a half ago (been off). After having one of those days where you are running from the time you walk in the door until the time you leave (several hours after you're supposed to) and everything that could go wrong, did, I had the husband of a patient thank me emphatically for all I did for his wife. He also said, "You guys don't get paid enough for what you do" and some other general comments about how awesome nurses are. We should all get to hear this truth ever now and then. Now if only the rest of the public at large would come to this realization! We'll get there...
Nursecherlove, I hope you'll consider firing off an e-mail to the Center for Nursing Advocacy telling them about the lottery commercial and which state is airing it. They just might send off a letter of protest to that particular lottery commission.
If you're not familiar with CNA, their focus is media portrayals of nurses in everything from newspaper articles to situation comedies. I really enjoy visiting their site.
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Nursecherlove, I hope you'll consider firing off an e-mail to the Center for Nursing Advocacy telling them about the lottery commercial and which state is airing it. They just might send off a letter of protest to that particular lottery commission.
If you're not familiar with CNA, their focus is media portrayals of nurses in everything from newspaper articles to situation comedies. I really enjoy visiting their site.