Not getting it as nurses- the view

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Dear Whoopi Goldberg, Michelle Collins, Raven Simone, Joy Behar and the View,

Do you think we get it now as nurses? I hope you get it and actually comprehend no longer is it okay to verbally diminish this profession. Nurses' are harassed, bullied, portrayed as being idiots in the media. The platform that you guys have is powerful, but it is not being used to build someone up instead you attempted to tear this profession down. I totally believe in the first amendment. However, you guys have made the attempt to discredit my profession. If you walked in the shoe of just a nurse” for one day your attitude of us not getting it" would change. I originally was not going to comment because I know they have a right to their opinions. However, I replayed the video multiple times to ensure I heard what they stated clearly. When does a nurse that decided to share a personal experience with a patient equivalent someone reading his or her email”? Followed by give the doctor their stethoscope back it is not okay nor will ever be okay.

Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

'Not a Real Profession': 'View' Hosts Trash Nurses After On-Air Apology - Breitbart

The View has lost five sponsors, as well their credibility, as explained in this opinion piece.

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Specializes in Oncology, LTC, Rehabilitation.

I could care less what those 2 women on the view said. I've never seen that show and don't even know who those women are,

who apparently are idiots. I feel bad for everyone who felt so hurt by their comments. I would have been mad as hello if it had been comments like those if it had been made by say the AMA. But those women apparently comedians, who are fools.

And i also think Miss Colorado is the last RN that I want to be a spokesperson for nurses. She was trying to win a beauty pagent, and only had a nursing licence for a very short time. I'm sure the story she told about "Joe" (I had to look up her clip because I don't watch beauty pagent either), was carefully concocted by her "beauty pagent manager" if there is such a person. I would much rather see anyone of you be the spokesperson for nursing, because you are really nurses.

Who I feel most sorry for are my patients. Because if they are expecting Miss Colorado they will be sorely disappointed on my looks.But luckily for them, we are not allowed to wear bikinis, and i do know how to take care of my patients!

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.
However, I am hurt that the View made every attempt to brush this comment over with no real apology. Sometimes word can hurt harder than physically hitting someone.

And this isn't the least bit dramatic or righteously indignant. :facepalm:

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About 30 years ago, there WAS a Miss America who was a Diploma Grad RN. I think that she was from the Midwest. I remember when she came to my hospital in California on a PR Tour, the hospital auditorium was PACKED WITH DOCTORS!! It was standing room only and the nurses could not get a seat!!

Is anyone surprised??

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN (ret)

Somewhere in the PACNW

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If I can blow off the things I hear at work, I can blow off what people say on TV. They got carried away ripping on the Miss America pageant. Do people care about that pageant? I thought it was for guys, I certainly have no use for bimbos prancing around in bikinis. They said stupid, mean things on The View. They had a crappy apology. I was really disappointed in Whoopi's response of how we need to listen better. I think she's very smart, but that was a dumb thing to say.

Here's the thing -I don't watch the show, I don't know them personally so I don't understand why the show would need to be cancelled. Honestly, I'm tired of people losing their jobs because they said something stupid. We make such a big deal about our right to free speech, but we're quick to make sure other people don't get that right. That doesn't make any sense to me.

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Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

Not one hospital administrator has said a word about respecting the contribution of the Nursing profession in response to the inappropriate comments on the View.

Nurses united is their worst fear.

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I agree with everything you wrote. I also do not want people to lose their job.

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Do you hear these people griping about the mean comments people say about them? NO. However, the reaction from the nursing community is reflective of our insecurity as a profession IMHO.

That is a GREAT point, I didn't think of it that way.

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Specializes in ICU.
The View has said a lot of things about a lot of people. I wouldn't let that get to me.

Here is my main problem with this whole situation: First of all, I ABHORE the Miss America pageants. I think it's utterly ridiculous that this competition, which includes parading beautiful women around in ridiculous outfits, results in a scholarship. Why in the world is a bikini show criteria for this scholarship? My big problem is that The View attacked a contestant for delivering something atypical. Instead of strutting around with her boobs bouncing all over the place, she looked like a professional and delivered a monologue, which IS a talent. It takes talent to make an audience connect with you. She gave the audience a window into her emotions and her job. Her monologue built other nurses up while putting a spotlight on the value of her patients as human beings. I am mad for her. I'm mad that she put herself out there in a beautiful way and was attacked for it.

This is exactly what I said in a different thread. It bothers me that young women feel the need to get scholarships for school by showing their body and getting all made up. It bothers me that this is still around and makes me feel like we should be living 50-60 years ago where a woman had no rights and we were expected to stay at home and cook and clean and make your man happy.

There is nothing wrong at all with wanting to look your best every day. But you should be doing it for yourself and not for a bunch of men to judge you and decide which one is most beautiful and therefore deserves a bunch of prizes one of which is scholarships to attend school. I liked that Miss Co came out in scrubs with her hair in a ponytail. I was hoping that would grab the attention for people in a positive way.

Instead, these supposed progressive, liberal, women, mocked and gossiped about her. Then the ridiculous comments about the stethoscope came out and that her scrubs were a costume. When I saw the clip, I was like are they really this dumb and have lived in the Hollywood bubble so long that they have lost complete touch with reality?

I also worry about the general public that hangs on these women's every word and take it as gospel. I feel that if you are going to speak on a subject and have several million people watching, educate yourselves on it. Whether they like it or not, they are spokespeople who did a very bad job. I think that is why people are so mad. We are now living the Jenny McCarthy effect with vaccinations. Measles outbreaks are becoming more common place. Some very bad diseases will be coming back due to someone in a celebrity position being so poorly uneducated on a topic. And while their comments were not quite in the same realm, if the View portrays nurses as nothing more than maidens to doctors, the general public will not respect the education that nurses give them. It has a domino effect.

To me, that is my problem with the comments. And while I agree we should not give two hoots about what these women say at all, lots and lots of your patients do. And that is where the problem is going to come in. It's going to end up being the doctors' issues too when patients don't want to listen to what the nurse tells them because they are portrayed as idiots. You will start to hear, Get my doctor in here, I don't want you helping me!!! And why are you wearing a stethoscope? You are only a nurse, that belongs to a doctor!! You may already hear that here and there, but expect to hear it a lot more often now.

Someday, it will be called the Joy Behar Effect.

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Not one hospital administrator has said a word about respecting the contribution of the Nursing profession in response to the inappropriate comments on the View.

Nurses united is their worst fear.

I AMAZED THAT NOT ONE HOSPITAL OR AMA PUBLICLY BACKED US AS NURSES SAD...BUT TRUE ( I think personally they do not want to be accuse of not supporting the first amendment.

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This is exactly what I said in a different thread. It bothers me that young women feel the need to get scholarships for school by showing their body and getting all made up. It bothers me that this is still around and makes me feel like we should be living 50-60 years ago where a woman had no rights and we were expected to stay at home and cook and clean and make your man happy.

There is nothing wrong at all with wanting to look your best every day. But you should be doing it for yourself and not for a bunch of men to judge you and decide which one is most beautiful and therefore deserves a bunch of prizes one of which is scholarships to attend school. I liked that Miss Co came out in scrubs with her hair in a ponytail. I was hoping that would grab the attention for people in a positive way.

Instead, these supposed progressive, liberal, women, mocked and gossiped about her. Then the ridiculous comments about the stethoscope came out and that her scrubs were a costume. When I saw the clip, I was like are they really this dumb and have lived in the Hollywood bubble so long that they have lost complete touch with reality?

I also worry about the general public that hangs on these women's every word and take it as gospel. I feel that if you are going to speak on a subject and have several million people watching, educate yourselves on it. Whether they like it or not, they are spokespeople who did a very bad job. I think that is why people are so mad. We are now living the Jenny McCarthy effect with vaccinations. Measles outbreaks are becoming more common place. Some very bad diseases will be coming back due to someone in a celebrity position being so poorly uneducated on a topic. And while their comments were not quite in the same realm, if the View portrays nurses as nothing more than maidens to doctors, the general public will not respect the education that nurses give them. It has a domino effect.

To me, that is my problem with the comments. And while I agree we should not give two hoots about what these women say at all, lots and lots of your patients do. And that is where the problem is going to come in. It's going to end up being the doctors' issues too when patients don't want to listen to what the nurse tells them because they are portrayed as idiots. You will start to hear, Get my doctor in here, I don't want you helping me!!! And why are you wearing a stethoscope? You are only a nurse, that belongs to a doctor!! You may already hear that here and there, but expect to hear it a lot more often now.

Someday, it will be called the Joy Behar Effect.

I agree with EVERYTHING you stated these comments made by the host of the View cross all social demographics . I already experienced the comment made by the host of the View the other day at my new job( Yes, I got a new job. Old thread about workplace bullying if anyone was wondering) . That is another reason what propelled me to start this thread. However, I am torn because the View is such an amazing platform, but the host and producers are not using it at what it can be they could discuss their view ( excuse the pun) but do not have put down people or professions.My mother remind me to speak to people and about them as though you they are family and begin to change your tone and at time your perspective.

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