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.

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

Words in my opinion can hurt more than physically someone.

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My random thoughts..

I don't think nor care about what some low brow commentator on a Jerry springer-esque talk show says about a beauty pageant contestant's talent bit.

If you want the public to know what nurses do with a stethoscope, show them, use it in a professional manner, listen to their lungs and tell them what you hear and what you're going to do about it.

This whole reaction is misplaced and little girlish. If you want respect, command it with your professional actions and interactions, not empty insecure outrage over some irrelevant dolt making ignorant comments.

If you don't like how you're treated at work, get off Facebook and show them with your feet and/or organize.

Also might want to start with all 750,000 nurses influencing their own friends and family re the nursing profession, and to stop watching stupid TV.

2 different nurses can have an encounter with a patient and leave 2 very different impressions, apparently we as a group aren't leaving the impression we think is an accurate representation. If we were, *we* wouldn't be having to post our own memes on social media.

28 years an RN, never had anyone disparage my role. And they've all known my stethoscope is for more than taking a blood pressure.

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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!

Nurses do not need a point person we are good advocates on our and we know how to unite and express our concerns. What those comments did was prove how strong we are as a nursing community. In my opinion we need to have more discussions on how we are going to unite for safe staffing, education, and more.

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
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.

And I think you have a misunderstanding of the First Amendment. It guarantees that the government will not interfere with one's right to free speech. It does not mean that private entities have to respect that same right- hence why facilities have social media policies that can include disciplinary actions. It also does not guarantee freedom from consequences of utilizing the right to free speech.

I also think this whole The View situation, while at least getting nurses to unite despite our differences, is not where we need to concentrate our efforts. There are so many other issues facing nursing that should be the priority.

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I thought the reactions to original show on The View and subsequent pseudo-apology were hilarious.

Using a sense of humor helps, in my opinion. The memes and photos from nurses and doctors all over the country really resonated with me. I appreciated how many doc stepped up and supported nursing.

I guess I just don't see why we have to do things only one way to be "professional".

Black humor in the break room saves our sanity as medical pro's. In my opinion.

Why not use some humor with the public in some capacity as well?

The folks on The View stepped in it . . .they shouldn't have done that.

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I just read this thread and I love how it was written. please read and share#NursesUnited: Can we continue the momentum for necessary change?

Do not forget to answer the poll question I really want to know if the view should be cancelled.

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People joke about running out s/p report because they could be with their love ones or how cute they look when shift start and how the makeup and hair look at the end. Sometime we come into work with one scrub and leave with a different one. It is true, but we make jokes because it so serious we are dealing with life and death and at the end of a 12 hour shift you need to joke around and not be so serious.

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[h=1]Why I am not Surprised by Joy Behar's Ignorant Comments[/h]by Lynda Lampert, RN

Amazing article. A good read please read this article.

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In nursing school you do get plenty of real world R.N experience and if it was like my school you have 12 hour shifts after fundamentals. One semester was clinical one semester lecture I will not discredit nor agree that this individual has no experience. I am glad she expressed her profession as her talent because being a nurse is a talent. 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. This why I started this poll and thread.
I just want to point out that no one has *any* RN experience whatsoever until they pass the NCLEX and work as a registered nurse.

I don't care how much clinical time you had in school. That is not "real" RN work, not by a long shot. Maybe that sounds nitpicky, but thinking nursing students have "plenty of real world RN experience" is delusional.

And I'm not sure I agree that being a nurse is a talent, either.

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I really want to hear back from as much people as possible about whether the view should be cancelled because I am reading the different articles and threads. If the blogs are right 5 advertisers pulled out. Please do not forget to answer the polling question and share.

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While I think it was an incredibly ignorant and stupid thing to say, I have to admit that I am not understanding the depth of the outrage over this.

So some aging bimbo on TV thinks that only doctors use stethoscopes. So what?

The way the role of nursing is minimized or ignored on all those hospital dramas we all seem to love has probably done more to undermine the public's perception of nurses then people like Joy Behr.

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While I think it was an incredibly ignorant and stupid thing to say, I have to admit that I am not understanding the depth of the outrage over this.

So some aging bimbo on TV thinks that only doctors use stethoscopes. So what?

The way the role of nursing is minimized or ignored on all those hospital dramas we all seem to love has probably done more to undermine the public's perception of nurses then people like Joy Behr.

The only big deal, IMO, was how idiotic Joy B.'s statement sounded. And I would expect advertisers to react to it and withdraw their business and they did. Other than that...no problems.

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