The Stethoscope

[Flyboy17]

I"m sure that I will recieve a lot of negative comments from so many nurses. But I'm tired of this Stethoscope debackle. The View hosts are both ignorant and very opinionated, but one comment does not mean that they should be cancelled. I have been hit and cursed and spat on but I continue to do my job everyday. I still cant get over how many people are so upset and offended over her ignorant comment, when all of us have dealt with so much worse in the past.

As a current Cath/EP Lab nurse and previous ED nurse, I have dealt with so much worse from entitled brats to drunk ladies. I've heard it and seen it all. I have never seen a single episode of The View but I can say that I will not stand for the push to cancel them. We can not be that easily offended to cancel a television show over a stupid comment then go to work and have a drunk man throw a punch at me or have a little lady call me sexy.

I'm over the stethoscope.

[TriciaJ, RN]

I think The View should be cancelled because it never had any redeeming value. Compared to those women, Gilligan's Island sounds like intelligent discourse.

[nurseactivist]

I do not believe the hosts at The View should be fired or the show cancelled. My reasoning is different from the OP. I don't follow the logic, don't fire the host because nurses get assaulted.

The fact is, that work place violence or the threat of violence is higher in Health Care than any other industry. Work place violence or even the threat of violence should be immediately reported. Quickly looking it up and stats are old (2010)

"(IR) of 249 per 10,000 workers, more than seven times the average for all industries."

I also disagree that I am tired of the topic. I believe that 700,000 nurses did not sign on to facebook and post so strongly because the issue was just the The View hosts. What I saw, were nurses saying they were misunderstood, disrespected, undervalued and over worked. Nurses had found their voice and were comfortable with Face Book. (I on the other hand, was a wreck, can you say older nurse, posting on a public FB site for the first time).

To me, this is an incredible opportunity to advocate for change. I want to watch and see if the empowerment experience with The View helps nurses feel more ready to act and more willing to advocate for themselves.

[Jasel, BSN, RN]

Personally I thought the response they got was over the top. It's a silly show, with silly women who say silly things more often than not. If anything I thought they owed Kelley Johnson (Miss Colorado) an apology. I was more offended on her behalf than anything. Was I personally offended by what they said? Not really. I thought it was ignorant but there are millions of people in this country who don't really get or care what nurses do. These ladies just happened to put it on display on national television. While I love my job (well most days ) and am grateful that I got into this profession, I think some nurses out there need to stop taking themselves so seriously.

[skyjockey1957]

There time will come when they are choking on one of their hairball jokes and a nurse saves them from their near death experience. Or one of their loved ones is in hospice and they look to the nurse for answers. I've seen it and you've seen it so hold your head up high and give the "View" the one finger salute!!!

[Purple_roses]

IMO, it just makes nurses look foolish and defensive when we (as a group) get so worked up over such a minor matter. The comments reflect more on the ignorance of the show hosts than they do on nurses, and what difference does any of this make?

It's not just the nurses who are upset. Almost everyone who has heard about it seems to be upset. What can we say, people like nurses.

[LDAthleteNurse, BSN, RN]

It's not just the nurses who are upset. Almost everyone who has heard about it seems to be upset. What can we say, people like nurses.

Nope. It's mainly just the nurses..

[elkpark]

I think The View should be cancelled because it never had any redeeming value. Compared to those women, Gilligan's Island sounds like intelligent discourse.

Most of the stuff on television, esp. daytime television, has no "redeeming value." It's entertainment, that's all it claims to be, what were you expecting? I can't imagine why anyone is making a big deal out of this. It just makes us look silly.

[Cola89]

I am against cancelling a show over one offensive comment. Some companies with any interest in nursing (lol) could pull their advertising money and that would be fine with me, but cancelling the whole show--- why?

I think what outrages some of us nurses is that our job IS incredibly difficult for various reasons (just like you said) and it's upsetting that we don't get any respect or recognition of that by rich jewish talk show hosts like Joy, who are theoretically supposed to kind of be a "view" and a television voice for women. Not ME, but that's how it may be looked at by some. Such insults directed toward a female dominated profession by a woman almost feels like lateral violence.

[elkpark]

... it's upsetting that we don't get any respect or recognition of that by rich jewish talk show hosts like Joy ....

Is there some way that her faith is relevant to this? Would the situation be different if she were Christian?

[Mulan]

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[Mulan]

Is there some way that her faith is relevant to this? Would the situation be different if she were Christian?

Actually, she's not Jewish.

Leaving the Fold: Joy Behar Explains Her Agnosticism | God Discussion

"Joy Behar, co-host of "The View" and host of her own show on HLM, was raised Catholic when she grew up in Brooklyn. She now considers herself to be agnostic."

[SmilingBluEyes]

I don't get why we keep debating taking the show off the air. We are not going to effect that kind of change as a group. Bigger fish to fry, really. Don't like it; don't watch it. If you feel that strongly, boycott sponsors. Then move on.