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.
Okay. Honesty rears its' ugly head. I really loath the show. Watched clips of it a few times. *Never* a full show. That would be WAY too much for me. I Loathed it before this episode of hatred against the "Miss America Nurse". So, YES....I would love to hear the show will not rear its' ugly head again. That's just me.
AFAIK, we don't get the view in the UK, but the issue seems to be they were making judgements on Miss Colorado's talent portion saying nursing is not a talent, it might not be a super talent like performing magic tricks while singing opera on a galloping horse, but it's still more talented than being a whiny judge on a pointless show. Also they were assuming that nurses don't have stethoscopes, but it's a well known that American nurses use stethoscopes frequently, you don't even need to go into a hospital to know that. Unfortunately nurses using stethoscopes in the UK is quite rare, but we're too busy sitting at the nurses station eating chocolates anyway.
Specializes in Critical Care, Med-Surg, Psych, Geri, LTC, Tele,.
In what manner have nurses embarrassed our profession by expressing our disapproval?
I read that some (few) nurses have made rude comments to the hosts of the view.
But what else have "we" done as a profession? I sincerely want to know, because, I feel that the very public insults made to the nursing profession by the view cast deserves to be called out, professionally.
I can't get over how we as nurses look so easily offended when as a profession we deal with so much worse when it comes to verbal abuse, bullying, and hard work. I have heard so much worse than a "Doctor's Stethoscope" and had to shrug it off because it is my job to take care of people.
Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.
I've seen others say that we should consider the source. Yes, we should.
Don't forget that these women are paid to be rude, confrontational and argumentative. It's how they get ratings and viewers.
They appeal to the lowest common denominator-people who feel that they have no power, and see four women who say what they want, shout down anyone who doesn't agree with them, and generally act like they have the biggest gonads in town.
Nurses have risen up and united (for probably a brief time) over some comments that I sincerely doubt were as "off the cuff" as they seemed. I just think they underestimated the repercussions of p***ing off 3 million potential or actual viewers, and were forced to do an Olympic Backpedal (predictably forced and insincere).
I would prefer that my sister and brother Nurses spend their time uniting over the things that really matter-workload, staffing, safety, etc. We also need to remember that we are professionals, and project that attitude in our daily lives.
But that doesn't mean we can't have fun while we're doing it...
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I agree. I LIKE the momentum and solidarity that this has brought to nursing. Let's keep that going.
Just think how much we could change things, staffing, pay, etc, if we used this emotion in a good direction.
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And why do we care if Joy is Jewish or not?