Negative Portrayal Of Nurses In The Media Essay

Nursing is an honorable and skillful profession, it requires years of training and education. The purpose of this paper is to bring attention to the negative portrayal of nurses in the media and how it does not reflect the reality of what nurse’s do. I completed my search by using the sites CINAHL, Proquest, google scholar, and youtube. I used the restrictions; image of nurs*, and stereo*, and I set the databases to find peer reviewed articles within 2008 to 2015 in the English language. The media portrays nursing in a negative manner and the public fails to regard what the job of nurses are in the real world. The media has portrayed the image of nursing in a negative way, a current example of this is the Dr. Pepper commercial that aired in 2009 worldwide (Canada Dry Mott’s Inc). The nurse was working in a school and was portrayed as an incompetent, clumsy, and uneducated elderly women. The conversation the nurse had with a school boy was inappropriate and displayed nurses in a negative way. They did this by making it seem that nurses have hardly any medical education and poor communication skills. The nurse was dressed as an average elderly women, and did not look like a professional nurse. In the Dr. Pepper …show more content…
People in the public begin to generate negative connotations toward nursing, this further declines the nursing image (Price & McGillis Hall, 2014). In the case that they have to see a nurse in the health care setting they may be more skeptical of the care provided by nurses. (Cabaniss, 2011). Lastly the public may see the inappropriate media portrayal of nurses and have an inaccurate assumption of how professional they are, the media does not give justice to how professional and regulated all nurses must be and how they are advocates for the public, even though the public does not always understand what their job