Stereotypes have always been prevalent in the profession of nursing, most of which are negative and degrading. Many of these stereotypes have derived from how nursing is portrayed to the public through media sources such as television shows, movies, and commercials. The purpose of this essay is to identify and expand on the image of the professional nurse and how the media perceives it to be in comparison to three scholarly articles, which accurately reflect the nursing profession. The media source of which the three scholarly articles will be compared to is a film named Meet The Parents, more specifically a clip where Greg Focker is explaining his career choice of a nurse to his fiancées condescending parents. This essay will discuss how
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Greg is wearing half-buttoned pajamas with his hair a mess, while Pam and her family are dressed classy and well groomed. Greg presents himself as a passive, average male who is more sensitive and not as intelligent unlike his fiance’s family who mock him. Greg has to explain as to why he is a nurse since they cannot grasp the concept that someone would choose to be a nurse when they have the option to pursue a career like a doctor, and the fact that Greg wrote his MCAT yet still decided to be a nurse astonished both of them. When he finally builds the confidence to defend himself and his nursing career, Pam’s mother interrupts him to diffuse the situation and to prevent hurting the men’s egos. In this clip Greg is chastised because he is a male nurse, which makes him a minority and is not respected because males aren’t seen as efficient nurses, one has an image of a male nurse in their head as very feminen and simple-minded. The audience of this specific clip is geared to an older audience and to nurses in general to show that male nurses, aren’t shown respect by all professions, like in this clip for …show more content…
Even though the image of the male and female nurses have been improving over time there are still many misconceptions and misunderstandings of what nurses do and how complex their career really is. How Greg Focker explains his career choice of a nurse to his fiancées condescending parents was analyzed. It was discussed how this affects the views of nurses, how this media resource specifically affects the public views of nursing and finally I compared my findings with scholarly articles on the image of nursing (hkeener,
Greg is wearing half-buttoned pajamas with his hair a mess, while Pam and her family are dressed classy and well groomed. Greg presents himself as a passive, average male who is more sensitive and not as intelligent unlike his fiance’s family who mock him. Greg has to explain as to why he is a nurse since they cannot grasp the concept that someone would choose to be a nurse when they have the option to pursue a career like a doctor, and the fact that Greg wrote his MCAT yet still decided to be a nurse astonished both of them. When he finally builds the confidence to defend himself and his nursing career, Pam’s mother interrupts him to diffuse the situation and to prevent hurting the men’s egos. In this clip Greg is chastised because he is a male nurse, which makes him a minority and is not respected because males aren’t seen as efficient nurses, one has an image of a male nurse in their head as very feminen and simple-minded. The audience of this specific clip is geared to an older audience and to nurses in general to show that male nurses, aren’t shown respect by all professions, like in this clip for …show more content…
Even though the image of the male and female nurses have been improving over time there are still many misconceptions and misunderstandings of what nurses do and how complex their career really is. How Greg Focker explains his career choice of a nurse to his fiancées condescending parents was analyzed. It was discussed how this affects the views of nurses, how this media resource specifically affects the public views of nursing and finally I compared my findings with scholarly articles on the image of nursing (hkeener,