...Image of Nursing Paper Sarah ITT Technical Institute NU100-Nursion Roles Due Date: October 22, 2015 Abstract The image of nursing has changed many times over the years and will continue to change until long after we are gone. “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scrubs” have an impact on people’s views of nursing along with other medical shows. Most individuals are able to separate what they see on television while others are strongly impacted and now have a negative view on nursing. The Image of Nursing The image of nursing is forever changing. The image has changed drastically since nursing was first brought to light. This nursing student compared two articles. The first being “Changing media images of nursing is key to promoting it as a profession” and the second being “How the Media Influences Perceptions of Nursing”. This nursing student compared the similarities of these articles and found that both articles believe that people are influenced in some sort of way when it comes to “Grey’s Anatomy” or “Scrubs”. Both articles also believed that the media and guidance personnel strongly influences individuals that want to go into the field of nursing. They both state that this is due to students being told that they are too smart for nursing or how the media portrays a nurse’s salary and benefits. This nursing student compared the differences of these articles and found that in the article by Debra Wood, it is believed that people have the ability to separate what they...
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...Public Image of Nursing Historically, the public image of nursing has been controversial this was evident by nurse healers being viewed as witches in the middle ages. As Minkowski (1992) conclusion indicated the nurse healers were viewed as “creatures in the league of the devil” and currently, the media has been covering negative images of nursing. This media coverage includes images of neglect in nursing care, poor performance results and lawsuits. Ads on the local television channels by law firms reporting poor nursing care, the television show “Mash” calling a nurse “hot lips” on just about each show, and the television show “House” left the viewer to perceive nursing as almost obsolete, has negatively impacted the profession of nursing. To alleviate the negative perception and image of the nursing profession, education to the public will need to occur. Nurses have quietly accepted ignorance, regarding their profession, in the past, due to the lack of urgency in the matter. With the health care crisis, the profession of nursing has been a hot point topic. In Kazis et al.’s (2009) article that analyzed media coverage, it was suggested that the public has little understanding of what a nurse actually does. Personal collaboration with professional nursing organizations could give a nurse a voice in the regulatory process and help in the education of the general public. In conclusion, mastering public speaking on a professional nurse’s role coupled with joining...
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...Image of Nursing Chinedu Remigius Udu ITT Technical Institute Course Number (NU100) 09/21/2015 According to the authors Rezaei-Adaryani, Salsali, Mohammadi (2012) one of the many challenges contemporary nurses would have had to overcome is the concept of the image of nursing. According to the findings of the research that was conducted in the past based on the review of retrieved integrative Internet English Literature published from 1980 – 2011, it was shown that Nursing Image is a multi- dimensional, all-inclusive, paradoxical, dynamic, and complex concept. 1. Furthermore, the image of nursing as perceived from a cultural perspective can be very challenging. According to the authors Valizada, Zamanzadeh, Fooladi, Azadi, Negarandeh, Manadi (2014) the term “Nurse” in Iranian language called “Parastar” is a word that evokes the image of a duty maid, household maid or low-income laborer. Nurses are seen as someone with limited or no educational background. This negative profiling of the nursing profession in the Iranian society has made it extremely necessary for nurses to redefine themselves in areas of specialized health care with the intent of improving their social status and public image. Another negative image of nursing is the flirtatious perception the public has of female nurses. Female nurses are stereotyped as slim, attractive and full bosomed, who wear tight knee length uniforms with high heel shoes. This readily creates the impression that female nurses are...
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...I believe the media can both positively and negatively influence the public’s image of nursing. Showtime airs a program called Nurse Jackie in which she is portrayed in a dual light both as an advocate for her patients care despite being harsh, brash and ruffling feathers along the way. She is involved an extra marital affair and she is dealing with a problem with personal drug addiction and consequently steals medications from the pyxis to get her fix. I appreciate the program for its humorous side as it provides some real examples of day to day struggles in nursing care. The program does not portray nurses as being perfect but as humans that deal with some of the same daily struggles the public may be dealing with also. It is representative of how we dedicate our lives to caring for others but sometimes forget to put ourselves on our own list of priorities. Nurses are caregivers at home and work hence we may lose ourselves somewhere along the way. Having worked in nursing for a very long time I have practiced with many nurses who have fallen into drug addiction as portrayed in Nurse Jackie. It is perhaps a negative view portrayed for nursing, but it is also a portrayal of real life that we must be willing to accept as well. I have worked with other nurses who were appalled by the program about Jackie. Negative or positive it is a realistic example of what some nurses go through in their lives. Another program that is now cancelled portrayed the CNO at a hospital...
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...influences to the profession of nursing. In my response, I’ve chosen to comment on how it can be a positive effect. Even though the portrayals of nurses on television shows at times are very unrealistic, I think medical-drama television shows such as “SCRUBS” and “ER” can actually promote nursing in some ways. Episodes about doctors and nurses’ heroic efforts to save or help out victims in natural disasters (hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.) and accidents (car, fire, etc.) can promote a positive image for the profession. When I was a young kid, I was inspired to become like one of those television nurses and doctors so I can help people! Watching TV was probably one of my first exposures to the profession. The doctors and nurses were Super Heroes to me. With our current 24/7 news outlets, the media can provide a “channel” to health professionals (such as first responders, nurses, etc.) who help at “news worthy” natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. When the viewer sees the health professionals’ compassion, competency and commitment to the public, this strikes a positive connection with the public. Another good example is the recent case of the Texas Nurse, Nina Pham, who was exposed to the Ebola virus via treatment of one of her patients. The media coverage “positively depicted” her as a caring and compassion nurse who served bravely during the United States’ first Ebola outbreak. This displayed a strong culture of caring for the nursing community. In my personal...
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...Nursing Role in Helping Burn Patient’s Coping Abilities with Body image and Self-esteem Abida Sultana NU201: Family Focused Nursing November 16, 2012 Part I: Clinical Narrative and Clinical Question: It was my 2nd pediatric clinical weekend; I was still trying to cope with my first clinical experiences at Shriners. I couldn’t sleep the night before, checked on my daughter several times (more than usual) to make sure she was safe. It was an overcast, dark, very quiet Saturday morning as I made my way into Shriner’s Hospital. All the way to the hospital from my home, the only thing on my mind was “who is waiting for me today”? Is the patient going to be a toddler, infant, or adolescent? Can he or she speak English? If not how am I going to communicate with him or her? My heart started beating even faster, while I was waiting for my instructor to come and take us to the patient floor. At 6:30, we went up to the 3rd floor and our instructor assigned each of us a patient. My patient Flora, is a thirteen year old adolescent female from Guatemala. She has sustained 70% body surface area flame burn including face, chest, and back, upper and lower extremities in November of 2001. It was a total mystery what had happened, how she was burned. The person who saved her stated that the patient’s legs were tied together by her sister. Some others stated that she was burned from the flames of the fire crackers. After going to the 7th floor...
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...situations in her life. To Jada Pinkett Smith in the television series ‘Hawthorn’ where she took on the role of Chief Nursing Officer and showed her passion for her job although being faced with challenges in her personal life . All these characters are fictitious and none of them accurately portrayed the true challenges that nurses face every day in their daily roles. It is important that with Healthcare becoming more and more complex and health insurance mandating care educating the public is crucial. Implementing new and creative ways to educate the public is also important. As a Case manager my colleagues and I realized the importance of education of the public and we used Case Management week (from October 11-17 2015) to increase the publics knowledge in the role of case manager. We found effective ways and tools to stimulate and educate the public we used the hospital’s intranet, had fairs with the use of poster boards with bold direct literature about the topic in hand, and found ways to keep it exciting and engaging for the public. Now in the in the day and age of the “super highway’ we are fortunate to have this great easy and accessible tool and this is a great source of educating the public, with applications such as Facebook Twitter, Instagram and television are all means of promoting and educating the public and put forth the message about nursing and our ever changing roles....
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...public becomes familiar with the role of nurses. How do the media positively or negatively influence the public’s image of nursing? What other avenues may better educate the general public on the role and scope of nursing as well as the changing health care system? The media is known to have immense influences on the public perception from body images to what kind of car people should buy. And the nursing image is not immune to these influences. What Hollywood transmits to the public about nurse’s works much like an advertising industry. Television has represented nurses in varying degrees and not all of them are flattering. We have been portrayed as handmaidens, angels to naughty nurses, crusty battle-axes, incompetent nurses, or drug addicted nurses. Television shows such as House, Nurse Jackie, Hawthorne, Gray’s Anatomy, and Scrubs frequently draw on nursing stereotypes that have the potential to damage the professional nursing image. Just as people are influenced by commercial or political ads, they will be influenced by these shows as well. These images of nursing on medical shows can affect roles in recruitment and retention for the profession. In a survey of student perceptions of nursing image on television, one student noted, “the public could be influenced by nursing on television and draw attention to the consequences of negative depictions of nursing because the public can develop a false view of the profession, where people may believe nurses are simply the...
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...Upheld By Character Character is built upon strength and compassion. To be quite honest, I happened upon this photo as I was rummaging through the mountains of pictures my mother has collected over the years. To my knowledge, I have never seen this before but I feel as though this photo gives an extremely detailed overview of my life. The fate of most photographs usually consists of being overlooked and cast into the attic, yet every picture is a reminder of an important memory. However, photos such as school pictures, which can be seen throughout my house, seem useless to me. Often times in these pictures emotion tries to be built or controlled. A moment deserves to be captured when the subjects in it find themselves unable to hold back a smile or a prideful smirk not when one is forged. What good is a memory if it lacks emotion, the backbone of a picture? It is obvious that in my picture we are not overtaken by joy, however, emotion engulfs this photo. Determination and faith can be found in this mirror of a memory. My father has his hands around mine, preventing me from falling into the abyss. Maybe to an average person it would be called a swimming pool, but convincing the 3 month old version of myself that that was true would be quite a feat. This second nature act of protection is not what drew me to this photo. It was no great accomplishment to stand on the first step of the pool, true. A father has an innate desire for the well-being of his child, also true. But the...
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...This is about my still image analysis of my pictures I posted on Facebook. On Facebook I have posted some pictures that are semiotic. Semiotics is the study of signs. This may includes signs devised to convey meanings “....language, badges as well as 'symptoms' as in that’s the sign of swine flu'”. (Branston 12) Potency involves the strong or weak signs of semiotics that appear in the image. The sign in this image is that of me wear a suit with a sign of economic stature, which is the definition of symbolic sign. Most people where suit like the one I have in the picture and have some type of corporate job and make very good money. This makes the image a connotative image it represents an idea or mental image of a thing rather than the thing itself. The denotative meaning of the image is a guy in a nice suit poses to get his picture taken. The definition of denotative is the literal meaning of what you see in the picture. When I post this picture on Facebook the audience for whom the picture was for was my Facebook friends. My mom somehow saw it and she doesn’t have a Facebook account. Then I realize some of the people who are my Facebook friends are also her co workers and they commented on the picture. I don’t really care who sees the picture because it’s my own personal count with some friends and family members. What I hope people get out of this is that I look nice in a suit and tie. I look at it more like a professional selfie form a distance as it was shoot by a photographer...
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...Research Essay 1 This essay is to be no less than 2 pages long. Susan Sontag’s essay Regarding the Pain of Others brings forth many atrocities of war. I would like you to choose an atrocity mentioned in the essay which will be the basis of your research paper. As you research you will come across pictures and photographs that are suppose to “show” you what was occurring during the time of the atrocity; however as you view such photographs I would like you to address ONE of Sontag’s ideas below which will become your essay topic: 1) Photographs do not assist in the comprehension of a situation, that is up to writers to create narratives that help in understanding 2) Meanings from photos are free floating, and can only be grounded by words 3) The photograph is not an objective mirror, but an expressive medium capable of portraying multiple realities. 4) Intentions are not inherent in photography, meaning is situational and in flux – this is in keeping with the previous key idea. The photograph itself is capable of “speaking” for itself only so much. It requires an interpreter. And it is the agenda of this interpreter that the photograph assumes. The photograph itself has no agenda; it takes on the one of who is interpreting for it. Part Two You are to create a power point presentation of the atrocity you discussed in your research paper which is to include both pictures and text. You may also choose to streamline videos...
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...Mashell Chapeyama Topic: Art History Year 2012 Level: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration The French revolution and Painting The French revolution had a big impact on art. It brought in new themes to art. The following are some of the themes that emerged: • Democracy • Reconciliation • Patriotism • Rising against unfair rulers • Battle-scenes Some paintings that emerged from the French revolution heightened the need for democracy. Before the revolution most nations were ruled by dictators, most of whom were monarchies. For example there were some paintings that showed the democratic legacy of Greece and Rome. Patriotism was also portrayed. For example the picture entitled the Coronation of Josephine. This was a great piece of art. The painter wanted to illustrate that Napoleon was the legitimate ruler of France. The earlier paintings related to this showed the sketches of Napoleon crowning himself. On the other hand the picture of Gericault showed how people can attack the government. It has some revolutionary connotation. It seemed like inciting people to fight mistrusted rulers. Some pictures showed what happened in wars. One painting shows Napoleon crossing the alps on his horse. This showed his victories in wars. Napoleon was a successful fighter. The other pictures show the people fleeing from battle fields. Some were refugees fleeing their homes. One painting of David show what happens in revolutions. It was entitled, “Oath of Horiatis”. It also...
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...the left side of the brain, there will be a jump in amplitude where the lesion occurs, something like: 3. Ultrasonic B-scans are used to create 2-D cross sectional images of the structure of interest. A solid ball would create merely a filled in circle; a tennis ball filled with air would create an image of a outer rim with empty space inside, as shown below: 4. The three controls that a technician uses on an x-ray machine are the voltage adjustment, mA control and the exposure timer. The voltage adjustment is used to control the penetrating power of the beam. A greater penetrating power will decrease the contrast of the image. The mA control is used to determine the current which flows through the filament in the cathode. This changes the number of photons produced, which affects the blackness of the image. Finally, the exposure timer is combined with the mA control to manipulate the darkness of the image. 5. Grids improve the image sharpness when a relatively thick body part is being imaged by maximizing the number of primary photons to pass through to the film, and interacting with the secondary photons to decrease the chance of secondary photons hitting the film. 6. CT scans use multiple x-rays or the rotation of a single x-ray rather than a single straight-forward x-ray to create the final image. The rotational motion of the scanner makes the target area...
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...the picture and helps me make the story flow. What have you learned about structuring and developing a visual interpretation of a piece of writing? It’s easier to visualise what is happening and make it easier for the audience to interpret what I am trying to say through my words, song and pictures Why did you select the piece of music that you did? I selected a piano cover; I believed that the best song to help my story flow was to include a piano cover sound track. Explain how the overall impact of your piece has been affected/ enhanced by the images, music and narration? The photos involved in the photo story were a mixture of black and white photos and coloured pictures, the black and white pictures I used to make it back my message of it being something bad and the coloured ones are use to represent the things that were happening at the time. What do you believe you will need to do to ensure that the impact of the images, music and narration are conveyed in a piece of imaginative or personal reflective writing? To make sure they all are combined to make the perfect dish and also involve the right music, photos and speech to keep my story on...
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...problem under discussion. * Photo Editors Photo Editors are those software that are used to manipulate, enhance, and transform images on a computer. With the advancement in technology, now a huge number of photo editors are available online i.e. there is no need to download photo editing software. There are hundreds of such software available and they all provide almost same functionality. Some basic features of such software are crop, resize, merge, and liquefy, adding texture, changing color and so on. * Adverse Use of Photo Editors * Photo editing can be used to destroy company’s reputation. Edited pictures, with fake results/effects of the product can be used to displease their consumers. * Edited pictures such as attaching someone’s face to someone else’s body can be used to give threats. The victim can be forced that way to provide money to the editor or obey his orders. * Companies can use it for fraud. They might show fake pictures to the customers and convince them to use their products. * Sometimes people use editors to display fake story. That story might get viral over the internet and bring fame/satisfaction to the person who created it. * Photo editors can be used to easily remove the water mark from pictures, documents etc. and steal someone’s work. * Effects of Edited Images on Society * Such images change the mind set of people. Extreme use of editing in fashion industry to show models slim and flawless is making millions of...
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