...Based on the video, characteristics of being a nurse is to care, nurture, be noble, and be a woman. Many people assume that nurses only work in hospitals, according to Christina Easey, who works in administration. Society is ignorant to the fact that nurses work in many different places including nursing homes, assisted living centers, and schools. Numerous people in the video said that the role of nurses is to take care of the sick, give medications, and assist the doctor. In the video, Gayle Bradley a CNA and RN, explains the history of how nursing stereotypes have come about. When she was in nursing school there were many women who wanted to be nurses so they could find and marry a doctor. They were flirty and provocative at times. This...
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...sample size and population, the researchers used a large sampling size from males in nursing. To obtain the responses needed, researchers used surveys to get an understanding of when, where, and type of discrimination those males were exposed to. With the study setting, it focused on males who were in nursing school along with males who are currently working as nurses in the medical field. Regarding the sampling method, the researchers used a non-probable sampling, this is due to the number of male nurses and students in society today. The population size for this study is not large enough to use a probability sample. I believe the researchers used an inter-rater reliability tool as well as sampling validity as a measuring tool in their study. With inter-rater reliability “... [it measures the] reliability used to assess the degree to which different judges or raters agree in their decisions” (Phelan & Wren, n.d.). Since the males were given the ability to choose their responses, the researchers could assess their decisions and determine the percentage of how many answered with a specific choice. As for sampling validity “… [it] ensures that the measure covers the broad range of areas within the concept under study” (Phelan & Wren, n.d.). By covering both the males in nursing school and who work in the hospital, the researchers can...
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...The Image of the Professional Nurse Nursing is a profession that has a long, and rich history. Modern nursing began in the Crimean War with Florence Nightingale, where it evolved from a humble, over-looked, and usually religious occupation, for unmarried or matronly women. Using the CINAHL database, and the search terms stereotypes in nursing, and nursing stereotypes, to find information regarding the professional image of nursing, it is obvious that it is an image that has changed drastically since first becoming a profession. In the modern day and age, there is a demand for people to enter the professional field as nurses, and they are accepting of everyone. However, despite the wide acceptance there now is for anyone to become a nurse, there...
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...public view nursing? From its earliest beginnings, the profession of nursing has revolved around human needs. One of the greatest strengths of nursing is the extensive range of opportunities and options that it has to offer. There are many different levels of practice, specialties, and there are always opportunities to advance in the nursing profession. With nurses playing a major role in designing the new healthcare system in the United States, now there is an even greater need for a positive public image of nursing. However, nursing's contributions to healthcare may be transparent or even ignored by the public and the media. The media has an immense effect on the perceptions of society. Therefore, any misrepresentation of the nursing profession by the media may negatively affect nursing's public image. As nurses, we have a responsibility to the entire nursing profession to protect our image, and take action to ensure that the public is not mislead by the media. Over time, there have been many images of nurses purported by the media. Nurses play roles in movies, television series, plays, books, and in reality they may be seen on the news or in newspapers. Some suggest that these media portrayals are solely to blame for the public's misconceptions or stereotypes regarding nursing. In actuality, the public image of nursing has evolved as the nursing profession has evolved, even before media influence was a factor. In the late 1800's through early 1900's, nursing was viewed as...
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...noble profession. 1. Negative Stereotype Noted in the...
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...(2014). Men in nursing on television: exposing and reinforcing stereotypes. Journal Of Advanced Nursing, 70(4), 833-842 10p. doi:10.1111/jan.12244 Previous research has highlighted stereotypical images around nurses; more recent research focuses on images of male nurses. While images of men in nursing on television are fictional, such images have potentially negative implications for recruitment, practice, and the profession. In this qualitative study, five American medical television programs appearing between 2007 and 2010 were analyzed for their portrayal of men in nursing. The objectives of the study were to establish whether men in nursing on television are subject to the same stereotypes identified in previous research, to determine if the characters on television conform to conventional stereotypes of masculinity, and to explore the status and role of the men who nurse in these programs. The study results showed television male nurse characters portrayed in narrow, stereotypical ways in which their masculinity, sexuality, and career choice are questioned. Contemporary nursing practice is impacted by how male nurses are portrayed in the media, as demasculinized images of male nurses may discourage males from considering nursing as a viable profession. The student found this study to be valid and current. An analysis of the study demonstrates the need to raise awareness among nursing professionals of some of the perceptions and stereotypes regarding...
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...Ambivalent Sexism and Role Congruity on Perceptions of Men and Women in Nursing Advertisements Kimberley A. Clow & Rosemary Ricciardelli & Wally J. Bartfay # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 Abstract Framed by role congruity and ambivalent sexism, the current study is designed to investigate perceptions of male and female nurses. Specifically, 167 Canadian undergraduates from Southern Ontario viewed a potential nursing recruitment advertisement (female nurse, male nurse, or masculinity emphasized male nurse), reported their perceptions of the nurse in the advertisement, and rated the appropriateness of nursing as a career for men and women. MANOVAs revealed that participants viewed the male nurses more negatively (less competent and more deviant) in the masculinity emphasized condition than the male nurse condition, which is consistent with role congruity theory. Correlations further revealed that men in the male nurse condition and women in the masculinity emphasized condition who were higher in hostile sexism were more likely to rate the depicted male nurse as deviant than their lower scoring peers. Female participants rated nursing as a more appropriate career for men than did male participants, suggesting that resistance toward male nurses may stem primarily from other men. The ambivalent sexism scores of men and women related differently in each condition to ratings of the appropriateness of nursing as a career for men and women, suggesting a complex relationship...
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...My choice of nursing A nurse, a health care professional who is engaged in the practice of nursing to assist the treatment, safety and recovery of acutely or chronically ill or injured people. Nurses can promote health, prevent disease, help and advocate patients, families within the community to cope with illness. A nurse should be able to speak, understand, and provide the appropriate care for people with diverse backgrounds. A nursing person can assess and identify the values, meanings, behaviors, and spiritual beliefs of people while considering their history, life experiences, social and physical environments. People can also find out about people’s ethnic background, religious preference, family patterns, food preferences, health practices and take this knowledge to deliver appropriate care to their diverse community. Positive health-related goals, plans, interventions, and spiritual practices can bring good outcomes. One day, I would like to be the one who works as a community health nurse and strive to provide the best possible care for my community, while continuing to learn about self and others. In order to provide appropriate Medicare and involved in medical support team, nice temper and flexibility in emergency situation are the mandatory characteristics to have to succeed in nursing profession. "If you judge people, you have no time to love them." said Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa shared the characteristics that all nurses possess. The meaning of the quote...
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...How Nursing Image Affects Your Health Abstract In common media and television series, nurses are portrayed as idiotic characters who either merely assist the physicians or are not even present. Contrary to popular belief, doctors are not the primary caretakers of patients. They are there to diagnose and offer their expertise, not bandage wounds, insert IV drips, or do most of the work as far as taking care of the immediate health of the patient. This misperception of nurses can a negative impact on the way other people view them, they view themselves, and the way they work in a professional setting. Nurses should be a respected professional who is recognized for the work they actually do, rather than the work that the media thinks their audience would expect them to do. It is a vicious cycle: the producers try to appeal to their audience who they think will be more receptive to doctors taking the lead while the audience only sees doctors in the foreground and assumes nothing different happens in reality. Constantly in today’s society, Nurses are given the title and image of the helpers whose only job is to assist the physicians in their heroic efforts to solve the complicated riddles of the human body and to save the lives of the innocent victims who find themselves in need of their expertise. Nurses, although they have the most dramatic and hands-on jobs, are not given their due credit for their efforts. In part, this is because of the media who play into the stereotype...
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...Paris, RN How Nurses are Portrayed in the Media As far back as one can go in history women have been depicted as the ones who nourish, nurture, and tend to the care of children, aging family members, and the wounded. How nurses have depicted themselves can be expressed not only by their actions, but by the uniforms they have worn over time. The image of Florence Nightingale in her uniform, carrying her lamp and caring for the wounded is an image instilled in nurses’ minds to this day. Unfortunately, this is not the image instilled in the public today. On television nurses are portrayed as sexual beings, and we are being defined as such. Nursing should promote Ms. Nightingales teachings to the public in everyday situations. The Truth About Nursing, a non-profit organization, speaks frequently on the image of nursing and on empowering nurses to change how they are perceived (Geller & Summers, 2014, p. 26). Ms. Summers is the founder and the executive director. The image of nurses is in the hands of each individual nurse. Therefore it is essential for each nurse to take a stand and vocalize his/her role in the medical profession. It is important that nurses remember the past. However, it is even more important that the legacy we leave behind is of a profession that is strong and accurate. We can do this by responding to the negative images. Television representations of nurses have historically been less than positive. Older people still have the idea...
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...certain events, races, professions, culture etc. The media is one of the most powerful forces out there, and it can put people together and pull apart as we can see in the ongoing presidential race. Nurses have had images ranging from the Angel of mercy to the sexual stereotype sometimes portrayed in works of fiction. The media portrayal on nurses has many negative impacts on the public’s image of nursing. About 70-80% of medical movies seen characterized nurses as a sexual object rather than professionals. After the media have created these images of nurses, people of the world began to keep the image in their mind and grew bias. Today, most medical dramas are physician dominated shows, offering viewers little to no truth about nursing profession. Shows like, ER, Grey’s Anatomy and House are three well-liked medical shows with a large audience. On most of the show, nurses are barely even a background noise, sometimes, they walk on and off the screen, dressed in tight fitted scrubs and holding clipboards contributing nothing to the care, meanwhile nurses are the largest group of health care professional providing direct patient care in hospital, and the quality of care is strongly linked to the performance of nursing staff but the popular media today reflects just the opposite. The invisibility of nurses on hospital dramas sends the wrong message to viewers, the public see nurses as unnecessary, uneducated and under the rule of physician, when in reality nurses are autonomous and...
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...There exist four generations types in the nursing profession. These are the Veterans (born 1925-1945), the Baby Boomers (born 1946-1964), the Gen Xers (born 1963-1980) and the Millennials (born 1980-2000). The generations possess values which differ from each other and hence this creates a set of conflicts between both the nurses and the administrators (Johnson, 2017). Managing of these multi-generation staff requires a lead nurse to have knowledge regarding each one of them. The main aim of this non-experimental research paper is to describe the characteristics of these four generations, skills that they have, challenges that they face while working as a team and resolutions that a team leader should make to guarantee a team which appreciates each other and deliver in their nursing careers (Johnson, 2017). These multi-generations provide a challenging administrative work to nursing administrators because of their differences in beliefs, expectations, and values. Additionally, communication style, comfort when using technology and altitude regarding work and family also contribute to more challenges in matters of multi-generational teamwork. Veterans in nursing practice The generation of Veterans is considered to be trustworthy, traditional and respect the authority where they work. These are nurses who were raised through authoritarian, military...
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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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...assumption Becca made was that since the patient was Chinese, the patient was non-English speaking and overweight. Lastly, she assumed, based on her previous encounters, that the patient was diabetic and poorly controlled. Assumptions can lead to stereotypes and unfair judgments about individuals. Some of Becca’s assumptions are cultural stereotypes, such as immigrants being poor and lacking insurance and the Chinese being unable to speak English. Even though Becca was well meaning, her stereotypes did not serve her or her patient. Deductive reasoning uses general information to come to a specific conclusion. This is one ingredient of critical thinking skills used by nurses to form nursing judgments and make decisions on plans of care. Becca used deductive reasoning in this situation based on her previous encounter with Chinese diabetic patients. However, Becca’s assumptions and stereotypes were incorrect and thus lead her to a false conclusion. Stereotyping affects the nurse and the patient and results in unequal treatment. Nurses who engage in stereotyping will be unable to see their patient as a unique individual because of the distortion stereotypes create. Stereotypes become barriers to appropriate, individualized nursing care, which leads to poor patient outcomes. Patients who have been stereotyped will be more distrustful of the healthcare industry. They then may withhold information, delay care, miss follow-up appointments, or be noncompliant because they do not...
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...Almost every nursing home with patients having dementia has observed these behavioral symptoms that can lead to social isolation, poor health outcomes and a decrease in physical functioning. (Cohen-Mansfield, Marx, & Rosenthal, 1989; Dyer, Pavlik, Murphy, & Hyman, 2000; Galynker, Roane, Miner, Feinberg, & Watts, 1995; Harwood, Barker, Ownby, & Ducra, 2000). Agitation is a state of anxiety and passivity is a state of not being active, which result in patients worrying without knowing why, and not being able to calm themselves. This leads to higher stress levels and eventually poor health outcomes and a decrease in QoL. The absence of suitable stimulation from the social and physical surroundings may be the reason for these two behavioral...
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