Positive Nursing Image
I believe that nursing has a generally positive image in the public eye. The video covering trustworthy professions had nursing at the top, this tells me that the public views nurses in the correct manner. However, I think with the wide variety of television shows depicting healthcare workers is misleading. Always focusing on doctors the public does not understand all of the responsibilities nurses have in healthcare. At times I think the public views nurses as someone entirely directed by a doctor with no autonomy at all, when as we all know that is not true. The television shows often portray nurses as stubborn or obstinate to the doctor's orders, with scenes of the nurse acting putout to perform the ordered task. There are good representations, I have noticed that movies often have the nurse as a busy hero, with the first in and last out mentality.
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Inside the nursing profession I think there are a few varieties of nurses, those who care too much and those who care too little and then those who fall somewhere in between. I think the internal view nurses have of each other is again positive; but nursing burnout is viewed almost as normal when I think it is a combination of feeling unsatisfied in work which managers should see and address, and feeling
Inside the nursing profession I think there are a few varieties of nurses, those who care too much and those who care too little and then those who fall somewhere in between. I think the internal view nurses have of each other is again positive; but nursing burnout is viewed almost as normal when I think it is a combination of feeling unsatisfied in work which managers should see and address, and feeling