Question

After reading chapter 5, describe and discuss one thing you found interesting either in a) the social context of professional nursing or b) discuss one way nursing is portrayed in the media and how that positively or negatively influences public’s opinion.

Masters, K. (2017). Role development in professional nursing practice (4th ed). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett.

Answer 1

1. Nursing is one of the profession in health care which deals with providing care to the patient , family and community.

In the media , nurses are portrayed in both the ways good as well as bad . The way they portray the nurses- is what perceived by the public . If they show that the nurses are just the persons in the hospital who do the basic needs of the patient ( providing bed bath ,mouth care etc ) then the public percieve it as nurses are those who work as a helper or nursing aaya / aid .This occurred due to the incomplete presentation of the duties and responsibilities of a nurse by the media to the public .

When the media shows that a nurse is caring a patient in a intensive health care unit dealing with cardiac monitors , defibrillator ,infusion pumps etc ,public perceive that the nurses are medical professionals ,they are the core element of a hospital who spends most of the time with patients than any other health care professional, and provides care to the patient ,family and the community . So, it depends on the way how they portray the nurses to the public .