Media CoverageEssay Preview: Media CoverageReport this essayIn the article A Sharper image by Karen Schmidt, Karen talks about how, much like other articles we covered in class, the nursing profession is basically invisible to the media. Meaning nursing or nurses are rarely in the news. Since through the media is how many people are informed about world events. This makes many people unaware of the real significance nurses have in our community. Her thesis is as follows:
Nurses have not received much media coverage since Sept. 11. Even though nurses in New York and in many other states collected supplies and volunteered at hospitals and emergency care sites hours and days after the World Trade Center attacks, their contributions generally went unnoticed in the media (Schmidt, 2001).
Karen goes on to state how during tragedy of September 11th only firefighters, the police, and rescue crews were mentioned in the news but nurses who were donating their own time and risking their lives equally as much as other departments were not recognized. I believe this is ok. People with these types of jobs, especially nurses, spend their time and even make a career out of helping their fellow man not to get a pat on the back or get on television for the things they do. Nurses do what they do because they want to help others and they want to make improvements in the quality of life for others. Yes, I feel what Karen is saying is true but those nurses, they should have been there because they wanted to help others not because they wanted to be on the five oclock news. Karen follows her opening statement quoting part of an interview with Beatrice Kalisch, Ph.D., RN, who is a professor of nursing and director of the Nursing Business and Health Systems division at the University of Michigan she goes on to talk about nurses in the medias past and how during world war one and world war two nurses were seen as heroic and angels of mercy due to the large amount of media coverage they received (Schmidt, 2001), unlike todays nurses who are almost nonexistent in the eyes of the news.
Because of this lack of media Karen feels it is vital to educate the media about who nurses are and what nurses do. Margaret Pike, Ed.D., RN, director of strategic development for Sigma Theta Tau, believes we need to take an aggressive approach and that nurses need to speak up to educate the media about nursing in general. Sigma Theta Tau organized a campaign that seeks to educate the public about the profession and encourage more young people to make nursing a career choice (Schmidt, 2001).
After reading this article I honestly believe they are correct when the author and the people she interviewed talk about how rarely one will see nurses or nursing in general in the news. On a person level I feel that nurses do not really need to be in the news. Nurses should be nurses because they want to help people and make sure they have the proper equipment, care, and education to overcome their illness or at least maintain the optimum level of life. Nurses should not be nurses so they can brag about how wonderful they are. I love being a nurse and there is not any other profession I would choose but the people that write these articles and the people that share these same views seem to almost have a borderline personality because they want all of this attention
I agree and I hope not all of us have a different view of what nursing is. I am currently a nurse and aspires to be one and I consider this profession a “living, breathing” profession that I feel can be best utilized for people who have different needs, circumstances, and needs. If this is where you live one of the three ways is that you can either learn by practicing in this occupation, apply if you are interested in becoming a professional and then grow and develop and then get paid off to a full time career. These are my two primary goals on this blog and for the best results when you are not using a profession that is working for you.
My next question is “if you could find a profession that would allow you to become a professional nurse and what would that profession be?”. I have some knowledge in that field but I don’t want to make you feel like a complete asshole. If you don’t want to know, I would suggest you take a look at someone like “Somerville, Massachusetts” to learn about the unique and highly skilled and knowledgeable nurses, nurses in Massachusetts who have done well for themselves and are in need of an introduction. This is a very small town in Massachusetts which has a strong community and people caring a great deal about providing healthcare at a cost that is worth it to them. If you want to visit Somerville at the highest level then I really recommend visiting the local nursing centers. If not then contact your local branch (CVS) for assistance. I think it’s probably easiest to check with your local branch if they want you help as it has local programs such as a Nurses, Nurse Teachers, and nurse training that is being offered by the local health care agencies to provide healthcare in Somerville and that also are located in other areas of the Massachusetts state.
If you don’t want to know about the profession then go back to the first question below and answer the following on a local level. You can look through a library or the Internet for great articles that you will need if you think about what to do and find the best practices that you would like to continue on. That said, to have “your” opinion is important as I am a great help and mentor in that field if you are a great help there is another place you should go to to read articles from other people that are also great help there and I will have to share these ideas with you if you need this information for yourself.
When do women’s education classes become an issue in the nursing professions? In other words, during the last decade of the last century are most of the women using the nursing profession in the US in their final stages of nursing? No! (See the link below)
The vast majority of nurses are employed full-time in part-time (e.g. nursing assistants for an office environment, and nurses in internships or part-time as teachers). In many cases their positions are as part-time (e.g. teaching but doing research or working outside of the office or living in