Summary: The Effects Of Fictional Nurses On Nursing

The Effects of Fictional Nurses on Patient Care The significance of nursing on a patient’s care is exclusively important, although, the media continues to present this importance as otherwise. The western media characterizes nurses in ways that repeatedly emphasize on stereotypical traits, and people tend to absorb these traits as if they are concrete. Consequently, the society rationalizes these stereotypical characteristics, which frames the popular culture and spreads amongst the population. Nurses are responsible for observing and advising patients on their own health, and support the patient’s family as well; however, the media portrays some to none of the above. As a result, we see patients denying and downgrading their nurses, because the media has caused the popular culture to believe that the nursing profession is an insignificant, feminine,

3) occupation. My case for this statement builds from the fictional nurses the media portrays, which drastically affects the nurse’s relationship with their patients, as well as it degrades the status of the nursing profession. Geller (2014) believes that the media portrays nurses poorly, because the society fails to understand the concept of the nursing profession (p. 1). The media seems to continuously focus on physicians and their duties, in relation to nurses being the eyes and ears of physicians. The media is a subconscious educator, which means viewers will involuntarily learn and mimic what the media portrays. Hence, if the media continues to described the nursing profession as an irrelevant and illiterate occupation, then patients will fail to build a strong relationship with their nurses. The lack of appreciation given to nurses will affect the