Informal health care consultants to friends and family.
Informal health care consultants to friends and family.
· The media continues to encourage and reveal long-held unfavorable preconceptions of nurses. What is unknown is how today’s unfavorable nurse stereotype in the media affects the nursing image. Negative media portrayals of nurses influence society’s attitudes of the nursing profession in the form of negative public perception of the profession, limited funding for education and research, inadequate multidisciplinary team effort and communication, and stunted nursing self-concept. Nursing has been ranked the most trusted profession for the last 15 years, according to Gallup Poll: Nursing Most Trusted Profession (2016). Nonetheless, unfavorable representations of nurses as “handmaidens,” “sex objects,” “romantic darlings,” or “self-sacrificial angels” continue in many cases and have warped the image of nursing (Graveto, Cardoso, & Silva, 2015).
· A nurse’s mission is to promote and sustain the quality of life as well as save lives. Some nurses volunteer by using their medical knowledge to promote community health. (Fishman, 2017) Others conduct health screenings at community events, offer diet and fitness advice, and educate the public about the significance of handwashing and vaccines. (Fishman, 2017) As involved community members, nurses all across the world help to enhance community health. They visit elderly neighbors, serve on local boards and commissions, and coordinate fundraising initiatives for medical causes. This is, of course, in addition to their usual employment commitments and their duty as informal health care consultants to friends and family. (Fishman, 2017)
