Essay On Nursing Image

The nursing image is one of the most challenging issues confronting nurses, ranging from the sexual stereotypes to the angel of mercy. The general impression of the public describes nurses as doctor’s handmaidens, feminine profession, and naughty nurse. All those perceptions were mentioned in social media and T.V shows and those methods were the key role in portraying the misconception of nursing (Weaver, Salamonson, Koch, & Jackson, 2013) . It is well-known that the public image sometimes is based on inaccurate overall understanding and does not match the nurses’ professional image. Nurses’ performance in hospitals is affected negatively because the people impression does not fulfill nurses’ satisfaction. Therefore, in this paper, I will discuss few things; first, I will provide detailed description of a picture I got from the instagram that view nursing negatively. Secondly, how I find this picture and what it means to me. Thirdly, how that picture affects me and how I will refute the image in daily nursing practice and in the future as a practicing

In the search bar I wrote nursing and the picture which I chose came first. Unfortunately, the picture presented nurses and nursing negatively. It consisted from two main reflective components text and image of a cartoon nurse. The background was black the text was in the right side and the cartoon nurse was in the left. The text was “heaRD uR Feelin’ UNDeR the weatHeR, THouGHt I’D seND a NuRse to Help U Feel BETTER!!!”, when I first read the text it seemed positive and representative about what we as nurses usually do which is helping others. The integration of the text and the image was sexually presented. Half of the sentence colored by green the second half was colored by red. The language used on the picture attempted to sexually arouse the person who receives the picture. The text was written in big font size and the second half of the text was