NSE 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canadian Nurses Association, History Of Nursing, Registered Nurse
Document Summary
What shapes our image: media, public perceptions, history, and nursing perceptions. Registered nurse ranked 8th for most stable career choice (monster. ca) Shared responsibility to integrate nursing history into nursing education & professional awareness. Better understanding of the challenges of the past & future opportunities. Florence nightingale as epitome of an angel (crimean wars) Edith cavell: helped allied soldiers, executed for treason. Reliable working woman whose career lasted until she wed. Images tied w/ war, military service, & sacrifice. Positive image intensified by television: wwii: nurse status equivalent to officer. After war, return to family values of home & hearth. Remained high status profession although women were urged to stay home"". Sensual, romantic, irresponsible, promiscuous: w/ little evidence or intelligence or skill, m*a*s*h- ads & tv contributed. Are you man enough to be a nurse: was viewed unmanly . Nurses being portrayed as heroes, harlots, harridans and handmaidens.
