1. Allison Mentink, Christine Ostendorf, Jessica Gums University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire

2. Image of Nursing Nursing in the media 1930-1980 Nursing in the media 1980-present The future of Nursing in the media What is our role? Conclusion

4. Nursing 1980’s – present We have all heard stories regarding nurses: killer nurses, incompetent nurses, poorly trained nurses and of course the entertainment media have their “naughty nurses” Negative/derogatory portrayal of nursing in the media has become more prevalent over the past 50 years. This has heightened with more negative images in the past 20 years. The medias portrayal of nurses is one of the most difficult to compete with

5. WHAT REAL NURSE DOWHAT TV NURSES DO EducateAnswer Phones Patient AdvocateFollow Doctor Orders TriageHave Affairs with Doctors Monitor PatientsAssist Doctors Provide Emotional SupportWatch Doctors Save Lives Perform Procedures Save Lives

6. Angels of Mercy until end of WWII 1920’s to end of WWII – pragmatic, even heroic A Farewell to Arms (1932)

7. 1930’s-1940’s – Dr. Kildare films introduced nurses as love interests 1940’s-1960’s – series of juvenile novels about Cherry Ames Adventurous, bright, young nurse crime solver 1950’s-1960’s – AMA asserted control over network television Heroic physician characters virtuous, no mistakes

8. 1962-1965: The Nurses series 1960’s brought the naughty nurse, balanced by the senior battle-ax Quality of nursing portrayal decreased in both film and prime time television One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

9. 1960’s and 1970’s: increase in portrayal of explicit sexual activity Catch 22 (1970) M.A.S.H. (1972) Kalischs of University of Michigan Nursing School published multiple studies in the 1980’s

10. Nurses were shown as peripheral assistants to dominant physicians St. Elsewhere 1982-88 showed occasional formidable nurse character China Beach 1988-91 lead character colleen McMurphy was competent, tough army nurse but did not generally display much skill

11. TV sitcom Nurses 1991-94 treated nurses with some respect Nightingales 1988-89 featured sexy nursing students who spent so much time partially undressed that outraged nurses actually managed to chase the show off the air ER 1994 One of the most influential health care shows in history. Fairly realistic scenes, some of the best depictions of nursing ever to appear on network TV, occasionally showed serious nursing skill and autonomy, but as a whole depicted nurses as the handmaiden, as a skilled physician assistant who must defer to him.

12. 2000-2006 Strong Medicine on Lifetime had a handsome, articulate nurse midwife Peter Riggs, but other nurses were mute handmaidens 2001-Present Scrubs, present main nurse Carla Espinosa at times shows real skill, but also shows doctors starting iv’s and hanging medications and providing virtually all care House stated nurses were invented to pick patients up when they fall and to get him coffee Private Practice only has one nurse/receptionist character-male midwife student

16. “Most people know they can’t get into a hospital without a doctor. What they don’t know is that they won’t get out of one – at least not alive – without a nurse.” - Nursing Historian Joan Lynaugh