It's time for a change

[shadow73]

I used to enjoy hospital and medical dramas, then I became a nurse.  I never really thought about why.  I just knew that I didn't like them anymore.  It seems that I'm not the only nurse dissatisfied with Hollywood.

I stole this from sistrmoon .

Comments

[ruby7829]

Wow! Well said.

[sistrmoon]

Someone pointed out in the comments on my journal that male nurses aren't even mentioned, and all pronouns used are feminine, which is a bit ironic for an article about stereotypes!

[cheez_ball]

The stereotypes for men who are nurses are pretty bad, imho, and are distinct from those for female nurses. The ONLY descent depiction in media that I've seen was Rick Schroder's character in Scrubs.

I take issue even with the term "male nurse" because it's usually used just like that: "male nurse." As if it's incorrect to use the phrase "he's a nurse" and he's a different species than female nurses, aka "nurses." It should be noted I also take issue with the phrase "where you at" because it grates on my nerves, exactly the same way the phrase "male nurse" does. So perhaps this is an anal retentive English thing for me.

[elaina]

When I taught math at a community college which had a nursing program, I taught a lot of nurses. And most of the ones who had me were terrible at math. They were primarily older women who totally did not see the point in learning math (on average, younger female and male nursing students did better in their math classes): "Why do we need to learn math?" "Because nurses need to be able to do math to do their jobs."