Deactivated Juliett Fernandez  1 posts Re:Topic 3 DQ 1      LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking system service.  The purpose of this social media service is to build your professional identity, stay in contact with past classmates and colleagues, discover professional opportunities, business deals, and new ventures (LinkedIn, 2016).  In addition, you can get the latest news, inspiration, and insights on your personal career.  In the last few years, this social media avenue has become familiar for employees and employers to connect with others.  In addition, it has been used to relay messages about careers, personal information, highlights, negatives, and important news of people or groups, such as nurses. In saying that, LinkedIn has the power of helping or hurting your reputation as a nurse.  People in groups can comment and discuss your performance and if it is negative, such as being put on suspension for coming to work under the influence, your future will be in jeopardy, due to exposure of this information.      The media can negatively influence the public’s perspective of nursing by what is exposes. For example, many people have heard of the show Grey’s Anatomy.  On this show, there is a cast of good looking nurses and doctors, that have romantic relationships with one another, and even perform sexual acts in the hospital setting.  It is full of drama and non-realistic expectations and scenarios nurses face.  So, when many people around the world gather to watch this show, they assume that this drama is what nursing entails.  On the contrary, there are guidelines to dating and especially, performing sexual acts on the job at the job location.  Another example, would be how nurses are still viewed as sexy icons.  During Halloween, there are multiple sexy costumes of nurses that portray nursing idealizations of the past.  Nursing has come so far, yet, there are some who will visualize the ‘sexiness’ of nursing due to the images they have been exposed to.  A last example, of how media can affect nursing reputation poorly, is the news media.  People all over the world turn on the television to stay informed on what is happening around the world.  Recently, there has been the subject if the Zika Virus.  Many news stations and radio stations have discussed the disease, ways to minimize acquiring the virus and so on.  I listened to a radio station that was talking about mothers moving away from Miami, in fear of becoming pregnant or being pregnant and giving birth to a child with defects, due to the disease.  All the show did was scare me and make me want to flee Miami!  At the end of the day media affects society and their perspectives.      Other than social media, there are medical and nursing journals that educate people on nursing, such as the American Nursing Journal.  In addition, there are newspapers and newsletters, that can be found in the community or hospitals to highlight achievements or stories that have positive.

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Juliett Fernandez
1 posts
Re:Topic 3 DQ 1
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking system
service. The purpose of this social media service is to build
your professional identity, stay in contact with past classmates
and colleagues, discover professional opportunities, business
deals, and new ventures (LinkedIn, 2016). In addition, you can
get the latest news, inspiration, and insights on your personal
career. In the last few years, this social media avenue has
become familiar for employees and employers to connect with
others. In addition, it has been used to relay messages about
careers, personal information, highlights, negatives, and
important news of people or groups, such as nurses. In saying
that, LinkedIn has the power of helping or hurting your
reputation as a nurse. People in groups can comment and
discuss your performance and if it is negative, such as being put
on suspension for coming to work under the influence, your
future will be in jeopardy, due to exposure of this information.
The media can negatively influence the public’s perspective
of nursing by what is exposes. For example, many people have
heard of the show Grey’s Anatomy. On this show, there is a
cast of good looking nurses and doctors, that have romantic
relationships with one another, and even perform sexual acts in
the hospital setting. It is full of drama and non-realistic
expectations and scenarios nurses face. So, when many people
around the world gather to watch this show, they assume that
this drama is what nursing entails. On the contrary, there are
guidelines to dating and especially, performing sexual acts on
the job at the job location. Another example, would be how
nurses are still viewed as sexy icons. During Halloween, there
are multiple sexy costumes of nurses that portray nursing
idealizations of the past. Nursing has come so far, yet, there

2. are some who will visualize the ‘sexiness’ of nursing due to the
images they have been exposed to. A last example, of how
media can affect nursing reputation poorly, is the news media.
People all over the world turn on the television to stay informed
on what is happening around the world. Recently, there has
been the subject if the Zika Virus. Many news stations and
radio stations have discussed the disease, ways to minimize
acquiring the virus and so on. I listened to a radio station that
was talking about mothers moving away from Miami, in fear of
becoming pregnant or being pregnant and giving birth to a child
with defects, due to the disease. All the show did was scare me
and make me want to flee Miami! At the end of the day media
affects society and their perspectives.
Other than social media, there are medical and nursing
journals that educate people on nursing, such as the American
Nursing Journal. In addition, there are newspapers and
newsletters, that can be found in the community or hospitals to
highlight achievements or stories that have positively impacted
our society. As nurses, we can join clubs and committees that
influence those we serve. Joining and speaking to city mayors
and senators are good ways of representing the
nursing community and being heard. Other than that, the
internet is the largest place of all, to get the most recent
updated information. As nurses, we just need to make sure we
tell our patients how to check for validity of these sites and
which ones to go to.
References
LinkedIn. (2016). What is LinkedIn? | LinkedIn. Retrieved from
https://www.linkedin.com/static?key=what_is_linkedin
ONS Connect. (2016). How Can We Improve the Way the Media
Portrays the Nursing Profession? | ons connect. Retrieved from
http://connect.ons.org/issue/december-2012/a-closer-look/how-
can-we-improve-the-way-the-media-portrays-the-nursiNG

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Patricia Aparicio
4 posts
Re:Topic 3 DQ 1
Call the Midwife is a television show that strongly demonstrates
a nurse’s autonomy and critical thinking. It portrays a positive
image of midwife nurses by, not only demonstrate their skills
but, showing the public they were able to have a holistic
approach and integrating the families in their plan. The
midwives were able to provide high quality of care under poor
circumstances and be an advocate for their patients. (Changing
How the World Thinks About Nursing, 2011). The Gray’s
Anatomy television show has a very negative portrayal of a
nurses’ image. It shows the nurse as servants and performing
basic tasks. Another false aspect of the show are surgeons doing
all the critical interventions, patient advocacy, and patient
education. These are skills performed by nurses on a daily
basis. Gray’s Anatomy negatively represents the image and
degrades the role of nurses (Changing How the World Thinks
About Nursing, 2011).
We can better educate the general public of the role and scope
of nursing by better communicating advances in lifesaving
technologies and introducing the profession to younger
students. A recent lifesaving technology includes scanning a
patient’s medication to prevent errors (Changing Views:
Influencing How the Public Sees Nursing, n.d.). We can also
work in partnership in our communities, like schools and senior
centers, to promote the role of nurses in preventing of
infectious diseases, the importance of hand washing, and
demonstrating health related data. Clinical ladder is the perfect
example that shows our patients the capacity to practice nursing
at an advanced level (Friberg & Creasia, 2015).
We can educate the general public on the changing healthcare
system by being community advocates and leaders to assist with
this hard to understand topic. Nurses are a key element to

4. changing the healthcare system (Changing How the World
Thinks About Nursing, 2011). Therefore, nurses should be more
involved with educating their patients, family members, and
visitors. The passing of the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) is an example where nurses had to
routinely explain what information could and could not be
shared. Often times, explaining the HIPAA law put nurses in an
uncomfortable situation with family and friends of the patient.
References
Changing How the World Thinks About Nursing. (2011). The
Truth About Nursing. Retrieved October 25, 2016 from
http://www.truthaboutnursing.org/media/tv/house.html
Changing Views: Influencing How the Public Sees Nursing.
(n.d.). CE4Nurses Ohio Nurses Association. Retrieved October
25, 2016 from https://ce4nurses.org/changing-views-
influencing-how-the-public-sees-nursing/
Friberg, E. E., & Creasia, J. L. (2015). Conceptual Foundations:
The Bridge of Professional Nursing Practice. Missouri:
Elsevier. Retrieved October 25, 2016 from the Vital Source
database.