Tips from TSE: New drama features nurses as main characters
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, August 7, 2009
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Nurses have an obligation to be aware of media representation of the profession and to take action to make their voices heard when such representation is wrong. Educators have a particular responsibility to be aware of such representation because they often serve as role models for nurses new to the profession and discuss the importance of nursing's image as part of continuing education and professional development.
Until a few weeks ago, television healthcare dramas featured only physicians as main characters, and nurses were seen only in passing, often as mindless servants, existing only to perform the most menial of tasks at the command of doctors. Recently, however, television networks announced several new shows featuring nurses as the main protagonists.
On June 16, TNT broadcast the premier episode of HawthoRNe, a hospital drama that makes an earnest effort to focus on the perspective of nurses and, to some extent, the realities of nursing practice.
Editor's note: This excerpt was adapted from the August issue of The Staff Educator. Discover all the benefits of subscribing to The Staff Educator!
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