Cartoon pokes fun at image of nursing
HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, December 26, 2006
The image of nurses at Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs, NY-an ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®-designated facility since 2004-was recently the subject of a cartoon printed in about 700 publications that featured a comment about the hospital's nurses. The "Close to Home" comic, by John McPherson, a Saratoga Springs resident, featured an EMT loading a patient into an ambulance, with the EMT saying to the patient: "You've got two options, bud. Mercy Hospital is 20 minutes closer, but the nurses at Saratoga Hospital are really hot." The Center for Nursing Advocacy, a Baltimore-based group that works to fight stereotypes and portrayals of nurses as sex objects, was critical of the cartoon. However, Ellen Kerness, manager of marketing and communications at Saratoga Hospital, says, "It wasn't meant to be derogatory . . . and I think most of our nurses took it for what it was: a cartoon."
Source: PostStar.com
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