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Cartoon gets attention of nursing advocacy group

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, December 29, 2006

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The Baltimore-based Center for Nursing Advocacy isn't laughing at a recently published "Close to Home" comic. In fact, members of the group aren't even smiling.

The nationally syndicated cartoon, created by John McPherson, who lives in upstate New York, shows two EMTs loading a patient into an ambulance. One EMT tells the patient, "You've got two options, bud. Mercy Hospital is 20 minutes closer, but the nurses at Saratoga Hospital are really hot." Sandy Summers, the executive directory of the center, says that the cartoon is just another example of the sexual stereotyping that plagues the nursing profession.

The center recently found the news spotlight when it expressed strong opinions about a controversial restaurant-where waitresses wear skimpy nurse outfits-in Tempe, Ariz.

Sources: Associated Press, Glen Falls (NY) Post-Star, and gocomics.com

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