The Nurse In The Horror Movie Analysis

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The big part of human perception about profession nowadays derives from the mass media. The nursing profession is not an exception. The nurses often appear in the movies, publicity, TV shows, novels, and even music videos. The image of nurse varies from sexualized stereotype of young and poorly dressed female to the drug addicted person who has the difficulties to cope with her or his duties, but those images rarely include the nurse as a serious, dedicated professional with strong work ethics. In particular, the horror movie genre is discrediting the nursing profession by attributing to the nurses such traits as cruelty, carelessness, falseness and so on. Further in this paper I will compare the attitude and actions of the nurses from one of the scenes from the movie “Gothika” with the scholarly articles …show more content…

I think the campaign with posters, videos and flyers where the nurses are interacting with the homeless people, drug addicts, prisoners, and other stigmatized groups would be effective tool to show that the nurses don’t judge, they just help anyone regardless their actions, status or appearance. According to the Canadian Nurses Association’s Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses (2008, p. 21), the nurses must not avoid any kind of discrimination towards their patients, but also “Nurses refrain from judging, labelling, demeaning, stigmatizing and humiliating behaviours toward persons receiving care, other health-care professionals and each other”, but unfortunately, the majority of the population is not aware about the those required ethical standards for the nurses. Raising the patients’ awareness about the nursing ethical norms can decrease their fear and shame to talk about their problems to

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