Theresa Brown, an oncology nurse and regular contributor to The New York Times Well column, wrote this week about a new book, "Saving Lives: Why the Media’s Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk.” The book and Brown's column explore the stereotypes surrounding nurses and the problems that those stereotypes can create. The stereotypes come from everything from media depictions of nurses to lack of understanding about the range and depth of nurse education. Such stereotypes can impede effective communication between patients, nurses and other medical staff, and as such can impede clinical care.
Many patients never learn the complex and diverse roles that nurses play until they find themselves in a hospital bed. Better educating the public about the many different roles in medicine will create a better clinical environment for everyone and will take some of the mystery, and fear, out of the medical experience.
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