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Discussion Post: Issues & Trends in Nursing
The media portray many images of nursing, some favorable and some unfavorable.
1) Does media portrayal of nursing affect how patients perceive nurses as authority figures? Why or why not? Think about nursing stereotypes and discuss the ways you can influence the public image of nursing.
2) Discuss the various roles nurses can play that support the real image of nursing. Think about community health care and preventive services for all, but especially the underserved.
a) Clearly respond to both parts of the question using subtitles or bullets.
b) Since this is a course about issues and trends in nursing, we want to learn how to identify what those issues are. If you try to google sources for the discussion posts, you will not always find the correct answers.
Hint: The textbook and online presentations as well as the resources provided each week will assist you in answering the discussion prompts. It is advisable to use control F (or command F on Mac) to search for key terms if using the electronic textbook or the index for a hard copy textbook.
Make sure to answer the prompt thoroughly, providing details and specifics. In order to do this, it will help you if you label each part of the prompt with a heading/question separately if applicable.
Textbook: Professional Issues in Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities by Carol J. Huston.: 6th Edition. Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health.
Textbook: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association by American Psychological Association.
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