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Promote perioperative nursing by engaging with the media

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P E R IO P B R IE F IN G D espite being voted by Americans as the top trusted profession for the last 16 years,1 nurses are primarily… Click to show full abstract

P E R IO P B R IE F IN G D espite being voted by Americans as the top trusted profession for the last 16 years,1 nurses are primarily excluded from media coverage.2 In 1997, the Woodhull Study on Nursing and the Media, which evaluated the representation of nurses in media coverage of health care–related topics, identified that only 4 percent of quotes in newspapers and 1 percent of quotes in weekly and industry publications came from nurses. Furthermore, nurses were only referred to in 14 percent of articles, and photos of nurses were rarely published.2

Keywords: perioperative nursing; promote perioperative; engaging media; percent; nursing engaging

Journal Title: AORN Journal
Year Published: 2018

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