Stupid medical student denigrating nurses

Okay, although I just put up the piece regarding nurses being overly sensitive about being portrayed as sex objects, I agree with the post at the Nurse Practitioner’s Place. I cannot believe that these medical students even thought this would be appropriate.

Stupid medical student denigrating nurses:

July 8, 2005 — The Edmonton Journal published a fair piece by Jodie Sinnema on May 19 about the recent controversy surrounding the lyrics of a ‘Nurses’ Song’ performed by University of Alberta medical students at their annual ‘Medshow.’ It seems that nursing professors, the university provost, and even the medical school dean found something objectionable about the song’s assertions that nurses were ‘whores’ and ‘bitches’ whose ‘incompetence’ threatened to ‘make our patients die.’ But at least the medical students felt nurses were qualified to ‘fill up my coffeepot’ and ‘give good head,’ and the refrain urged nurses to ‘show me those boobs.’ The song seems to reflect virulent misogyny, ignorance of nursing, and professional insecurity, a perfect storm of dysfunction that persists in many clinical settings, harming patients and contributing to nursing burnout and the global nursing shortage. For more click link:

(Via The Nurse Practitioner’s Place.)

  1. Thanks for the trackback! Glad to see that you agree with me on this issue. Hell, I can take a joke and I’m not a particularly sensitive person but this was just plain unprofessionalism on their part. Just when we get a little closer to being on good terms, someone has to go and screw it up again!

  2. Thanks for the trackback! Glad to see that you agree with me on this issue. Hell, I can take a joke and I’m not a particularly sensitive person but this was just plain unprofessionalism on their part. Just when we get a little closer to being on good terms, someone has to go and screw it up again!

  3. Thanks for the interest in my post! Check out some of the replys. Pretty interesting! I’m not an overly sensitive person by any means, but sometimes it just goes too far..

  4. Thanks for the interest in my post! Check out some of the replys. Pretty interesting! I’m not an overly sensitive person by any means, but sometimes it just goes too far..

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