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The triumphant return of man candy Saturday

The view is going down/nurses are sick and tired of the lack of respect

More advertisers are jumping ship from the view. Sweet. I hope they cancel this idiot fest.

I hope all of this makes nurses realize how much power we have.  There are over 3 million of us in this country.  Our numbers give us power.  We need to use it. The problem with our profession is we are too nice. We let people shit all over us, from the patients to the doctors to the management.

I am going to take a giant leap out there and say we are the most important people in the health care system.  Wow, you mean more important than doctors??  Yup. We are the people that actually CARE for the patients. We are there 24/7.  Without us, patients don' t get better, they develop complications, they die.

The reaction of nurses to the view comments reflects the exhaustion of nurses across this country. Our jobs become more and more complex an stressful. We work our butts off daily, with little recognition. We are EXHAUSTED. We are FED UP. Then somebody has the audacity to dismiss us as a profession on national TV.  Uh no...I don't think so.....

Thank you Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson, a well known supporter of nurses and nursing for a long time, has pulled it's advertising from the view after disparaging remarks toward nurses about a week ago.  For that, we thank them.

Johnson and Johnson has had commercials on TV for some time promoting nursing as  an effort to recruit more nurses into the profession. They call it " the campaign  for nursing's future". The whole "you're a nurse, you make a difference" cornball song.  Even though that commercial was lame, the thought is appreciated.

They have had some really good views of nurses on their commercials, including one about ER Nurses that I have included.

This whole debacle is an example of how little the public knows about our job .