The importance of nursing within the health care system is being overlooked and is basically saying that nursing doesn’t matter. A popular image that the profession of nursing has been given for many years is that they are physicians’ servants. To speak about the topic a nurse herself, Bree LeMarie, MS, RN discusses her thoughts on the profession before she decided to enter the profession. She recalls, “At 16, the media already had me believing nursing was all about serving physicians and being a scut-work saint.” (LeMarie, 2004). LeMarie changed her mind a few years later after she discovered nurses really have independence and
The importance of nursing within the health care system is being overlooked and is basically saying that nursing doesn’t matter. A popular image that the profession of nursing has been given for many years is that they are physicians’ servants. To speak about the topic a nurse herself, Bree LeMarie, MS, RN discusses her thoughts on the profession before she decided to enter the profession. She recalls, “At 16, the media already had me believing nursing was all about serving physicians and being a scut-work saint.” (LeMarie, 2004). LeMarie changed her mind a few years later after she discovered nurses really have independence and