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Media Coverage

In the article A Sharper image by Karen Schmidt, Karen talks about how, much like other articles we covered in class, the nursing profession is basically invisible to the media. Meaning nursing or nurses are rarely in the news. Since through the media is how many people are informed about world events. This makes many people unaware of the real significance nurses have in our community. Her thesis is as follows:
Nurses have not received much media coverage since Sept. 11. Even though nurses in New York and in many other states collected supplies and volunteered at hospitals and emergency care sites hours and days after the World Trade Center attacks, their contributions generally went unnoticed in the media (Schmidt, 2001).
Karen goes on to state how during tragedy of September 11th only firefighters, the police, and rescue crews were mentioned in the news but nurses who were donating their own time and risking their lives equally as much as other departments were not recognized.......


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