Portrayal of Nurses in Advertisements in Medical and Nursing Journals
- 1 December 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship
- Vol. 24 (4) , 289-294
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1547-5069.1992.tb00735.x
Abstract
This investigation examined the content of advertisements in medical and nursing journals to determine if the images of nurses reflect the roles nurses play in health care. The method used was content analysis. Thirty-five nursing journals and 48 medical journals yielded 313 different advertisements picturing nurses. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, chi-square, correlation coefficients, and interpreted for overall impressions of the portrayals. Nurses are portrayed as sex objects, ornaments and as handmaidens to physicians. The findings demonstrate a freezing of the image of nurses in the print media.Keywords
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