Media Portrayals of Nursing
This modern platform now shapes public beliefs about nursing more than textbooks or classrooms ever did.
What is social media?
This online trend shows nursing as cute, aesthetic, and effortless.
What is the nurse influencer look?
This age group struggles because they trust online content too easily.
Who are young people
In NURS 110, this is defined as the values, knowledge, and behaviours that shape who you are as a nurse.
What is professional identity?
Showing the real side of nursing helps fix online stereotypes.
What is showing reality?
This historical stereotype reduced nurses to “helpers,” which still influences today’s media portrayals.
What is the gendered assistant-to-doctors stereotype?
When social media sets the standard for what a “good nurse” looks like, this core part of identity formation gets distorted.
What is self-image?
This age group struggles with misinformation because of lower digital literacy.
Who are older adults?
A nurse shows their identity by speaking up for patients.
What is advocating
Posting online must always respect this legal rule about patient info.
What is confidentiality?
When nursing is shown as simple or “easy,” this key part of the profession becomes invisible.
What is clinical judgment?
Influencer content often hides this exhausting reality of nursing.
What is burnout?
When influencers share confident but incorrect health advice, this psychological bias makes people believe it.
What is the confidence bias?
New grads often struggle when their expectations of nursing don’t match reality. This clash is called what?
What is reality shock?
When posting online, nurses must never share this.
What is patient information?
Name the type of societal belief that continues to shape how nurses are shown on TV, even decades after it started.
What are gender norms?
Influencer posts hide this major part of nursing: the actual hard clinical thinking.
What is clinical complexity?
what is it called when people often believe misinformation because it’s repeated so many times online.
What is the echo effect?
Taking responsibility when something goes wrong is part of this.
What is accountability?
This helps nurses avoid crossing lines online.
What are boundaries?
studies argue that misrepresentation affects this long-term outcome that impacts healthcare systems. what is this called
What is recruitment into the profession?
This psychological experience hits new grads who think they should match influencer-level perfection.
What is imposter syndrome?
Nurses need to model this online to counter misinformation.
What is evidence-based behaviour or professional online conduct?
This is the biggest external factor that now shapes professional identity — even though it didn’t exist for previous generations.
What is social media
Posting about real skills shows the true work nurses do.
What is nursing skill