“Our message to the millions of nurses and nursing students in the U.S. and the millions more people

These are not the kinds of images commonly associated with the nursing profession. But they are everyday scenes in " Scrubbing In ," a new reality show on MTV about a group of young travel nurses in California.
The show has incensed nursing groups, which have long called for more positive portrayals of nurses on television. The program, "Scrubbing In," goes far in the other direction, they say, arguing that it trivializes the works nurses do and reinforces negative stereotypes about them.
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Negative portrayals of nurses, she said, undermine efforts to recruit new nurses and may exacerbate a shortage of nurses. More importantly, they erode the trust patients place in nurses. "This show is neither 'reality' nor entertainment," Daley wrote. "It's harmful and irresponsible."
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