Trust Me, I’m A Nurse

Paper halo? I didn’t know that they use to make nurses caps out of paper. My cap was made out of starched cloth. We used Lubri-fax to glue the black stripe to the top rim of our caps. Really! I would never lie to you. You can trust me because I’m a nurse.

My blog buddy, Brad Levinson, from Health Care United sent me some great information about a new Gallup poll. Guess what, people. For the 7th year in a row, and for the 9th out of 10 years, nurses are ranked number one on their annual “Honesty and Ethics” survey. That’s right people, nurses are number one! The poll says that 84% percent of Americans rank nurses’ “honesty and ethical standards either ‘high’ or ‘very high.” The one year that nurses didn’t make the top was in 2001, when fire fighters were ranked #1 (a very well-deserved honor that year). Pharmacists are #2 and doctors are #4.

People trust nurses for a lot of different reasons. Nurses are patient advocates. We always put our patients and their family members first. We are there for you during your darkest days, and your brightest seasons. We see life and death, pain and joy, hope and sorrow. Nurses don’t question your social status. We only want to know about your needs. We may not all have a halo, but we come pretty darn close.

Nurses rock!