Top YouTube ‘nursing’ videos slammed for demeaning nurses

Irish researchers have called for legislative changes to protect the reputation of the nursing profession following recent studies that show YouTube's most popular depictions of nurses are "negative" and "demeaning". The top-10 videos, rated by popularity and related to the keywords "nurses" and "nursing", include a Belgian lingerie television commercial, a Virgin Mobile TV commercial and an excerpt from the US smash-hit comedy series Frasier. Others in the list included a package from an internet TV news show, and sitcom and cartoon excerpts that showed nurses as either incompetent or...