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Press Release, 12/18/14 from National Nurses United www.nationalnursesunited.org/
In what has become a holiday tradition, registered nurses are once again viewed as the most trusted profession in the U.S., according to an annual Gallup survey conducted December 8-11.
RNs are viewed as having “very high” or “high” ethical and honesty standards by 80 percent of the public, a full 15 points higher than any other profession in the Gallup Poll. Nurses have topped the list each year since they were first included in 1999, with the exception of 2001 when firefighters were included in response to their work during and after the 9/11 attacks. Additionally, Gallup notes, “since 2005 at least 80 percent of Americans have said nurses have high ethics and honesty.” Car salespeople, lobbyists, and members of Congress are rated lowest.
“We could not be more proud to continually earn the trust and confidence of the public,” says Deborah Burger, RN, co-president of the nation’s largest organization of nurses, National Nurses United, which represents 185,000 registered nurses in all 50 states. “In their most vulnerable moments, patients and families know that they can count on nurses to care for them—to stand up for them.”
In 2014, RNs faced ever-growing challenges to safeguard patient safety at the bedside, ranging from flawed electronic medical record technology and unsafe staffing conditions, to fighting to keep hospitals open in underserved communities and securing proper protective equipment for front-line healthcare workers against the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, as well as the U.S.
A few highlights of the gains made over the last 12 months illustrate why nurses continue to earn the trust of the public year after year. RNs were at the forefront of:
According to Burger, a commitment to maintaining public trust and upholding high ethics, reflected in the Gallup Poll findings, is woven into the very fabric of nursing.
“We hold that trust with our patients and communities as a sacred bond,” she says. “Patients and their families expect nurses to fight for them at the bedside, even when it conflicts with the profit motive of far too many hospital managers, insurance companies and others in the healthcare industry who put the bottom line above patient interest.”
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