The women on the view made fun of the nurse

[tavernier]

who was a contestant in the Miss America contest and appeared in her uniform to talk about her work with Alzheimer's patients as her talent.

Since then the shit has hit the fan!!
Stay tuned tomorrow as possibly there might be some empty seats on the show.

[Warpy]

1. Oh, my, don't piss off the nurses

because they're smart women who've survived both the humanities and some tough sciences.

They'll tell you what you said that was wrong, too.

[tavernier]

2. You got it!

Joy Behar asked why was she wearing a doctor's stethoscope which prompted the Littman company to respond with a very funny and snarky comment saying that all these years they had made the same stethoscopes for docs and nurses and didn't realize that they should have taken out the guts and put glitter on the ones for the nurses.

[BuelahWitch]

4. Don't piss off the patients who love them, either!

I had some wonderful nurses who cared for me when I was in the hospital last fall. My Mom's best "doctor" was a Nurse Practitioner.

[DrDan]

11. my son is a nurse - they are not all "smart women", some are smart men

I am proud of him - he studied hard, he works hard . . . and he gets involved with his patients

and he married a nurse

[Warpy]

17. You're right, some are tough, smart men. I've worked with some great ones

and I'll send him my favorite line from a man who was sick of being asked to lift everything in an ortho unit, "Just 'cause I've got 'em doesn't mean you can bust 'em."

[daleanime]

3. They still hold the Miss America contest?

It's been decades since I've watched it.

Regardless that has mean spirited and just plain rude to the nurse, she deserves a lot better.

[Orrex]

14. ^^That

I thought the last one was in 1984 or something?

I defy the average American to recall by name any winner other than Vanessa Williams.

[murielm99]

5. They did that?

Not cool. I heard her monologue, but did not watch the rest of the pageant. I don't like those sorts of shows. My husband was watching it.

If they are making fun of nurses who take care of Alzheimer's patients, they need to apologize.

[pinboy3niner]

6. What kind of fool would dis nurses?

I've had a lot of nurses, and I loved them all. And one nurse literally saved my life.

I LOVE nurses!

[Surya Gayatri]

9. Angels in human form, most anyway. Caring patience and attentive expertise during long, hard shifts.

Let the Creative Entity bless and keep the nurses!

[snooper2]

20. The creative entity is a supermassive black hole, FYI

[Surya Gayatri]

22. Whatever he/she/it is, let it give some special TLC to nurses. They work twice as hard as

docs for a fraction of the money. They do gag-making jobs with patience and good humour, and they know how to break life & death news with tact and compassion.

[Travis_0004]

7. Speaking of jobs with no talent

I think a cohost on the view is probably at the top of the list.

But I do have to agree with the view im some ways, she might be a damn fine nurse, but I dont see how that qualifys as a talent for a talent show.

[840high]

8. People still watch the View?

[roguevalley]

10. you have to be six kinds of awesome to deal with alzheimers. what a load of douches.

[Skittles]

12. don't make me look it up

what did they say?

[tavernier]

13. Apparently ridiculed the girl

because she presented her vocation as a talent, and wore her uniform instead of a sparkly leotard. Lots of YouTube clips.

However, I didn't see it but my hubby did and he disagreed that they were dissing her alone; he thought they were making fun of beauty contests in general.

Btw, I am a nurse coming on 40 years. I certainly would never win a beauty contest these days, but I say good for the nurse who did that. It is a vocation, a job, but believe me, it takes plenty of talent to juggle the daily in and out challenges of both hospital and home care nursing.

[pinboy3niner]

15. I was married to a nurse once

She was one of the top critical care nurses in the country, recognized by state and national nursing associations.

From her I really gained an appreciation for the rigorous training they go through and the professionalism required in their job. There is a hell of a lot more to nursing than the patient sees.

[BuelahWitch]

16. Here is the clip

[snooper2]

21. Good thing the clip is only 35 seconds, 37 seconds and my ears start bleeding

I guess when you just have a single demographic for your show you can talk/act like that

[ryan_cats]

18. If you're ever in the hospital

If you're ever in the hospital, you want the nurses on your side. They are overworked, treated badly by doctors and your only help should you need it and frequently the only conduit to what is going on with your case.

[Fast Walker 52]

19. they blew it BIG TIME

[ohnoyoudidnt]

23. There is a FB page Show me your stethoscope created in response to this

with a lot of funny memes and replies to The View.

[Dont call me Shirley]

24. The View, thumbs down. Alzheimer's nurses, thumbs up.