To these contemplating dressing up this Halloween as a fetishized nurse, Quebec’s order of nurses says you must assume twice.
“The eroticization of the career is socially and professionally unacceptable,” the president of the OIIQ mentioned in a press launch.
“The decisions supplied in shops or on-line are scary!” he added, noting the scientific career has advanced and people stereotypically attractive portrayals solely devalue nurses and their work.
The order has determined to launch what it’s calling a “shock” marketing campaign on social media, to influence partygoers and trick-or-treaters to go away the new nurse costume within the cabinet and to go along with a dressing up that appears extra like an actual nurse’s uniform as an alternative.
While the OIIQ shouldn’t be about to begin producing Halloween costumes it mentioned, it has give you a model which portrays nurses in a practical means.
A gift-day and correct costume it suggests, would come with a set of basic, cotton medical scrubs, the type worn each day by docs and nurses within the province’s hospitals and clinics.
It would additionally embody, a stethoscope, a hospital identification card and a masks, which the order mentioned presents a extra “credible choice,” when dressing up as a nurse.