Images for Nurses

i encourage all nurses to search out images for the following:
Call it a Humanities Scavenger Hunt

Florence Nightingale Lady with the Lamp
The Scream

The Ghost Hunters television show-any episode of a haunted "TB" or "Insane" Hospital
Law and Order episodes that show how health care literacy goes beyond the patient into the world we all live in.

Over just one evening of television watching record how many medically oriented commercials you are exposed to including medication, medical treatments, and even foods

Watch the two movies to compare
The Fisher King and The Beautiful Mind

Read the Yellow Pages and the local newpaper's Health section

Read the newspaper or watch the news to see what medical conditions or excuses influence our everyday ?world. Are human images included and how do those images affect us? Do we share compassion or revulsion?

Is there a special health care literacy that would enhance or prevent issues that impact ourselves, our neighbors, etc?

As always these are just my personal thoughts about how we all connect. Such observations will show that health care literacy DOES NOT exist in a vacuum.
How do we as healthcare providers evaluate the truth and relevance of what we read and see? What is our responsibilities to our patients? What is our responsibility to our profession?

I believe educating patients can not be without keeping ourselves as nurses educated to medical changes, best practice guidelines, and always being educated in the expectations, needs, and capabilities of our patients in their current