Jaymelyn Hubert

1 Introduction The portrayal of nurses in mass media – including fictionalized media – has consistently been criticized as inaccurate, unidimensional, and stereotypical (Girvin et al. 2016; González et al. 2023; Summers and Summers 2015; Hoeve et al. 2014). Nurses are often portrayed through damaging stereotypes as assistants to doctors, objects of sexual desire, and deskilled laborers offering solely compassion and personal care (Kelly et al. 2012; Turow 2012).