Assessment of the Nurse Image in Iranian Cinema

Nursing is a profession that requires a positive view of society and governments for growth and excellence. Providing a distorted or populist image of the profession can have negative consequences for health care providers. This article aims to explain the image of nurses in Iranian cinema in the last three decades.

This content analysis study was conducted in 1398 in Semnan University of medical science on 16 Iranian cinema and television films using the researcher-made checklist and was evaluated in three time periods of the 1991s, 2001s and 2011s. Content analysis of selected movies was performed based on a three-step myring method (summarizing, clarifying and structuring).

Most of the films reviewed in each of the three decades were socially thematic, with superpowers playing the role of all the portrayed nurses in the 1970s, while none of them were superstars in the next two decades. Most of the nurses that portrayed in these films were young and gradually, over the course of three decades, the marital status of nurses changed from unmarried to single. Also, the nature of the majority of works that provided by nurses over a three-decade period, ranged from the specialized to the non- special work

Depiction a scientific and accurate picture of the nurse and nursing practices in the films of the three decades under review has not a good progress and nurses have been involved in role stereotypes.Magnifying features such as female gender, celibacy, youth and inappropriate appearance of nurses and playing unprofessional roles that seen in the examined films, can perpetuate the societychr('39')s incorrect stereotypes of nursing that require correction.