Sexy duds make nurse group sick

The Chicago Tribune reports:

The specialty at the Heart Attack Grill in Tempe, Ariz., is a Quadruple Bypass Burger that's stacked high with four half-pound beef patties, cheddar cheese, red onions, bacon, lettuce, tomato and a special sauce.

But it's not the burger's fat content or cholesterol payload that has raised the ire of Baltimore-based The Center for Nursing Advocacy. Rather, it's how the burger is served: by waitresses in revealing naughty-nurse uniforms.



The waitresses wear stethoscopes around their necks and crosses on their nurse hats. They also wear fishnet stockings and tight, cleavage-baring tops. On occasion, they jump into the arms of their customers.

Sexually available is not exactly the image Sandy Summers believes should be projected for those in the caring profession.

A former trauma center nurse, Summers is a founder and the executive director of The Center for Nursing Advocacy, which polices the portrayal of nurses around the world. The biggest violators, in the center's view, are those who connect nursing with titillation.

That's where the Heart Attack Grill comes in. Summers is pressuring the restaurant to drop its sexy nurse motif and has begun a letter-writing campaign against it.

"The endless association of sex and nurses leads people to believe that maybe nurses really are available to provide for the sexual needs of patients and physicians," Summers said. "It degrades the professional image, it demoralizes practicing nurses and drives any self-respecting person away from considering the profession."

No word yet on whether Ms. Summers is going to enter politics.That seems to be the profession of choice for those who want to restrict other people's choices.Here's the Heart Attack Grill website.Check out the blonde,you probably will not see her in your local women's studies department.