December 3rd, 2003
Honest Nurses
Public Rates Nursing as Most Honest and Ethical Profession
Nurses top Gallup’s annual survey on the honesty and ethics of various professions, followed by other medical professionals like doctors, veterinarians, pharmacists, and dentists. Car salesmen, HMO managers, insurance salesmen, and advertising practitioners are rated as the least honest and ethical. Overall, there has been little change in the public’s rating of the honesty and ethics of professions over the past year. The public’s image of the clergy has partially recovered from last year’s child sexual abuse scandals, while the images of business executives and stockbrokers remain slightly lower than they were before the recent wave of business scandals.