In today's society, nursing has faced several challenges in its attempt to become a recognized profession. Nursing has gone through many phases of stigmatization, changing with the evolution of technology and society as a whole. Going from a low-class responsibility in the 19th century, to becoming the respected profession it has become today, public perception, the way society sees, has changed significantly over the past two hundred years. Along with these changes has come a major shift in technology that is causing the responsibility of nurses to change and now individual actions are tainting the image of the nursing profession. This is due to technological evolution with mass communication drawing attention to the negative actions of nursing individuals, overshadowing the positive aspects of nursing. The public perception of nursing today is different from that of the 19th and 20th centuries. During the 1800s nursing was not seen as a profession, but a role played by lower class women in society. (Klainberg and Dirschel, 2010). The ability to care for the sick and child carriers was considered low status. Nursing was shown in current media, most of which were novels, as poor, dirty, and alcoholic, as seen in Charles Dickinson's novel Martin Chuzzlewit. It was only through the work of Florence Nightingale in the mid-1800s that the public's perception of what a nurse was changed. (Daly, Speedy and Jackson, 2014) Up until this time most nurses were prostitutes and poor due to the low statues, so when Nightingale, a Victorian upper class woman, became a nurse this was a new idea . During the war she worked as a nurse, dealing in detail... halfway down the page... with a series of mistakes made in a single shift. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia: HERALD SUN. Retrieved April 2, 2014, from http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/nurse-banned-over-a-series-of-blunders-in-single-shift/story-fni0fee2-1226704580649Klainberg, M. and Dirschel, K. M. (2010). Today's nursing leader: managing, succeeding, excelling. Publishers Jones and Bartlett.Summers, S., & Jacobs, H. (2009). Saving lives: Why the media's portrayal of nurses puts us all at risk. New York, United States of America: Kaplan Trade.Sunday-Telegraph. (2011, March 6). Nurses fired after horror games with patients revealed. Retrieved from News: http://www.news.com.au/national/nursing-home-horrors-uncovered/story-e6frfkvr-1226016507730About us. (2013, October). Retrieved from Australian Health Practitioners Regulatory Agency: http://www.ahpra.gov.au/About-AHPRA/Who-We-Are.aspx