Nurses Unite Against ‘The View’ In Defense of Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson’s Monologue

Nurses took to Twitter to defend Miss Colorado Kelley Johnson‘s monologue about nursing after two hosts of The View made comments about its relevancy in the pageant.

NURSES DEFEND MISS COLORADO WITH #NURSESUNITE

While most of the contestants in this year’s Miss America contest chose to sing, dance or play a musical instrument for the talent portion of the show, Johnson performed an original monologue about her time spent as a nurse.

The monologue was inspirational as she told the story of a man Johnson cared for who had Alzheimer’s and how it, among other things, transformed her view of nursing. The judges seem to have liked her monologue as she was awarded second runner-up to the winner, Miss Georgia Betty Cantrell, later that evening.

Nurses all over the country were inspired by Johnson and shared the footage of her monologue on the internet. On Monday, however, hosts Joy Behar and Michelle Collins on The View made comments about Johnson’s monologue that did not sit well with her fellow nurses.

“She came out in a nurses’ uniform and basically read her emails out loud, and shockingly did not win,” Collins said, while Behar questioned why Miss Colorado was wearing a stethoscope around her neck.

Nurses, upon hearing these remarks, took to Twitter to defend Johnson’s decision to do a monologue, praising her for bringing to light the importance of nursing, and included hashtags such as #nursesmatter, #nursesunited, #mytalentisnursing and #nursesrock, as well as many of them explaining that it was indeed appropriate for Johnson to be wearing a stethoscope.