Health Populi January 13, 2025
While nursing has ranked top of U.S. professions for honesty and ethics for over a decade, U.S. adults speak even more assuredly in 2025 that nurses far outrank other professions in America. according to the latest Gallup Poll.
The study summary report is titled, “Americans’ Ratings of U.S. Professions Stay Historically Low.”
The data speak for itself — in 2025, the margin of people who put nurses on top of all other professions in America is much wider than in past years — and physicians have fallen further down the rankings.
78% of U.S. adults ranked nurses high or very high in the study, followed by 61% of people giving grade-school teachers a high/very high mark. That 15 point difference...