We are starting 2025 off on a very positive note. Recent Gallup poll proves that nursing is the the most trusted profession in the United States for the 24th straight year.
Story Highlights:
- Nurses continue to be rated the most honest and ethical followed by grade-school teachers who were rated to be 15% less honest than nurses.
- Medical Doctors were rated 23% less honest than doctors.
- Lobbyists, Members of Congress, and TV Reporters got the lowest ratings, 63-72% less honest than nurses.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans say nurses have the highest honesty and ethical standards. Members of Congress, Lobbyists, and TV Reporters were given the worst ratings among the 23 professions included in this year’s poll. 76% percent of Americans say nurses have “very high” or “high” standards of honesty and ethics, compared with a 8% rating for members of Congress, 13% for TV Reporters, and 4% for Lobbyists.
Nurses have earned the highest rating in every year but one since Gallup added them to the annual survey in 1999. The exception was 2001, when firefighters — included only that year — earned a record 90% trust rating after their heroism in responding to the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers.
