Nurses have been long enough dealing with devaluation, and most of us try to prove the opposite in defensive and sometimes ineffective ways!
well, if we think about it, most of the people, no matter how high is their social, professional, personal or academic status face lack of respect at some point in their life. So, it is not specific to certain profession, ethnicity or else. It is the nature of human being that tends to impulsively judge, or subjectively stereotype before logically, maturely and objectively analyze.
Hence, if we take the occasional scorning looks or sarcastic comments from our fellow health care team members à la légère; if we focus on accomplishing our tasks to our best; if we use the time we might waste to weakly defend ourselves in contributing to the world of reasearch and science; if we conserve the energy of insisting on getting apologies in providing the best care to our patients who continuously rank us as the most trusted profession; our answer will be then much more convincing, infaillble, and unarguable!
At that moment, we can welcome our fellow's apologies with a big heart that only nurses have!