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Wear the RN Patch! Join us in creating a professional nursing uniform

We urge all nurses to wear professional-looking uniforms to help create a public image of nurses as educated professionals deserving respect. It is important that patients be able to identify their RN, so they know the who the person is responsible for their care.

Why should you wear the RN patch? See:

"Who's the RN?: Identifying nurses simply by the patch," an editorial by Diana J. Mason PhD, RN, FAAN, AJN Editor-in-Chief and Karen Buhler-Wilkerson PhD, RN, FAAN in the April 2004 edition of the American Journal of Nursing.

Free Gift. When you join or renew your membership with The Truth About Nursing now, we will give you three free RN patches as a thank you for joining. Click here to become a member of the Truth and get 3 patches for as little as $9. The original RN patches were designed by Mark Dion and J. Morgan Puett in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia for the exhibition, RN: The Past, Present, and Future of the Nurses' Uniform, presented in 2003. The "RN" patch size is 45 x 55 mm or 1 3/4" x 2 3/16". We also have the following patches:

"RN, BSN"       "NP, MSN"       "LVN"
"RN, BScN"     "CNS, MSN"     "LPN"
"RN, MSN"      "RN, PhD"        "RN, DNSc"

These patches are about
1 3/8" x 3 5/8" or 35 x 92 mm. Please specify your preference or "plain." To order additional RN patches, please add $1.50 for each extra patch onto your member donation and send us an email at info@truthaboutnursing.org to let us know how many patches you would like. (For instance, if you want 7 patches, you would make at least a $31 donation (unless you are a student, then start at $9 and add on). The first $25 includes 3 patches and the additional $6 is for 4 additional patches at $1.50 each).

Bulk orders:
10-49 patches = $1.25 each;
50 patches or more = $1.00 each.

Non-member pricing:
0-9 patches: $3.50 each;
10-49: $2.50 each;
50 patches or more: $2.00 each.

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