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General Information on Nurses and Nursing

• What is nursing? What do nurses do?
• How can I become a nurse?
• Just how undervalued and underfunded is nursing?
• Who are nurse practitioners and what do they do?
• What is the nursing shortage and why does it exist?
• What are problems thwarting nursing recruitment and retention?
• Are nurses autonomous? Based on what I've seen, it looks like physicians are calling the shots.
• Magnet status: What it is, what it is not and what it could be.
• How many nurses are there? Do they outnumber physicians?
• How is nurse migration affecting nurses and the nursing shortage?
• Nursing professors: Planning your curriculum? We have ideas.

The Media's Effect on Nursing

• What are the main stereotypes of nurses?
• Even if the media ignores nursing, how can that affect nursing in real life?
• How can a TV drama, sitcom or commercial affect how people think about nursing?
• Is there research showing entertainment media affects what people think about health issues?
• Why won't Hollywood admit its portrayal of nursing is influential and take steps to fix it?
• What is the problem with the naughty nurse stereotype?
• Why do you object to the "naughty nurse" image?
• Why do you display the naughty nurse imagery you object to?
• That TV show is about physicians. How can you expect it to show nurses?
• Nurses are wonderful, but can't Hollywood focus on being dramatic and exciting?
• Get a sense of humor! How could jokes affect how people think about nursing?
• Is the world flat? Read our op-ed about addressing the nursing shortage.
• Should we create a Museum of Modern Nursing?
• The Nobel Prize in Nursing: Nurses' achievements merit international recognition.

The Truth About Nursing's Work

• Don't nursing itself and society bear some responsibility for poor understanding of nursing?
• Why aren't you more excited that nurses are among the "most trusted" professions?
• Don't people have a right to say whatever they want? You act like the speech police!
• Why are you so critical of everything the media says about nursing?
• Does The Truth About Nursing have some issue with physicians?
• Don't you want nurses to be compassionate? You seem uncomfortable with that.
• Why is some of the Truth's media analysis informal, irreverent or satirical?
• You try to be fair even to media products you think cause harm. Isn't that unusual for an advocacy group?
• Why do the Truth's media reviews discuss overall merit, not just nursing?

Nurse-Friendly Language

What is nurse-friendly language and why is it important?

• Should we use the term "medicine" to refer to health care generally?
• "You could be a doctor!" - Counter-statement
• Are nurses angels of mercy?
• Do nurses need a new name?
• Should we refer to every non-physician caregiver as a "nurse"?
• Is it OK to say only nurses who work at the bedside are "real nurses"?
• Is nursing a subspecialty of medicine?
• Should we refer to physicians as "doctors"?
• May I go to the "physician's office" and "take my loved one to the physician"?
• Should we refer to physician care plans as "orders"?
• Should we refer to breastfeeding as "nursing"?
• You want a career in science? Then why are you applying to nursing school?
• Can robots be nurses?

New Ways to Think About Nursing

• Do physicians help nurses improve health? (Are physicians the captains of the health care ship?)
• Does it matter if the news media identifies health leaders as nurses? Let's face it: they'll get more respect if we leave the nursing part out.
• Why do you call for more discussion of nursing errors and malpractice in the media?
• Yo, dog, what's up with this nursing thing? Are you nuts? (AKA: Why men should become nurses.)

The Value of Nursing

• Do nurses deserve a high salary for what they do?
• What happens to patients when nurses are short-staffed?
• Are nurses cost-effective?
• Do physicians deliver better care than Advanced Practice Nurses?
• Landmark JAMA study finds nurses to be autonomous, skilled; nation reels.
• Learn about the value of school nurses.
• Who are the professionals most likely to catch and prevent a medical error?
• What are some specific things nurses do that show the value of nursing?
• Is there video on the value of nursing? Yes – speech at Johns Hopkins commencement.

Workplace Guidance

• Problems in the workplace? Some general suggestions.
• Sexually harassed by your patients? One solution.
• What is physician disruptive behavior and why does it exist?

Become a Nurse!

• How can I become a nurse?
• Who are some notable nurses, living and historical?
• Who should become a nurse? What skills and qualities should you have?
• Where do nurses practice? Tell me about nursing specialties.
• Where can I learn to become a nurse? I want to find a nursing school.
• Where can I get nursing recruitment materials?