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Our statement condemning the Trump Administration’s attack on healthcare

As nurses and their supporters, we urge the public to make immediate and sustained efforts to resist the Trump Administration’s agenda to destroy global health. We have devoted our professional lives to improving public health, and we have an ethical obligation to speak out when we see threats to that goal. Therefore, we must strongly oppose the current federal government’s efforts to undermine and even destroy our work.

We object to the destruction of civil society, the assaults on science and the environment, and the terrorizing of vulnerable groups through a culture of bullying and cruelty that has no place in a decent world.

We object to direct threats to the nursing profession. These include plans to undermine the already desperate position of nurses in clinical practice through funding cuts and the violation of labor rights. We object to reported plans to eliminate funding for nursing research, including for the already starving National Institute for Nursing Research.

We also reject the broader efforts to tear apart networks of health and social wellbeing, both within the United States and worldwide. Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security have lifted generations out of poverty and saved countless lives. It is vital that these programs receive full funding. Indeed, Social Security could easily thrive by lifting the income cap on contributions. And a full range of other health and social programs must receive full funding, from those that address addiction and mental health to those that provide housing, food, and accurate health information.

Global health programs must receive full funding, including funding given through the World Health Organization and USAID, which prevents millions from dying of diseases like malaria, AIDS, and the next pandemic.

It is vital that we stop regulatory changes that will accelerate the degradation of our planet, worsening climate change, and that we continue to protect the safety of our food and water.

It is vital that government health institutions be led by qualified health professionals who are committed to science and public health, not by those who recklessly traffic in disinformation—spreading disease and worsening public health.

And it is vital to end government attacks on vulnerable populations, especially immigrants, children, and the LGBTQ+ community. We must protect civilians, both nationally and internationally, from violence, terrorists, and school shooters. We should work for peace everywhere.

These threats imperil our health today and in the future. And there is no justification for them. The United States is the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the history of the world. We can share some soup.

The dismantling of society happens piece by piece, so each of us must resist when tyranny knocks at our door—including our neighbor’s door. Do not “obey in advance” by discriminating against the vulnerable and undermining their health and safety. Stand strong when ICE comes. Do what you can to keep them out of schools and healthcare facilities.

We urge everyone in the entire world to work against the anti-health agenda of the Trump Administration, which threatens billions of lives. Speak out. Protest. If you or someone you know has been directly affected by the above policies, share that story widely. Make daily calls to Congress, which has the power to stop this devastating reversal of Click here to sign the statement. Thank you!


Burn the Witch
With limited evidence but much public hysteria, U.K. nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of killing many neonates, as highlighted in a recent New Yorker article. Was she—as nurses in some recent U.S. cases seem to be—a convenient scapegoat for the failures of more powerful colleagues or the healthcare system itself?
Read The New Yorker article by Rachel Aviv
Lucy Letby


Archives of the deleted US Government website

Vaccines and Immunization information

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"Letter to my abuser"
by Tristin Kate Smith
Tristin Kate Smith
Reduce nurse suicide
Write to Congress, ask them to pass
federal legislation (H.R.2530 and S.1113)
requiring minimum nurse-to-patient ratios
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Be part of the solution! Ask your nursing school, organization, journal or hospital to join The Coalition for Better Understanding of Nursing -- our new initiative to change how the world thinks about nursing. Learn more!

Recent speaking engagements:

SynergisPresentation to nursing deans: Synergis will be offering a periodic hour-long Nursing Leadership Forum for all Synergis partner nurse leaders. Our upcoming forum will feature Sandy Summers, the executive director of The Truth About Nursing, www.truthaboutnursing.org. Sandy is the co-author of the book Saving Lives: Why the Media’s Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk. She speaks frequently about empowering nurses to improve public perception of the profession, and her sessions are always both inspirational and informative regarding the state of nursing.

This free forum will be an invitation-only event and we will have time for questions/discussion. The forum will be offered online via Teams or Zoom. We are inviting all nursing deans from our partner schools, your nursing program directors (all nursing programs, not just those in partnership with Synergis), and lead faculty involved in program development with Synergis. For more information contact Carole Eldridge at Carole Eldridge email

How can nurses become fierce patient advocates?

Our executive director Sandy Summers delivers the graduation speech at Widener University

Strategic Research Alliance
The University of Sheffield in partnership with The Royal College of Nursing

University of Sheffield Royal College of Nursing Strategic Research Alliance Sandy Summers recently presented to a panel with UK nursing leaders. Stay tuned for the archived version of the presentation.

The Truth About Nursing's founder and executive director, Sandy Summers, presented to meeting of the Strategic Research Alliance, in partnership with the Royal College of Nursing, held at the University of Sheffield. Nursing professors organized a consensus development project from 2018-2023 and are conducting "a new programme of research activity, supporting the development of nursing research evidence and nurse research capacity. Ultimately the work will seek to influence public policy and promote better outcomes for the population and the NHS (the UK's National Health Service) workforce."

In 2020 the Alliance is addressing five questions in UK nursing care, one of which is: "What are the best ways of informing and engaging the public about nursing?" Sandy Summers, RN, MSN, MPH, attended to present on this question and engage with a lay panel via Zoom on October 19, 2020 in Sheffield, England. See more information on the Strategic Research Alliance web pages.

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