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A Few Successes —
We Can Change the Media!

Our leaders' book Saving Lives won two book of the year awards from the American Journal of Nursing and from Sigma Theta Tau international nursing honor society

After we awarded rock star Jack White one of our "Worst Media Depiction of the Year awards," he sent us a mock award in return and we engaged in a public debate about the media's influence on nursing

The View's Joy Behar and Michelle Collins; Kellie Johnson, Miss Colorado

Dr. Phil he has seen many "cute little nurses" who are out to "seduce and marry" physicians "because that's their ticket out of having to work as a nurse." Dr. Phil apologized for his comments and hosted two on-air segments to make amends to nurses after a Truth campaign

Disney's Lab Rats</em> apologized for suggesting nurse practitioners are flunky versions of physicians after a 2013 Truth campaign

The Baltimore Sun published the Truth's op-ed on the value of nursing and why we need a Nobel Prize in Nursing

Dos Equis digitally edited out nurse characteristics from its Most Interesting Man in the World commercial after the Beer Marketing Code of Ethics panel agreed with the Truth's petition

The Truth's 3,000 letter campaign led to the removal of this Skechers ad featuring Christina Aguilera

Dr. Oz dancing with a naughty nurse--Dr. Oz twice featured naughty nurses in 2010. The Truth's campaign led to global news coverage of it, and the show's subsequent apology and improvement

After 31,000 people signed a petition championed by Milka Stojanovic and Tyler Kuhk, the Truth successfully negotiated with MTV that they make amends in several important ways for Scrubbing In

Dallas Mavericks basketball dancers performed to Robert Palmer's Bad Case of Loving You in naughty nurse outfits. After a couple hundred Truth About Nursing supporters signed a petition, the manager called to say they were retiring the use of the naughty nurse outfits