Where can I get nursing recruitment materials to become a nurse?
Download our Be a Nurse flyer and distribute at will
Watch some videos on what it's like to be a nurse
Nursing Diaries: The Rookies -- possibly the best 1-hour film on nursing.
Nurses-- A five-part documentary on different nursing specialties: critical care, emergency, newborn intensive care, cancer, and psychiatric nursing.
Call the Midwife -- Television series featuring nurses providing midwifery and public health care to an impoverished section of town in the UK.
Mercy -- Get a DVD of a television series that featured nurses making a positive difference in the lives of their patients and was generally free of stereotypes.
Nurse Scientists -- A very good 11-minute video on nurse researchers and their work.
A Day in the Life -- Nursing at Michigan -- A fairly good 15 minute video featuring nurses describing the details of their work.
A few positive television show clips to watch:
Mercy -- Sonia advocating for a gender identity patient
Mercy -- Veronica providing pychosocial care
Nurse Jackie -- advocating for a head injured patient
Written information on nursing
See an exciting array of things that you never knew nurses did.
Articles
The making of an ICU nurse-- A great 4-part series of articles in the Boston Globe.
Swamp Nurse -- The work of a family partner nurse in the bayou.
Personal Stories
Two Cups: The healing power of tea-- A story about a nurse who saved her patient's life with a cup of tea (or in pdf format).
Care and chaos on the night nursing shift-- An article by a first-year nurse who was formerly an editor at the Wall Street Journal.
Books
The Nightingale of Mosul: A Nurse's Journey of Service, Struggle, and War
Intensive care: Story of a nurse -- Bestselling author Echo Heron's book on her experiences in the ICU.
Blogs, Letters, Op-Eds
Nursing and the word -- Cortney Davis on her experience as a nurse and many more of her writings on nursing
One Nurse At A Time -- A blog featuring the experiences of foreign aid nurses.
What does a nurse really do? One patient's perspective.
Why every week should be nurse appreciation week -- A physician's perspective on the value of nursing.
Registered Nurse - A Career Guide at Nurse.org
Poster
I am your registered nurse-- Download a poster to inspire you.
Bumper stickers
Click here to order bumper stickers for a nominal donation
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Click on the links below for detailed information:
WHAT
What is Nursing?
WHERE
Where do nurses practice? Tell me about nursing specialties.
WHY
Why become a nurse?
HOW
How can I become a nurse?
WHO
Who should become a nurse?
Who are some nurse leaders, past and present?
Go back to our Become a Nurse page
Last updated November 12, 2021
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