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| Jan 1 | 2021 Truth About Nursing Awards Best and Worst Media Portrayals of Nursing in 2021 |
2022
| Dec 8 | Fall TV Overview 2022 What's good and bad for nursing on TV |
| May 8 | Set up to fail In support of RaDonda Vaught |
| February 27 | What is it good for? The Truth About Nursing stands with the people of Ukraine |
| February 20 | Better care through better software? Influential recent media shows the persistent gap between what nurses really do and what people think they do |
| January 8 | Call for nominations Submit your nominations for 2021 awards today! |
| January 1 | Could charting software be improved? Help us recognize the best nursing in the media |
2021
| December 31 | A family affair Recent media has shown nurses, and even aspiring nurses, helping loved ones manage serious illness |
| November 28 | We belong together Recent news items show nurses around the world advocating strongly for better working conditions during a time of crisis |
| October 31 | Halloween and the naughty nurse Trick or Treat? The naughty nurse image still haunts nursing, despite the pandemic and its “hero” narrative of the profession |
| Sept 30 | 2021 Fall TV preview! The fall TV season will have good portrayals of nursing! But most shows tell us that it’s physicians who matter in health care. |
| Sept 21 | Nurses Make America Great: In recent popular media, nurses range from OnlyFans sex workers to proud immigrants giving skilled and socially-aware health care |
| June 5 | Communication breakthrough: Recent news items feature nursing leaders advocating strongly for their profession and for public health in the Covid era! |
| March 21 | Macho macho man: An NP’s TikTok account dispels Covid myths—and shows how capable nurses are. Meanwhile, the major media offers mixed portrayals. |
2020
| December 31 | Who provides round-the-clock care? Recent press coverage of nurses’ role in Covid care varies widely, depending on the journalists involved--and who they consult. |
| December 11 | Nurse added to Biden-Harris Covid-19 task force: Jane Hopkins has been added as the first nurse appointed to the Biden-Harris Covid-19 task force |
| November 24 | Truth proposes nurses for Biden-Harris Covid-19 task force. The Truth About Nursing has proposed a diverse list of expert nurses for the Biden-Harris Covid-19 task force, which now has none. |
| November 12 | Which nurses should go on the Covid advisory panel? One of the Covid advisory panel members has been in touch with us and would like suggestions as to which nurses should go on the panel |
| November 11 | Urge Biden to add nurses to Covid advisory panel |
| November 8 | Coronavirus task force needs nurses |
| October 28 | Hundreds of people suffocating to death |
| October 8 | Nurse beyond borders |
| September 18 | 2020 Fall TV preview: Save a hundred lives... |
| August 25 | Paging Dr. Zenk |
| June 30 | When does the hero narrative work for nurses? |
| June 21 | Nurses trying to save us from ourselves |
| June 9 | Denouncing racism and calling nurses to action |
| April 30 | Don’t show up, don’t come out |
| April 16 | Nursing Now! |
| April 6 | Nurses need secretaries |
| March 26 | The frontline soldiers |
| March 21 | PPEmergency |
| March 18 | No time to choose between life and death |
| March 6 | Let slip the ZDoggs of war |
| February 14 | Kimmy hates nurses! |
| February 6 | Oscars edition: Nursing in Knives Out! |
| January 31 | A beautiful sentiment |
| January 17 | Amended Decade Awards and Diversity Concerns |
| January 17 | Amended Decade Awards |
| January 9 | Awards: Best and Worst Media of the Decade for Nursing |
2019
| December 13 | Go Grey's go! Urge show to build on fleeting nursing portrayal! |
| November 28 | “You could be a doctor!” Managing Thanksgiving as a nurse |
| November 22 | Don't let this be the top search result for "Nightingale" |
| October 31 | Cardi B does naughty nurse for Halloween 2019 |
| October 20 | Hollywood keeps the battle-axes coming! |
| October 9 | Dentist assumes NINR interim director post. Continue the pressure! |
| September 22 | Fall 2019 TV preview: All your favorites, plus the return of Ratched |
| September 19 | NIH Director responds about NINR Director position |
| September 16 | Survey! What qualifications should the NINR director have? |
| September 13 | NIH fails to explain why dentist will oversee NINR |
| August 29 | Should dentists oversee nurses? |
| July 26 | NP advocacy leads AARP to re-affirm support for NPs 1.0 |
| July 8 | Breaking boundaries 1.0 |
| May 30 | Are nurses "technicians" or "professionals"? |
| May 23 | How can nurses become fierce patient advocates? (Sandy Summers's graduation speech at Widener) |
| May 6 | I love a woman in a uniform |
| May 5 | Do nurses know things? Let's find out! |
| April 3 | Cartoon attacks NPs--take action! |
| March 26 | "Respect the nurses" |
| March 8 | How can we fix the mess nursing is in? Explainer video for the Coalition for Better Understanding of Nursing |
| March 3 | You're going to see a difference |
| February 14 | Flowers, chocolates, or respect? |
| February 7 | Powerful op-ed by nurse in The Irish Times |
| February 6 | We have a plan, let's put it into action |
| February 2 | Nurses injured in a Family Feud |
2018
| Sept 23 | Fall TV preview: Meh! |
| July 6 | Someone saved my life tonight |
| June 27 | The tragic hero |
| May 25 | Some women are more equal than others |
| Feb 2 | Love heals all things |
| Jan 5 | Should nurses be culling the herd? |
2017
| Oct 29 | Surviving Jigsaw and more |
| Sep 21 | 2017 Fall TV Preview |
| Sep 9 | American Horror Story: "Ratched" |
| May 31 | Founder of nursing is not a robot assistant |
| April 17 | Krugman apologizes for "menial" comment |
2016
| Dec 11 | The doctor school dropout |
| Nov 6 | Healers and heroes |
| Oct 16 | Talk more |
| July 4 | Unsafe at any speed |
| Feb 29 | Truth transforms website for mobile era |
2015
| Nov 26 | Making turkeys from surgical gloves |
| Oct 7 | Fall 2015 TV Preview |
| Aug 21 | Change agents |
| July 4 | Elmo, so good on vaccines; not so good on nursing |
| April 5 | The bedpan ceiling |
| Mar 29 | The No-Fact Zone |
| Mar 5 | Servanthood |
| Jan 30 | Worked to death |
2014
| Nov 23 | Heroes and inmates |
| Nov 19 | Ebola? Bring it on. |
| Oct 26 | Love! Witchcraft! Cupcakes! Fall television overview |
| Sep 17 | Oxford University Press releases Saving Lives (2nd edition)! |
| Aug 20 | Summer reading (and weeping) issue |
| June 4 | You can do it another day |
| May 8 | The American Nurse opens nationwide today! |
| Jan 28 | Nurse 3D naughty nurse killer movie hits theaters |
| Jan 7 | Modern Family: the dimwit as nursing student |
2013
| Dec 29 | Nurse Practitioner Evil": Disney's Lab Rats attacks NPs |
| Dec 10 | Awards for Best and Worst Media Depictions of 2012 |
| Nov 17 | Scrubbing Less |
| Oct 30 | MTV's Scrubbing In undermines nursing |
| Oct 20 | Glee's back to school nursing |
| Sept 17 | Fall TV Preview: Mighty Med meets Nurse Nation |
| Aug 7 | Jerky |
| July 21 | Special summer reading issue! |
| June 30 | The beck and call girls: Private Practice ends |
| May 31 | American Family Care wants to protect you from APRNs! |
| April 14 | Cunning, baffling, powerful: Nurse Jackie returns |
| April 1 | A Tale of Two Nurses |
| Mar 6 | Thanking the nurse |
| Jan 23 | I'm not there |
2012
| Dec 30 | Quacks Like You |
| Dec 7 | 2011 Truth About Nursing Awards |
| Nov 29 | One Day in the Life of the Uninsured |
| Nov 15 | "Are you familiar with kickball?" Contempt for nursing on The Daily Show |
| Oct 29 | The stuff of life: Watch Call the Midwife on PBS |
| Sept 17 | Fall 2012 TV Preview: Nursing in the Media |
| Aug 21 | Nurse understaffing: Are your knuckles white? |
| July 31 | Nursing at the Olympics! |
| June 6 | "Thank you Nurses!" |
| May 20 | Fired for educating a patient? |
| April 30 | "Why would you pursue that?" |
| Mar 16 | A Bad Case of Loving Nurses |
| Feb 13 | The hair salon expert |
| Jan 30 | Nurses speaking out worldwide |
2011
| Dec 28 | Instrumental and often overshadowed |
| Dec 13 | The talk of the town: nursing in The New Yorker |
| Nov 11 | Join our Las Vegas protest! |
| Oct 25 | Nursing: Isn't that Sweet? |
| Oct 10 | Nursing the debt machine |
| Sept 26 | Working as a nurse |
| Aug 31 | Sexy killer nurse movie Nurse 3D starts filming |
| Aug 4 | Saving lives and selling tomatoes |
| July 16 | Whitless: New NBC sitcom says it's sexy nurse time! |
| June 30 | Johnson & Johnson's new nurse TV ads |
| June 9 | Let's Make a Baby King! |
| May 5 | UCLA takes on Hollywood Nursing |
| April 8 | Not playing dead |
| Mar 31 | Hooters: It's the cure, baby! |
| Mar 3 | Pride and Prejudice |
| Feb 22 | Blue Valentine |
| Feb 7 | Sung and Unsung |
| Jan 28 | All Over the Map on Nursing |
| Jan 6 | 2010 Awards: Best and Worst Media Portrayals |
2010
| Dec 18 | Death by disrespect |
| Dec 11 | Announcing The Truth's First Annual Conference! |
| Nov 22 | Dancing with the star |
| Nov 2 | Nurses in politics! |
| Oct 10 | How do so many journalists miss it? |
| Sept 25 | 37 physicians, no nurses? |
| Sept 2 | Can't waste a minute |
| Aug 6 | Have fun playing nurse! |
| July 22 | Physicians are awesome |
| July 7 | Not leaving it in Vegas |
| June 5 | Nursing in the eyes of a child |
| May 30 | Help Nurses Help Haiti |
| May 12 | Celebrate Nurses' Century! |
| April 25 | Voice of America |
| April 13 | Radical transformation |
| Mar 24 | Nurse Jackie returns |
| Mar 14 | A Vision of Love? |
| Feb 24 | Angels and Advocates |
| Feb 7 | The good doctors in Haiti |
| Jan 31 | Messing with Texas |
| Jan 24 | "Brainless sex mad bimbos" |
| Jan 16 | The Orb of Life |
2009
| Dec 31 | The 2000-2009 Truth About Nursing Decade Awards |
| Dec 28 | The 2009 Truth About Nursing Awards |
| Dec 23 | In the thick of it |
| Dec 14 | Fighting equality disease |
| Nov 22 | Lung Cancer Alliance refuses to fix Dr. Lung Love PSA |
| Nov 6 | To serve Dr. Lung Love |
| Oct 29 | Boys don't nurse |
| Oct 12 | Not to get beat up |
| Sept 26 | It's time for us to buck up |
| Sept 13 | Fall 2009 TV Preview |
| Sept 9 | Getting to prevent things |
| Aug 30 | Ms. Goldberg needs some helpers |
| Aug 7 | "To everyone we are just tools" |
| Aug 1 | Post-its and other priorities |
| July 24 | Can we get cultures on that? |
| July 16 | Trouble handling this nurse |
| July 2 | The Meaning of Life |
| June 20 | "Hospital attendant" |
| June 8 | The Henchman of God |
| June 1 | Think different |
| May 24 | The beginning of a new age? |
| May 15 | Striving for greatness |
| May 6 | My Scrubs finale |
| April 29 | Not a doctor, but... |
| April 9 | What does that M.D. mean? |
| Mar 29 | "Obama against foreign nurses" |
| Mar 20 | The Disease Care Industry |
| Mar 13 | Nurses Needed |
| Mar 5 | Looking for Mr. McSteamy |
| Feb 26 | Helping you remember complicated facts |
| Feb 16 | The 2008 Truth About Nursing Awards |
| Feb 7 | Perceived myopic approach |
2008
At the end of 2008, our news alerts were partially on hiatus as we wrote our book Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk.
| Dec 14 | The Center announces Saving Lives |
| Sept 19 | Dark comedy |
| July 31 | "I don't use nurses" |
| July 3 | Hopkins and Housewives |
| June 15 | Restitution |
| May 23 | Unusual access to us |
| April 30 | NPs urge drug companies to end media bias |
| April 6 | "Wear the miniskirts and just save some lives!" |
| Mar 30 | "Ladies who give lollipops and band aids" |
| Mar 14 | Exposing their hands and faces |
| Feb 29 | Museum of Modern Nursing |
| Feb 14 | The Aging Nurse Project |
| Jan 25 | Hotter Than July |
| Jan 14 | Cashmere Mafia Nurses |
| Jan 6 | Golden Lamp Awards 2007 |
2007
| Dec 14 | "Is that even a word--midwifery?" |
| Nov 27 | Nurse, fetch me the ball. |
| Nov 10 | Baby We Were Born to Care |
| Oct 26 | What the world needs now |
| Oct 19 | The 100-year plan |
| Oct 12 | Naughty nurses too scary for Halloween |
| Oct 7 | Dentyne commercial: We did it! |
| Sept 30 | "I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues" |
| Sept 28 | Dentyne naughty nurse commercial |
| Sept 22 | The Surfing Receptionist and the Beautiful Bombshell |
| Sept 14 | A Nursing Morality Play in 3 Acts |
| Sept 7 | "A Nurse to the Homeless" |
| Aug 23 | To inspire and be inspired |
| Aug 17 | I'm gonna break somebody's heart tonight |
| Aug 7 | The dog ate my reporting |
| July 24 | Release |
| July 20 | "Fighting De-Nursification" |
| July 13 | Monday |
| July 2 | A Convenient Untruth |
| June 14 | Startling discoveries |
| May 30 | Allowing a Natural Death |
| May 24 | Crazy Mary |
| May 17 | They dare to be do-able |
| May 11 | When every week is nurses week |
| May 4 | And the first shall be first |
| April 27 | Shock Trauma nurses honored for clinical hotness! |
| April 19 | "Swaziland is dying. Will the last nurse on duty please turn off the lights?" |
| April 12 | "Every 2,000 Beijingers to have a community nurse by 2008" |
| April 5 | "Scrubs," lift us up where we belong |
| Mar 30 | The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations |
| Mar 22 | "I, Robot, will empty your bedpan" |
| Mar 20 | Kelly Ripa is your sponge bath nursey in her little nursey costume! |
| Mar 14 | Hell is other nurses |
| Mar 9 | Mourning Edition |
| Mar 2 | Supervisors |
| Feb 27 | Crossword helper (3 letters) |
| Feb 23 | "Do they deserve this six-figure salary for what they do?" |
| Feb 22 | House, R.N. |
| Feb 21 | Preventable errors |
| Feb 20 | Buzz Saw |
| Jan 31 | The Star-Ledger: "Nurses urge TV dramas: Get real" |
| Jan 10 | Nurses Find Media Image Needs Intensive Care |
| Jan 6 | "Iraq: Neglected nurses fight their own war" |
2006
| Dec 29 | "Italian nurses are better-looking...These [U.S.] ones scare me a bit. Don't even think about leaving me alone at night with one of them." |
| Dec 8 | The Nobel Prize in Nursing |
| Dec 3 | Infirmières Sans Frontières |
| Nov 24 | Error and Punishment |
| Oct 31 | Blood Simple |
| Oct 13 | Worth Dying For |
| Sept 27 | But when I became a physician, I put away nursing things |
| Sept 4 | The League of Extra Ordinary People |
| Aug 18 | Golem |
| July 23 | Emmys protest postponed |
| July 6 | An Inconvenient Truth |
| June 10 | Wanna Bee |
| May 23 | Q: What Scares Nurses? A: Who Cares? |
| May 14 | Touching the world |
| May 5 | Wigan Today: "Heart-throb hunks help patients relax" |
| April 21 | Jack White Slams Nursing Group for "Metaphorical Ignorance" |
| April 14 | McDrunky |
| Mar 30 | The ventilated elite |
| Mar 5 | The Overcomer |
| Feb 16 | "If there's ever an emergency, don't even bother trying to find me -- just call 911" |
| Feb 4 | Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine |
| Jan 25 | CVS pharmacist returns from Matrix; can now download entire nursing curriculum into your brain in four hours! |
| Jan 13 | Mattel on the "Nurse Quacktitioner": Problem? What problem? Oh--and did we mention the new Nurse Barbie? |
2005
| Dec 27 | Heroes, Whores and Handmaidens: 3rd Annual Golden Lamp Awards Rank Best and Worst Media Portrayals of Nursing in 2005 |
| Dec 22 | Center calls for boycott of Mattel products after company refuses to withdraw "Nurse Quacktitioner" dolls from market |
| Dec 15 | Duck Soup |
| Dec 4 | And on the eighth day, the Lord Physician created nurses, to clean up the mess |
| Nov 18 | Tip No. 76: For even quicker attention, drive your Hummer straight into the ER. Then offer the triage nurse a chocolate if he'll let you see the physician before all those little pedestrians! |
| Nov 10 | Update on the Benghazi Six |
| Oct 26 | The Benghazi Six |
| Oct 4 | TAGGED: Gillette pulls lusty-nurse fever ad |
| Sept 22 | Gimme that nurse fever, nurse fever. We know how to show it! |
| Sept 16 | The world crashes in, into my living room |
| Aug 26 | In the midst of life we are in death |
| Aug 8 | AP: "Nurses Care for the Niger's Malnourished" |
| July 29 | Take a Loved One for a Checkup Day |
| July 19 | Telling doctors what they ought to try |
| July 8 | Strangeways, Here We Come: University of Alberta medical students have something important to say about nurses--especially their breasts! |
| July 1 | Could 600,000 nurses help Make Poverty History? |
| June 22 | Jeopardy! to air clue on nursing on June 23 in response to Center campaign |
| June 9 | Schering-Plough asks "ER" to portray nursing accurately |
| May 25 | Let's put on a show! |
| May 10 | Judas in a lab coat: "ER" takes on that whole "female-physician-mistaken-for-a-nurse" thing |
| April 29 | You're with stupid now |
| April 24 | The scrubbed nurse |
| April 15 | ABC's Touchstone sends a response to nurses' concerns on "Grey's Anatomy" |
| April 8 | "You're the pig who called Meredith a nurse...I hate you on principle." |
| April 1 | Landmark JAMA study finds nurses to be autonomous, skilled; nation reels |
| Mar 30 | ABC's Grey's Anatomy: so chunky with Hollywood's contempt for nursing, you'll be tempted to use a fork. But use a scalpel! |
| Mar 23 | Grey's Anatomy: New ABC show boasts nine physician characters, no nurses |
| Mar 11 | Join Part II of the Center's ER Sponsors Campaign! |
| Mar 10 | Nursing Punk'd: Virgin Mobile's merry pranksters refuse to let public health stand in the way of a little extra cash |
| Mar 3 | Join our ER Sponsors Campaign! |
| Feb 27 | Center urges corporate giants to divest from NBC's "ER" |
| Feb 11 | Can any idiot be a nurse? Don't forget the sponge baths and happy endings! |
| Feb 7 | HHS agrees to explore new name for "Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day" |
| Jan 30 | U.S. News & World Report: "Who Needs Doctors?" |
| Jan 22 | The young quarterback |
| Jan 14 | Bras 'n Stereotypes 'n Things |
2004
2003
2002
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In our imperfect state of conscience and enlightenment, publicity and the collision resulting from publicity are the best guardians of the interest of the sick.
-- Florence Nightingale
Educate the world that nurses save lives!
