Please support the Truth About Nursing and our efforts
to change how the world thinks about nursing in 2014!

Dear Supporter,

Over the past six days, 13 supporters have donated a total of $890 to bring our annual total of operating funds to $24,100.

Would you please be able to donate $25 before the end of the year to help us reach our goal of $25,000 to sustain our work?

Other ways you can help provide financial support for the Truth:

1) Book Sandy to be the keynote speaker at your organization's next conference. Sandy is a volunteer and donates her entire honoraria to the Truth About Nursing;

2) Assign Saving Lives as required reading if you teach a class on nursing professionalism. The authors are volunteers for the Truth and donate all royalties to support our work;

3) Please donate $25 or whatever you can afford now to support our work. You can give online, you can give by mail, or you can call in your gift to the Truth's headquarters at 410-323-1100.

We have to tell you a story. We know a nurse who has toiled her life practicing nursing. She continues in retirement and ill health to keep nurses informed of latest research and policies that affect them and their practice. A delightful woman and one we know to be living on an extremely tight budget. After we sent out our first fundraising letter last week, she was the first person to answer our call with a $25 donation. Given her budget, this would be the equivalent of donating $250 or $1000 for many nurses. We know that it was a big hardship for her to spare this money. Honestly, we couldn't accept it. We donated it back to her to support the work she also does promoting nursing. We're not so sure she was pleased with us, but we just can't take her money since we know how tight things are for her. So if you are struggling to such an extent, please take care of yourself first. But if you can spare it, we would be so grateful to have your support before year's end. Thank you and Happy New Year!
 

Our posters

Place Truth About Nursing posters at your school or workplace!

Tell colleagues and patients the truth! Our "I Am Your Registered Nurse" poster presents nurses as autonomous professionals on whom patients can rely. The poster explains that nurses are modern science professionals who protect and advocate for patients and empowers nurses to meet those challenges. Designed for the bedside, the poster comforts patients by educating them about the care environment and assuring them that nurses are there to fend for them.

Or consider the Truth's "Can Short Dresses Cause Short Staffing?" poster. This one takes humorous aim at the naughty nurse image that continues to haunt advertisements and other media, especially those aimed at males. The poster connects the naughty nurse image with the broader undervaluation that leads to gross underfunding of nursing education, research, and practice, ultimately threatening patients.

For every dollar that you donate, we'll send you up to 4 posters to hang at your school or workplace. Just email us at info@truthaboutnursing.org to tell us how many you'd like and where to send them. Thank you!
 

Nurses must become stronger

More nurses must become leaders in hospitals, non-profit organizations, and the government. But that's not going to happen unless we work together to change the way people think about nursing. That means changing how the media depicts nurses. Particularly because of the quickly expanding elderly populations in many nations, the future of health care depends on nursing. If people don't know what nursing is or why it matters, the profession won't get the funding it needs, and the global nursing shortage will continue to spiral out of control. More patients will suffer and die.

This is what we try to prevent every day.
 

Please do what you can to help us!

We are a member-supported charity operating on a tiny budget. We depend mainly on volunteer labor. But with more resources, we could do so much more.

Please click here to see our awesome member gifts, including bumper stickers, pens, RN patches, and DVDs of good depictions of nursing. We have a full range of things you can give your friends, family and colleagues that will help change their thinking about nursing.
 

Please donate now to support our work. Thank you!

Gina Pistulka, RN, PhD, MSN, MPH, Chair
Kelly Bower Joffe, RN, PhD, MSN, MPH, Treasurer
Rich Kimball, RN, PhD, MSN, MPH, Secretary
Christine Stainton, RN, MSN, Board Member
Sandy Summers, RN, MSN, MPH, Board Member, Executive Director

The Truth About Nursing
203 Churchwardens Rd.
Baltimore, MD USA 21212-2937
office 1-410-323-1100
board@truthaboutnursing.org

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