 | | News on nursing in the media Are nurses getting the respect they need to save lives? March 26, 2019 | | | | | | | |
Two very different news items show nurses to be creative advocates for the vulnerable Detroit's Fox 2 television station reports that a local emergency nurse has developed a successful protocol to identify victims of human trafficking. And a New Yorker piece highlights an oncology nurse's tenacious efforts to counter anti-vaccine disinformation within her ultra-Orthodox Jewish community. | | | | | | | |
Grey's Anatomy qualifies for the dramatic irony Olympics On Grey's Anatomy, surgeons are still gods and nurses are still low-skilled lackeys. But that didn't stop one surgeon character from delivering a mind-boggling speech declaring that a key rule for successful surgeons is to listen to and respect nurses. | | | | | | | |
St. Vincent plays the naughty nurse Alt-rock icon St. Vincent puts the naughty nurse first in a series of sexual role-playing images in the song "Savior" from her acclaimed recent album MASSEDUCTION. The song may not do enough to reject that specific image. But it does seem to reject women's confinement to stereotypical roles and the related expectation that they martyr themselves for others—themes to which nurses can relate. | | | | | | | |
By guest reviewer Colby Denson, RN Physician's 2006 book advocates using midwives instead of obstetricians--in part by portraying Labor & Delivery nurses as ignorant servants. | | | | | | | |
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| | Sandy Summers to speak at Widener University in May May 16, 2019 - Truth About Nursing director Sandy Summers is thrilled to be set to speak at the Nightingale ceremony for graduating seniors of the Widener University School of Nursing! It will be held at The Springfield Country Club (400 W Sproul Rd, Springfield, PA 19064) at noon on Thursday, May 16. Widener is located in Chester, Pennsylvania. | | | | Having an event? Book Sandy today! Let Sandy Summers empower your nurses and help them fully embrace their autonomy! Patients deserve better protection. Let Sandy help your nurses and students fully embrace their autonomy to strengthen nursing care, reduce errors and improve care! Sandy recently spoke in Washington DC, Manitoba and Vancouver, and gave the graduation speech at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. She speaks widely to a variety of international nursing groups. Click here to see details and book her today! | | | | | | | |
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| | Planning your curriculum? We have ideas Many nursing professors rely on the extensive and varied materials on the Truth's website to help their students engage with critical issues nurses will face in the future, from their public image to key aspects of nursing education, practice, and advocacy. Since 2001, we have explored and analyzed how the global media and society in general has seen the nursing profession. Join your colleagues and use this material to help plan your curriculum! Please consider some of these ideas... | | | | | | | |
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| | Imagine a world where nurses were fully empowered to protect patients Get an author-signed copy of Saving Lives for you or a friend Saving Lives is the transformative book acclaimed by nurses, nursing leaders, scholars, and the media. It can help your friends, colleagues, and students be the strong nurses our profession needs to protect patients from errors, injuries, and disease. See praise for Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nursing Puts Us All at Risk by leaders in nursing and the media as well as the awards it has earned, including three Book of the Year awards from the American Journal of Nursing and an award from Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society of Nursing. The updated second edition from Oxford University Press is now available! All donations and royalties go directly to support The Truth About Nursing, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Thank you for your support! | | | | | | Think about the future New international text Nurses and Nursing leads off with chapter by Truth leaders The exciting new textbook Nurses and Nursing: The Person and the Profession includes a chapter on nursing's image by Truth leaders Sandy Summers and Harry Jacobs Summers. Edited by Padraig O Luanaigh, RN, EdD, the thought-provoking new textbook from Routledge "draws on international contributors with a range of backgrounds to explore, engage with and challenge readers in understanding the many aspects and elements that inform and influence contemporary nursing practice." Our chapter is "Nursing's public image: Toward a professional future." We thank Dr. Luanaigh for the opportunity to be a part of this important new project. Please consider this book for your classes in professionalism, nursing and society, and nursing leadership. Click here to request a free copy for review now! See more about the book here... | | | | | | | |
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