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Overview of projects that The Truth About Nursing would like to tackle in partnership with funders
Broad goals
Increase public understanding of nursing by providing accurate and comprehensive information on the nursing profession to news and entertainment media, to improve their depictions of nurses and coverage of nursing;
Motivate individual nurses to participate in the effort to change the public's perception of nursing by increasing nurses' media awareness and ability and motivation to reach out to the media to advocate for their profession;
Rallying nursing organizations, schools and hospitals to join the effort to improve public understanding of the nursing profession through a coalition of efforts aimed at reaching decision makers;
Educating decision-makers, insurers, and physicians about the value of nursing since their decisions affect the strength of the profession and nursing's ability to deliver quality care and strengthen autonomous practice;
Educating K-12 students and other career seekers about the value of nursing and why they should consider it seriously as a potential profession.
Many nurses contact us about the difficult situations they face today in the clinical setting. (Please see an articulate description of these challenges that was posted on the Truth's Facebook page). Based on what we hear, nurse understaffing remains common. Too many health institutions today disregard the opinions of nurses. In many facilities, RNs are replaced by health technicians, who are asked to perform nursing care even though they have not been educated as nurses. And nursing education and research receives relatively little funding. Patients deserve better. They deserve nursing care from nurses. If decision-makers understood that nurses are autonomous professionals with their own sphere of expertise, health experts who make the difference between life and death, nurses would be adequately staffed. They would be fully consulted in any decision-making. In fact, nurses would be the vast majority of decision-makers at health institutions, from hospitals to government entities. Health assistants would only perform clerical and other work for which they are qualified (as is the case at the pioneering Hahnemann Hospital). And nurses would be able to provide the full range of nursing care to the public and to practice with autonomy in a true collaboration with other health professionals. Improving health care in these ways means ensuring that decision-makers know the truth about nursing.
We are seeking funding to pursue work on the following projects:
The Basic Truth About Nursing Project
The Expanded Truth About Nursing Project
The Coalition for Better Understanding of Nursing Project
The Nursing Television Project
The Nobel Prize for Nursing Award (or an equivalent prize named after your foundation?)
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