They don’t even get a pen!Blog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2022/03/they-dont-even-get-a-pen/
… serious care reflected in the charting. Apparently, two out of three nursing tasks are poop-related. And nurses don’t even get pens—can they read? In fact, the tasks the show sees as grunt work can involve great skill, since nurses use the …
Nurses’ public image undermines their claims for clinical supportBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2021/12/msnbc-scribes/
… cember 10, 2021 – Today the MSNBC site posted an op-ed by Truth About Nursing director Sandy Summers explaining that nurses need scribes and more staff support to provide care to patients in the Covid era. The piece argues that this lack of …
Essential workersBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/12/jane-hopkins/
… nurse to its Covid advisory board, after campaigns by the Truth About Nursing and others…. Nurse added to Biden-Harris Covid-19 task force In late November 2020, the Biden-Harris transition team added a nurse to its Covid advisory board, af …
Don’t show up, don’t come outBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/04/dont-show-up-dont-come-out/
… iami Health System. That piece takes readers inside the work of Covid nursing, especially the mental and physical challenges posed by burdensome personal protective equipment (PPE). Falise also delivers a message that no one is immune and t …
Evolving standards of decencyBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/03/ana-against-death-penalty/
… onviction exonerations, as well as the consensus in the international nursing community that the death penalty is a violation of human rights. The piece relied in part on Liz Stokes, “the senior policy adviser for the ANA Center for Ethics …