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Progress and RegressBlog

https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2022/02/new-amsterdam-s1/

… here is nothing new about the New Amsterdam’s regressive portrayal of nursing. David Schulner created New Amsterdam, based on the memoir Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital by physician Eric Manheimer. Nurses know better Yo …

The school health scandalBlog

https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2022/01/the-school-health-scandal/

… The piece might have done much more to explain how inadequate school nursing harms students, not only in terms of poor health (for example, in a lack of preventative care like vaccinations and screenings) but also in the education students …

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 …

Unidirectional sexual healingBlog

https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2021/10/msnbc-op-ed/

… ostumes October 27, 2021 – Today MSNBC posted an op-ed by Truth About Nursing executive director Sandy Summers and senior advisor Harry Summers explaining why the naughty nurse was a bad costume choice for Halloween. Citing recent examples …

Absolute beginnersBlog

https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2021/02/nurses-intro/

… ed on the first couple episodes, the show seems to be a mixed bag for nursing. It focuses on conscientious nurses who have real health knowledge, but they are so inexperienced that viewers get too little sense of nursing expertise and autho …

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 …

The indestructible beat of PoplarBlog

https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/02/call-the-midwife-season-5/

Call the Midwife’s fifth season has more great nursing The BBC show’s 2016 season again featured nurse midwives providing skilled and usually autonomous care to a range of poor patients in 1960s… Call the Midwife’s fifth season has more gre …

“Wait, wait, wait, did she just say that a registered nurse could provide better care than a physician?”Blog

https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/01/pennsylvania-op-eds/

… sources, advocating on health policy issues with special urgency for nursing. On February 21, critical care nurse Jason Jaewan Lee had a persuasive op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer arguing against the criminalizing of health care errors. …

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