Student suspended for saving friend’s lifeBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2016/02/anthony_ruelas/
… intern with Congressman Henry Cuellar this summer and the Truth About Nursing’s Citizen Hero Award. Although Ms. Shaw did a fairly thorough job of reporting on the story generally, we never heard from the RN at the school or what she did to …
The ProfessionalBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2026/03/the-late-shift-heldin-a-powerful-film-on-nursing-understaffing-and-moral-injury/
… nly nurse colleague on the unit must care for 25 patients with only a nursing student to help. The results are pain, discord, and errors that endanger the patients, as well as wrenching moral distress for the nurses. Floria and her colleagu …
Cancel that cultureBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2021/09/cancel-that-culture/
… holistic care focus. On the contrary, such care is at the core of the nursing practice model, or what we might call the “nursing culture.” And nurses have long pushed for just the kinds of reforms Pearl is advocating, albeit with less power …
The incoming Administration’s new Covid-19 task force excludes nursesBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/11/covid-task-force-lacks-nurses/
… or any national Covid panel, please see the excellent op-ed that UCLA nursing professors Anna Dermenchyan, RN, PhD, and Kristen Choi, RN, PhD, published in The Hill in August 2020. Among their points is that nurses are often omitted from su …
Nurses may be useful in triage, say non-nursesBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/10/dc-triage/
… am, no ED nurse, no D.C. government nurse, no public health nurse, no nursing scholar or leader. The reporter may have felt that he only needed the medical director, whose comments about his “feedback” to the nurses indicate that he has a s …
Nurse beyond bordersBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/10/virgin-river-season-1/
… e at a remote marijuana camp, and the physician’s regressive views of nursing. December 2019 – The Netflix drama Virgin River focuses on Los Angeles advanced practice nurse Melinda Monroe who, for reasons that are only gradually revealed, t …