Excellent Nurses Week TributeBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2026/10/excellent-nurses-week-tribute/
Timothy Shaw, MD, of Appleton, Wisconsin, wrote a great op-ed about nurses for Nurses Week 2003. There’s never a bad time, even 23 years later, to highlight this Wisconsin physician’s astute, comprehensive,… Timothy Shaw, MD, of Appleton, W …
Nurses Issue Call for Global Resistance to Trump Administration’s Attack on Public HealthBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2025/04/join-our-statement-condemning-the-trump-administrations-attack-on-healthcare/
As nurses and their supporters, we urge the public to make immediate and sustained efforts to resist the Trump Administration’s agenda to destroy global health. We have devoted our professional lives to… As nurses and their supporters, we u …
Slaying: “Paris Hilton Is a Naughty Nurse”Blog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2021/10/paris-hilton-katherine-schwarzenegger/
… gul Paris Hilton took the one too much traveled, with a tired naughty nurse outfit that undermined real nurses’ efforts to get resources during the pandemic. Meanwhile, Katherine Schwarzenegger kneeled in scrubs with her rescue dog a Two ro …
Just pick anybody up off the street and turn them into nursesBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2021/05/just-pick-anybody-up-off-the-street-and-turn-them-into-nurses/
… the Covid-19 era. Dame Kinnair made good points about the value of UK nurses’ work, the poor public understanding of their roles, and the inadequate pay th In March 2021 Dame Donna Kinnair, leader of the UK’s Royal College of Nursing, appea …
An army of traveling nursesBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/12/an-army-of-traveling-nurses/
… lved. A recent NBC News piece offered a good quick look at the travel nurses who are trying to cope with the current U.S. surge. In a BBC Newshour report, an NYU physician forcefully affirmed the key role skilled nurses play As 2020 ends, c …
The incoming Administration’s new Covid-19 task force excludes nursesBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/11/covid-task-force-lacks-nurses/
… w Covid-19 task force. The panel is mostly physicians and includes no nurses. But nurses provide the vast majority of the skilled care that Covid-19 patients November 11, 2020 — President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harr …
Nurses may be useful in triage, say non-nursesBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/10/dc-triage/
A September 2018 piece in the Post says a new program in which nurses triage 911 calls has helped some patients get better access to care, although it has not yet greatly reduced needless ambulance trips. Sadly, despite plenty of commentary …
“Why are they allowed to do it just because I am a nurse?”Blog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/10/violence-against-nurses/
Recent press items highlight the violence U.S. hospital nurses face today The Atlantic posted a piece in December 2016 on the growing threats from nurses’ patients, and the inadequate support from legislators… Recent press items highlight t …
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