The Billionaire Welfare Bill Is a Death Machine Blog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2025/12/the-billionaire-welfare-bill-is-a-death-machine/
… rm, or part of some political calculation, but whatever it was, one immediate effect was to abandon the public to the cruelty that the expiration of the credits will cause. If the credits don’t continue, an estimated 4.8 million Americans w …
Burn the witchBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2025/02/burn-the-witch/
… two actually led physician staff, rather than nursing staff, but the media often misses that critical distinction in the way healthcare functions, leading to a false perception that physicians manage nurses. In any event, regarding the fir …
Careers of the futureBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2024/04/careers-of-the-future/
… der recognition for nursing as a STEM field would not only have the immediate financial benefits it discussed, but would also increase broader social respect for the field, as we have long argued. That could in turn improve nurses’ access t …
Set up to failBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2022/05/npr-on-radonda-vaught/
… the views of direct care nurses, who have expressed outrage on social media – videos with the “#RaDondaVaught” hashtag have had more than 47 million views. Many have argued, the report said, that the verdict will “demoraliz[e] and deplet[e] …
Living up to this superhero image is impossibleBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2022/02/five-myths-wash-post/
… many discrete health care “procedures,” as much as the entertainment media does credit physicians for doing them. Nurses are autonomous, college-educated health professionals with a distinct scope of practice, one that emphasizes preventio …
Progress and RegressBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2022/02/new-amsterdam-s1/
… irectors never speak to nurses, much less fire them! Of course, Max immediately proves that wrong, warmly assuring them in Spanish that he will be meeting weekly with nurses and custodians “so we can make your work here more rewarding, effi …
Nurses’ public image undermines their claims for clinical supportBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2021/12/msnbc-scribes/
… e argues that this lack of support is due in large part to social and media stereotypes that cast nurses themselves as assistants–as if clerical work is a good use of their time and skills. As Summers notes, nurses were understaffed even be …
A very cheeky displayBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2021/10/megan-thee-stallion/
… ching gloves and tie-up heels. As Megan intended, lots of other major media around the world also reacted gleefully. The U.K.’s Daily Mail termed it a “VERY cheeky display.” And the imagery remains popular now. For example, readers of news …
Running the showBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2021/05/running-the-show/
… ou might expect” expresses the common social misconception, which the media often reinforces, that physicians do “run the show.” Theresa Brown And today, an op-ed by nurse author Theresa Brown headlined “Covid-19 Is ‘Probably Going to End M …
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