New Zealand government partners with soap opera to promote nursingBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2023/02/shorthand-street/
… team up with the soap opera Shortland Street to address the nation’s nursing shortage. This move was easy to mock, but in fact even the silliest fictional media has the potential to affect how the public sees nursing—for In August 2022, Th …
Alexandra Robbins examines the state of U.S. nursingBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2019/02/alexandra-robbins/
… list Alexandra Robbins placed many generally strong pieces about U.S. nursing in major publications to promote her 2015 book The Nurses: A Year of Secrets, Drama, and Miracles with the Heroes of the Hospital. Her long May 12 piece in Politi …
Founder of nursing is not your robot assistantBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2017/05/nightingale-is-not-your-serf/
… which the company has thoughtfully named “Florence,” after the modern nursing founder and public health pioneer Florence Nightingale. What an honor! After all, Nightingale was well known for meekly recording everything physicians said! Or w …
“Patients die because nurses are too busy”Blog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/06/patients-die-because-nurses-are-too-busy/
Press items report deadly nursing shortage on both sides of the Atlantic A study of European hospitals shows that missed care due to nurse understaffing has increased death rates, according to an… Press items report deadly nursing shortage …
HangoverBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2019/02/hangover/
… f explaining some of the harmful effects of short-staffing, including nursing burnout. The piece also cites research providing evidence of those effects on patients, which include missed care, higher rates of errors, and an increased risk o …
A beautiful sentimentBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2020/01/garcia-navarro-buerhaus/
On NPR’s “The Call-In,” nursing is just as hard as low-skilled tending can be! On Weekend Edition Sunday, several direct care nurses addressed the state of nursing. Unfortunately, what came across was mostly the suffering… On NPR’s “The Cal …
Working lifeBlog
https://blog.truthaboutnursing.org/2015/02/01-working-life/
… y Health site, “Why America’s Nurses Are Burning Out,” states that a “nursing shortage and long hours has led to high levels of burnout in nurses.” The report is framed by the story of Annette Tersigni, who left the bedside after just a few …
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