February 2015 — The Truth About Nursing

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Posted on February 1, 2015March 22, 2020 by Sandy and Harry Summers

Reports highlight the dangers of nurse fatigue and burnout February 1, 2015 – In recent months several health news outlets have run helpful pieces about dangerously high levels of fatigue and burnout…

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It’s all about the beds-and-vents
Media alarmed at lack of COVID-19 equipment, but not the nurses needed to run it Physician Aaron Carroll’s March 2020 New York Times piece about what we need to help coronavirus patients has helpful...Read More »
The work wife
Dr. Ken refills prescription for nursing stereotypes The final season of the ABC sitcom Dr. Ken presented nurse character Clark as the admiring “work wife” and clinical lapdog of the physician lead character. That portrayal...Read More »
The frontline soldiers
Nurse’s CNN op-ed highlights urgent need for protective gear in covid-19 response Theresa Brown’s piece explains that U.S. health workers like nurses must have personal protective equipment (PPE) to care effectively for...Read More »
Evolving standards of decency
Huffington Post and Hill items portray the ANA as a policy force Recipient of a Best Public Health Advocacy by Nurses 2010-2019 Award The Huffington Post reported that the American Nurses Association had decided to oppose not...Read More »
PPEmergency
March 21, 2020 – Please sign our petition asking top U.S. federal officials to protect vital health care workers in the midst of the covid-19 outbreak. We are urging federal leaders to...Read More »
No time to choose between life and death
L.A. Times on covid-19’s terrible toll on Wuhan health workers The Times report focuses on the desperate efforts to contain the coronavirus, which has killed many Chinese health workers; some have actually died of overwork....Read More »
Impressive
Hawaii Five-0 episode features strong, skilled nurse character A 2017 episode of the CBS show’s reboot series is about Five-0’s efforts to protect a comatose witness from heavily armed killers. The witness’s...Read More »
Stress position
New York Times ably describes PTSD in nursing but fails to identify expert as nurse A Times article did a fine job of explaining that nurses have high rates of PTSD and burnout. That’s because...Read More »
Pretending it’s a whiz kid world
CBS’s Pure Genius saw the future of hospital care–and it was an exclusive boutique! The futuristic hospital drama, which ended in 2017, offered a hopeful vision of care in which superstar physicians...Read More »
Let slip the ZDoggs of war
ZDogg MD’s fans are mad about our “Always a Nurse” analysis After we posted a critical analysis of ZDogg MD’s “Always a Nurse” tribute song in February 2020, the Internet celebrity bravely...Read More »
Nurse up
Nevada benefit for injured motorcyclists rethinks naughty nurse imagery Some Nevada motorcycle enthusiasts at first used naughty nurse imagery to promote a Leap Day 2020 benefit to get health equipment to injured...Read More »
A lot more than band-aids and boo-boos
NPR reports on apparent link between school nursing and lower absenteeism A January 2020 report on Tennessee NPR affiliate WKNO looks at the state of school nursing. The piece highlights the struggle for...Read More »
No deal
Guardian item says Brexit caused “nurse of the year” to have mental breakdown Nursing leader Joan Pons Laplana left Spain for the U.K. in 2000, and now he has a family there....Read More »
Kimmy hates nurses!
In alternative Kimmy Schmidt universe, the bunker is full of weak nursing students One of the final episodes of the sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which Netflix released in January 2019, presents an alternative world...Read More »
Always an Angel
Dissecting ZDogg MD’s “Always a Nurse” Tribute ZDogg’s musical tribute seems like a genuine effort to honor nurses, and a few bits highlight how tough and valuable nursing is. But most of...Read More »
The indestructible beat of Poplar
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...Read More »
Knives Out (2019)
Written and directed by Rian JohnsonStarring Ana de Almas, Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Toni Collette, Don Johnson, LaKeith Stanfield, Christopher PlummerProduced by Ram Bergman and Rian JohnsonLionsgate...Read More »
Do nurses need university educations?
Columnist for The Week is sure they do not Matthew Walther’s opinion piece argues lightheartedly that despite the malign claims of the “educational-industrial complex,” nurses do not actually need university degrees. After...Read More »
Glad you asked!
NYT op-ed Q: “Shouldn’t doctors control hospital care?” A: Absolutely not! Recipient of the Worst Effort To Exalt Physicians at the Expense of Nurses Award 2010-2019 Sandeep Jauhar’s New York Times op-ed...Read More »
Outrageous
Ontario nurses urge resistant city leaders to equip police with naloxone Recipient of a Best Public Health Advocacy by Nurses 2010-2019 Award The Windsor Star ran a good report about the persistent...Read More »
A beautiful sentiment
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...Read More »
“Wait, wait, wait, did she just say that a registered nurse could provide better care than a physician?”
Pennsylvania nurses publish powerful opinion pieces to protect public A February 2019 op-ed in The Philadelphia Inquirer opposed the criminalization of health care errors, using the case of a Tennessee nurse to...Read More »
You Wouldn’t Want to Live Without Nurses (2017)
Recipient of the Best Kids’ Book for Nursing 2010-2019 Award Written by Fiona MacDonaldIllustrated by David AntramSeries created by David SalariyaThe Salariya Book CompanyFranklin WattsScholastic, Inc.Ages: 8-12Nursing rating: 3 stars Overall rating: 2 1/2 stars...Read More »
Inventing justice
Recipient of a Recipient of a Best Coverage of Nurse Innovators 2010-2019 Award UMass nursing professor promotes health innovation—and nursing A Forbes piece by Stephen Key spotlights three award-winning female inventors, including...Read More »
Because stereotypes
Grey’s Anatomy offers a good nursing portrayal…for 30 seconds The ABC hospital drama has aired 350 episodes telling the world that only surgeons matter and nurses are clinical clutter, as we show...Read More »

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