October 2019 – The Truth About Nursing

She bad

Posted on October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 by Sandy and Harry Summers

Cardi B does naughty nurse for Halloween 2019 Rap star Cardi B wore a naughty nurse outfit for a recent performance, and then posted an image of it on Instagram, leading to…

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A new protocol

Posted on October 24, 2019February 11, 2020 by Sandy and Harry Summers

Washington Post runs obit for nurse Anna Mae Hays, the first female U.S. Army General An obituary in today’s Post reports that Hays, chief of the Army Nurse Corps, became the U.S….

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My beautiful dark twisted fantasy

Posted on October 19, 2019October 31, 2019 by Sandy and Harry Summers

On ABC’s The Good Doctor, physicians do everything and nurses rarely appear The first season of the hit hospital drama from David Shore (House) features a surgical resident with autism and savant…

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Heaven knows we’re Miseryable now

Posted on October 19, 2019December 26, 2019 by Sandy and Harry Summers

Castle Rock resurrects legendary battle-axe Annie Wilkes Hulu’s Stephen King series is adding Annie Wilkes, the murderous nurse who imprisoned and tortured her favorite novelist to make him keep her favorite character…

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Business Insider gives worldwide coverage to Truth’s campaign for nurse to lead NINR

Posted on October 9, 2019October 29, 2019 by Sandy and Harry Summers

September 13, 2019 – Today Business Insider posted a piece by Allana Akhtar about nurses’ objections to the recent appointment of non-nurses as interim leaders of NINR. The article was “The US…

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Dentist assumes NINR interim director post

Posted on October 8, 2019August 31, 2020 by Sandy and Harry Summers

Search for permanent director continues Despite protests by thousands of nurses, and constructive interactions with NIH director Francis Collins, a dentist and a biologist have now assumed the interim leadership positions at…

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The currency of care

Posted on October 4, 2019February 11, 2020 by Sandy and Harry Summers

The New Yorker on why we’re “perpetually short” of nurses James Ledbetter’s “Currency” feature from November 2015 examined the causes of chronic U.S. nursing shortages, rightly focusing on insufficient resources for education…

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“Save one life, you’re a hero. Save a hundred lives, well then you’re a nurse.”
Nursing will be back to prime time. The big news is Netflix’s release of Ratched, but the streaming giant will also offer more of the actually-pretty-good portrayal of nursing on romantic drama Virgin River. And it seems there will always be the BBC’s Call the Midwife, with its strong portrayals …Read More »
Paging Dr. Zenk
In July 2020 the National Institutes of Health announced that Shannon Zenk, RN, PhD, would assume the role of director of the National Institute of Nursing Research in fall 2020. Since August 2019, NINR has been without a nurse director, with that role being filled on an interim basis by …Read More »
The Action Figures
An engaging Vox video argues that men should overcome regressive gender notions and enter nursing, which it calls the “robot-proof” “job of the future.” But the video itself reinforces the gendered angel stereotype that nursing is all about “caring and empathy,” ignoring the advanced scientific skills and critical judgments that …Read More »
Working nurses to death
Jason Silverstein posted a strong report showing that the widespread understaffing of U.S. nurses costs lives and burns out nurses. Commendably, the piece relied solely on nursing scholars and nursing research to make its points. It might have also explained how nurses save lives and addressed potential solutions to the …Read More »
She’s here
Creator Ryan Murphy describes the new show, about the iconic battle-axe nurse from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, as “an imagining of how this monster was created.” We have long feared the series will reinforce the harmful stereotyping of the original, which linked female nursing authority with malevolence. Will …Read More »
“Looking for empathy in medicine? Start with nurses”
After a June 2020 piece in the Baltimore Sun marvels at medical students providing holistic care to Covid patients, a local nurse explains that this extraordinary care innovation has actually been at the core...Read More »
Hot
NY Post: Covid nurse suspended for wearing little beneath clear gown Post pieces reported that a Russian nurse had been suspended for wearing only her underwear, or maybe it was a swimsuit, under her...Read More »
Nurses: Into the Banksy-verse
U.K. street artist’s Covid-19 tribute presents nurse as superhero A new Banksy work hangs in a hospital in southern England. It pays tribute to NHS staff by showing a boy playing with...Read More »
“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...Read More »
A very determined nurse practitioner
The Resident features a skilled nurse advocate The Fox hospital drama’s first season highlighted some real problems in the U.S. health care system, including corruption and harmful errors. But the show also...Read More »
Saving us from ourselves
Washington Post report on nursing in Covid era offers unusually deep look at profession A long April 2020 piece in the Post had information from a diverse group of nurses. Of course,...Read More »
Physical taxation without representation
New York City settles benefits case about whether nursing is “physically taxing” The New York Daily News reported that the City had agreed to pay almost $21 million to settle claims that...Read More »
Nevertheless, they persisted
More strong nursing in season 6 of the BBC’s Call the Midwife The sixth season of the BBC’s Call the Midwife, from 2017, featured more portrayals of expert nurse midwives saving lives and improving...Read More »
Making the hospital look bad
April 2020 pieces highlight U.S. nurses advocating for safer practices despite efforts to silence them. Buzzfeed reported that a California hospital had suspended 10 nurses for refusing to care for Covid-19 patients without the N95 masks the physicians got. The nurses later got the masks. And the New York Times …Read More »
Truth denounces racism
The Code of Ethics calls nurses to action The Truth About Nursing denounces the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and the many other persons of color who have died as a...Read More »
Young Americans
A May 2017 report addressed how “napping pods” can ease the effects of sleep deprivation on high school students. And an August 2017 piece described research finding that many postpartum nurses are ill-prepared to educate new mothers about risks to their health. Both reports show how nursing research can improve …Read More »
We are not heroes
An April 2020 CBS News piece reported that National Nurses United had held a protest in front of the White House about the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE). The union argues that the CDC has weakened its standards for PPE, that OSHA has likewise failed to act, and that …Read More »
Don’t show up, don’t come out
In April 2020, U.S. nurses appeared in the media to tell the public why Covid-19 must be taken seriously and managed with social distancing measures. An anonymous California nurse did that forcefully in an installment of the Guardian’s “ER Diaries” series, explaining that Covid patients were pushing his hospital to …Read More »
Gotta keep ‘em from killing people
Nurses show skill and some authority in early seasons of Chicago Med The first two seasons of the NBC hospital drama (2015-2017) focus on physician characters who generally direct clinical care. But...Read More »
Who could resist being a “rape-kit nurse”?
One Times opinion piece ably explains the need for more sexual assault forensic nurses. Another looks at barriers to men entering nursing. But both items have clickbait headlines that reinforce stereotypes and call into question why anyone would become a nurse.Read More »
Life during wartime
ICU nurse tells New York Times readers what it’s like to care for Covid-19 patients In a strong opinion piece, Simone Hannah-Clark took readers inside the day of a New York City ICU nurse....Read More »
Nursing Now!
The Pakistan website Geo reports that the nation’s President declared 2019 to be “the year of nursing.” He spoke at the Islamabad launch of the “Nursing Now” campaign, a project of the World Health Organization and the International Council of nurses that aims to advance nursing across the globe.Read More »
A huge team effort
Jimmy Kimmel thanks nurses and others who saved his son A May 2017 episode of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live featured a long account of how the host’s newborn had survived his first...Read More »
Selfless
New York Post: Nurse at hospital using trash bags as PPE dies of Covid-19 A powerful March 2020 piece in the Post reported that Mount Sinai West nurse manager Kious Kelly had died of Covid-19....Read More »
Hotel Artemis (2018)
The dystopian 2018 thriller imagines a secret, high-tech L.A. hospital for criminals, run by a tough and expert nurse, creatively named The Nurse. But not even Jodie Foster can save the character from the movie’s half-baked, formulaic execution.Read More »

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