In October 2020 VICE reported that after a Korean health union complained, YG Entertainment agreed to remove several images in the video for BLACKPINK’s “Lovesick Girls” in which group member Jennie had appeared in a quasi-naughty nurse outfit. The images could have been worse, but as the union rightly noted, sexual abuse remains a serious problem for modern nurses.
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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 a dentist and then a biologist. Last year the Truth, joined by many nurses, urged NIH to appoint a nurse as interim director. In any case, we congratulate Dr. Zenk on her appointment.
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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 Ratched give viewers a sense that nurses are anything more than disturbed clinical abusers?
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 Congress and the White House have not mandated the production of enough PPE or testing supplies.
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The key to saving more Covid-19 patients? Offload the clerical work. In the Covid-19 crisis, much has been said about the need for equipment like ventilators and PPE. But we also have…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Grey’s Anatomy is a little bit sorry about that “skanky syph nurse” thing In the ABC show’s 14th season, Nurse Olivia returned with some verbal payback for surgeon Alex Karev. But the…
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On Grey’s Anatomy, only a few handmaidens can hope to reach battle-axe status Nurses in the show’s 13th season were mostly meek servants taking physician orders, when they appeared at all. One…
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More physician nursing in season 12 of Grey’s Anatomy The season was especially physician-centric, with surgeons doing everything that mattered in the hospital: triaging, diagnosing, treating, monitoring, intervening, advocating, educating. Nurses were…
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Nurses remain silent and submissive on 15th straight season of Grey’s Anatomy The ABC drama continued to offer a vision of hospital care in which surgeons did everything that mattered, at one…
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