New film highlights one nurse’s struggle with understaffing Petra Volpe’s powerful 2025 drama The Late Shift follows a hospital nurse juggling the physical and psychological needs of 13 patients on one intense shift. Viewers…
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Unprofessional
Administration plans to cut federal loans for nursing education In November 2025, the Trump Administration proposed to limit loans for graduate students in nursing and other predominantly female fields by excluding them…
Careers of the future
The Philadelphia Inquirer on nursing and the world of STEM A good April 2024 piece in the Inquirer highlighted the efforts of two local nursing professors to increase the U.S. government’s recognition of nursing as a STEM…
Submit nominations for the 2022 Truth About Nursing media awards!
These annual awards spotlight the best and worst of media for nursing We are now accepting nominations for the Truth About Nursing awards, which recognize the most notable – best and worst…
Could charting software be improved?
We started meeting with Epic in January 2022 – please weigh in!
Give nurses secretaries
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…
You’re going to see a difference
Reuters on study linking better nursing with better patient outcomes A 2016 Reuters item highlighted key findings of a new study showing that a better nursing environment means better patient outcomes. Ironically,…
Well-staffed and empowered nurses save more lives on med-surg floors
New Penn study shows dramatically higher CPR survival rates December 2015 — The Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (University of Pennsylvania) released a study this month finding that for each…