The New York Times on the life of nurse Eddie Bernice Johnson In January 2024, the New York Times had a helpful obituary for Johnson, who had died at 89. Johnson was the first nurse…
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Nurses Issue Call for Global Resistance to Trump Administration’s Attack on Public Health
As nurses and their supporters, we urge the public to make immediate and sustained efforts to resist the Trump Administration’s agenda to destroy global health. We have devoted our professional lives to…
Doc McStuffins
Each episode of Doc McStuffins sends a basic health message, usually in a narrow, physician-centric “diagnosis and treatment” framework. But wait! One of the dolls, Hallie the Hippo, is “Doc’s nurse.” At different points the Hallie character reflects most of the major nursing stereotypes, from low-skilled handmaiden to motherly angel to crusty battle-axe. Her main job often seems to be fetching the Big Book of Boo-Boos for Doc. . The show’s creator has noted that she originally saw the Hallie character as a “fumbling, bumbling mess,”