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Posted on June 29, 2017December 27, 2019 by Sandy and Harry Summers

Acting Surgeon General Sylvia Trent-Adams, RN, PhD June 29, 2017 – With today’s announcement that Indiana health commissioner Jerome Adams, MD, has been nominated to be U.S. Surgeon General, it appears that…

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Posted on October 16, 2016December 27, 2019 by Sandy and Harry Summers

Sandy Summers urges Hopkins Nursing graduates to save world July 22, 2016 – Today Truth About Nursing director Sandy Summers delivered the graduation speech to recipients of Nursing degrees at Johns Hopkins…

“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)
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 Just as important as physicians 2017 U.K. picture book gives...Read More »
Inventing justice
UMass nursing professor promotes health innovation—and nursing A Forbes piece by Stephen Key spotlights three award-winning female inventors, including University of Massachusetts nursing professor Rachel Walker. Walker has created impressive inventions for...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 »
She’s too good for you
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...Read More »
This is scut
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...Read More »
Wondering how long
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...Read More »
A quiet place
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...Read More »
Now it’s a biologist
The dentist who was interim director of the National Institute of Nursing Research is moving on. But now a biologist has been appointed to the position. On November 14, 2019, the acting...Read More »
Don’t let this be the top search result for “Nightingale”
New Google / Ascension project has already breached nursing’s data security According to news sources, Google has gotten access to the identified health data of some 50 million patients, without their knowledge,...Read More »
She bad
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...Read More »
A new protocol
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....Read More »
My beautiful dark twisted fantasy
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...Read More »
Heaven knows we’re Miseryable now
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...Read More »
Business Insider gives worldwide coverage to Truth’s campaign for nurse to lead NINR
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...Read More »
Dentist assumes NINR interim director post
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...Read More »
The currency of care
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...Read More »
Truth Hearts Midwife
Fall 2019 TV preview: All your favorites, plus the return of Ratched Call the Midwife will still offer a strong portrayal of nursing. Chicago Med and The Resident will show some nursing...Read More »
Sorry
Two nurses write strong New York Times opinion pieces on end-of-life care The nurses advocated for better practices to allow natural deaths. Theresa Brown argued for better reimbursement for end-of-life care discussions...Read More »
Anyone will do
U.S. nursing research institute appoints dentist as interim director The National Institute for Nursing Research, which disburses federal grants, recently announced that its interim director would be…a dentist. But non-nurses are non-qualified...Read More »
The world and his wife
U.K. media on crediting “female nurse and embryologist” Jean Purdy for IVF Archival letters show in vitro fertilization pioneer Robert Edwards pushing without success for recognition of his “equal” partner Jean Purdy...Read More »
What the heart wants
NBC’s Heartbeat featured expert physicians, with a nurse as skilled handmaiden The 2016 NBC show Heartbeat focused on a female cardiac surgeon and other physicians. It did have a recurring nurse character,...Read More »
Professional
New York Times Crossword shows RNs some respect Today the prominent puzzle sought the answer “RNS” with the clue “Pro caregivers, for short.” That at least suggests that nurses are experts with...Read More »
Tiempos de Amor
The Netflix show Morocco: Love in Times of War offers only a limited look at Spanish wartime nursing in the 1920s. But the Spanish series, released in the U.S. in 2018, does...Read More »
These are the pros
AARP re-affirms support for NPs after strong NP advocacy In March 2019, the AARP Bulletin ran a piece with advice from a variety of “pros.” The piece relied on several physicians, but...Read More »

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