Columnist for The Week is sure they do not Matthew Walther’s opinion piece argues lightheartedly that despite the malign claims of the “educational-industrial complex,” nurses do not actually need university degrees. After…
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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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On NPR’s “The Call-In,” nursing is just as hard as low-skilled tending can be! On Weekend Edition Sunday, several direct care nurses addressed the state of nursing. Unfortunately, what came across was mostly the suffering…
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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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Recipient of the Best Kids’ Book for Nursing 2010-2019 Award 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…
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Recipient of a Recipient of a Best Coverage of Nurse Innovators 2010-2019 Award UMass nursing professor promotes health innovation—and nursing A Forbes piece by Stephen Key spotlights three award-winning female inventors, including…
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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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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…
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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,…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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