Timothy Shaw, MD, of Appleton, Wisconsin, wrote a great op-ed about nurses for Nurses Week 2003. There’s never a bad time, even 23 years later, to highlight this Wisconsin physician’s astute, comprehensive,…
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Nurse of America
Remembering nursing pioneer Claire Fagin. In January 2024, U.S. nursing leader Claire Fagin died at the age of 97. Obituaries appeared in many major publications. One of the best was in the Washington Post. That one focused on Fagin’s year leading the University of Pennsylvania, but also on her key role in pushing nursing forward, through her forceful advocacy and emphasis on a stronger academic curriculum. At the Truth About Nursing, we especially appreciated her mentoring and support over the last two decades.
Jane the…Daughter of a Nurse
As Jane the Virgin ends, Xo finds her way—to nursing school!
On the final season of The CW’s popular telenovela Jane the Virgin, ending in 2019, the main character’s mother Xiomara finally decided on a career path that held promise: nursing. In general, the plotline tracing Xo’s decision-making and nursing school application process told viewers that nursing is a challenging science profession.
Do nurses need university educations?
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…
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…
Woodhull Study Revisited released
Twenty years after the initial Woodhull Study on Nursing and the Media, a reexamination of how nurses are portrayed in the news media is released Out of George Washington School of Nursing,…