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Jerky: Man in nursing fights "male spice loss" with Slim Jims! 8 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
August 2013 -- In recent months ConAgra Foods has been running video ads for its "jerky snack" Slim Jim that feature a self-identified "murse" distributing the product in a hospital waiting room to me...
Living Antisocial: Minnesota NP leads effort to care for teen runaways 8 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
January 11, 2013 -- Today Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) aired a report by Laura Yuen about sexual abuse of runaway girls that featured St. Paul nurse practitioner Laurel Edinburgh (right), who helped s...
She received far more: Nurse Martha Keochareon invites nursing students to study her own dying process 8 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
January 11, 2013 -- Today the New York Times ran a front-page story by Abby Goodnough about Martha Keochareon, a retired Massachusetts nurse who, while dying at home of pancreatic cancer, invited stud...
Minority Nurse's extensive report on the nursing image quotes Truth director 21 Jul 2013 | 09:14 pm
May 6, 2013 -- Today the magazine Minority Nurse published a long, thoughtful piece by Erica Patino called "Lights, Camera, Accuracy: Nurses in the Media." The piece relied to a significant extent on ...
Truth's hoop dreams come true! 21 Jul 2013 | 09:13 pm
Dallas Mavericks Dancers get over their bad case of loving nurses March 2013 -- This month the Truth learned that the Dancers for the former NBA champion Dallas Mavericks had decided to stop entertai...
Heroes among us: PBS's Need to Know and ABC's 20/20 highlight nurses' autonomous care for patients in crisis 21 Jul 2013 | 09:12 pm
November 3, 2012 -- Two recent U.S. television news pieces highlight nurses' skilled and autonomous care for patients in crisis. On June 22, PBS aired a 13-minute segment as part of its "Need to Know"...
The weather in my head: Washington Post and New York Times on physician anger management 21 Jul 2013 | 09:10 pm
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. Alice Walker March 16, 2013 -- This month major press entities ran pieces addressing the ...
Come with me if you want to live: Vice President Joe Biden explains how nurses differ from physicians 21 Jul 2013 | 09:08 pm
June 3, 2013 -- Today, during a speech about mental health awareness, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden spent about a minute paying tribute to nurses. That short part of his speech implicated issues inclu...
The beck and call girls: Private Practice ends as it began, with physicians in command and nurses standing by, awaiting orders 1 Jul 2013 | 09:12 am
January 22, 2013 -- Several recent episodes of ABC's Private Practice, including tonight's series finale, had a few scenes with strong, smart, articulate labor and delivery nurse Stephanie Kemp. And a...
Fixes: New York Times and the Atlantic on APRN skill and autonomy 1 Jul 2013 | 09:11 am
October 24, 2012 -- In recent months a number of commentators have issued pleas for the United States to expand the authority and scope of practice of advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), whic...
