Specific media to which we refer in our Truth About Nursing Decade Awards
Media by Diana Mason, various formats, 2000-2009.
HealthStyles, a weekly WBAI (New York) radio show;
Reports and media stimulated by American Journal of Nursing, in part by garnering mainstream press coverage of important nursing research;
The Faces of Caring: Nurses at Work photo exhibit
Media by Theresa Brown --
newspaper columns and blog posts, 2008-2009.
The New York Times "Well" blog contributions;
"Perhaps Death Is Proud; More Reason to Savor Life" -- September 8, 2008;
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "Dear senators: Listen to the patients; nurses hear health-care horror stories day in and day out."
Media by Suzanne Gordon, various media, 2000-2009.
Nursing Against the Odds -- 2005;
The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered -- 2006;
"Nurse understaffing harms patients" -- May 12, 2005;
"Micromanaging healthcare" -- August 31, 2005;
"America's shortage of nurses gets no help from Hollywood" -- September 28, 2005;
"Hospitals Made Less Safe When Individuals Blamed" -- November 15, 2006;
"TV Nurses Don't Represent Reality" -- May 10, 2007.
Media by the California Nurses Association and the Massachusetts Nurses Association, various formats, 2000-2009.
California Nurses Association
"Shortage of nurses can be deadly" -- March 28, 2004
Terminator 4? -- November 10, 2004
Girlie men? Manly girls? The Governator and nursing's gender issues -- February 22, 2005;
ONA Original Nurse Activist -- May 11, 2005
"Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear!" -- August 19, 2005;
The Running Man -- November 11, 2005;
Emma Peel -- August 29, 2006;
Do Androids Dream of Being Nurses? -- September 11, 2006;
Political muscle -- October 11, 2006;
"Nurses Union Defends Cheney 'Dead By Now' Ad" -- December 10, 2007;
"Nurses offer aid to [Michael Moore movie] 'Sicko'"; June 14, 2007.
Media highlights alarming nurse survey in context of Massachusetts safe staffing bill -- July 2, 2003;
Crazy school kids insist on staying alive, Part I -- February 22, 2004;
Crazy school kids insist on staying alive, Part II -- February 24, 2004;
The Nurses' View -- March 14, 2005;
The golden ratios? -- May 25, 2006;
"Do they deserve this six-figure salary for what they do?" -- October 26, 2006;
Favourite worst nightmare -- January 19, 2007;
The Aging Nurse Project -- August 15, 2007.
Newspaper columns by Ronnie Polaneczky, Philadelphia Daily News, 2003, 2006.
"Nurses make a difference: Practitioners could ease doctor shortage" -- November 13, 2003
"MCP strike over standards a lesson for labor" -- November 17, 2003;
"Nurses are ready to work, but want fair staffing" -- November 25, 2003;
"For city controller, MCP strike's personal" -- December 11, 2003;
"Closure spurs anger toward striking nurses" -- December 19, 2003;
"Temple nurses are sounding an alarm that we all should listen to" -- September 12, 2006;
"Docs should help Temple nurses" -- September 26, 2006;
"No forced OT = no nursing shortage = no-brainer" -- October 5, 2006.
Reporting by Integrated Regional Information Networks, 2000-2009.
"MALAWI: Health worker shortage a challenge to AIDS treatment" -- November 17, 2006;
"SWAZILAND: Nurses fleeing the HIV/AIDS frontline" -- December 11, 2006;
"Iraq: Neglected nurses fight their own war" -- November 19, 2006;
"Zimbabwe: 'I am not a nurse anymore, I am a mortuary attendant'" -- December 12, 2008.
Dr. Phil McGraw, clinical psychologist and media star, for telling his audience in a November 18, 2004.
Kicking Dr. Phil's ass to the curb -- November 18, 2004;
Dr. Phil responds to nurses -- November 30, 2004;
Dr. Phil expresses appreciation for nurses and their image problems on the air, still struggles with apology and stereotypes -- December 20, 2004;
Feel Good, Inc. -- July 14, 2005.
The Today Show -- for attacks on advanced practice nurses
"Walk-in Health Care: Are Quick Clinics Worth It?" -- November 14, 2005
"The Perils Of Midwifery," September 11, 2009, NBC.
NBC's "Passions" solves nursing shortage: monkeys can do the job! -- September 12, 2003;
"Passions'" creator responds to protests about use of monkey "nurse:" "If nurses knew how much we pay BamBam per day, they'd all be putting on monkey suits" -- February 7, 2004;
The monkey business -- March 2005.
ABC News /Johns Hopkins documentaries by Terence Wrong
Hopkins, executive producer Terence Wrong, ABC, June-August 2008.
Hopkins 24/7, executive producer Terence Wrong, ABC, 2000.
Media commentary by the American Medical Association
There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We, the AMA, are controlling transmission -- September 2005;
AMA president Edward Hill's comments on a segment of NBC's "Today" Show about nurse practitioner (NP)-staffed "quick clinics" -- November 14, 2005;
Refusal even to respond to more than 3,700 letters -- December 14, 2005;
But when I became a physician, I put away nursing things -- July 8, 2006;
"Is 'Quick' Enough?" -- January 16, 2007.
"For Surgery, an Automated Helping Hand," Marc Santora, The New York Times , Jan. 18, 2005;
"Hard-wired nurse helps docs," Robert Schapiro, New York Daily News, June 17, 2005; for suggesting that robots could do the jobs of nurses.
Relational Agents Group, Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science, and Ivanhoe Newswire, for "Virtual Nurse: Always On Call," December 2009;
Agence France-Presse, "Japan plans robo-nurse in five years: govt.," March 25, 2009;
Corey Binns, "Twendy-One Nurse Robot Says Sit Up and Eat Your Jell-O," Popular Science, July 8, 2009.
ALR Technologies, especially Stan Cruitt, President, and Wendy Prabhu, President, Mercom Capital Group, for changing the name of an ALR health monitoring device from the "Electronic Nurse" to the "Compliance Reminder ALRT500," Sept. 2006 (though this latter group did immediately cease using the robot name when we objected).