NPR's take on RV

[ruby_jane]

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/04/10/709971677/when-a-nurse-is-prosecuted-for-a-fatal-medical-mistake-does-it-make-medicine-saf

I am usually a big proponent of NPR's balanced reporting. But there are so many of us who have feelings about this it seems...awkward and perhaps a touch lazy to let the ANA and one nurse who does safety research speak for all of us.

At any rate, we may learn more tomorrow.

[TriciaJ, RN]

1 hour ago, FSZ Student Nurse said:

Nothing wrong with reserving judgment. That's often a wise response. Also, by "supporting" her, I was referring to those who are defending her practice and seem to object to the current legal proceedings.

My post was in response to the complaint that it is inaccurate reporting to claim nurses are defending her. My point was that there are nurses who do publicly defend her, and nurses who take issue with her actions are doing so in a private forum. If nurses don't say something publicly, how are the journalists supposed to know what they are thinking?

It's not inaccurate; nurses are defending her. But it gives the impression that nurses are rising up en masse. Many of us are not defending her. Neither are we condemning her, although by the many posts on this forum, you'd think that we were.

Many of us just don't think, under the circumstances, that criminal charges are necessarily inappropriate. Now we wait to see what comes out in court.

[ruby_jane, BSN, RN]

On 4/13/2019 at 8:49 AM, Horseshoe said:

Was that one nurse "speaking for all of us," or was she just asked by a reporter to give her opinion about the incident?

One of the nurses works for the ANA and one works for a think tank. As a part-time writer, I can pretty much attest that yes, when the reported picked those sources, those nurses were "speaking for all of us."