SandySummers

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1. Center For Nursing Advocacy steamed over Kelly Ripa sponge bath nursey comments

   SandySummers replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

   Good, I'm glad that you are working on the issues that drag down your ability to provide quality patient care. More nurses need to do this. But none of us operates in a vacuum. There is no one solution to the nursing shortage and no one person who ...

2. Center For Nursing Advocacy steamed over Kelly Ripa sponge bath nursey comments

   SandySummers replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

   There is not just one way to solve the nursing shortage. Everyone needs to do his part to work on the causes. When nursing is so undervalued in the public consciousness, nurses can't get the resources they need to do their work. For instance, it sou...

3. Center For Nursing Advocacy steamed over Kelly Ripa sponge bath nursey comments

   SandySummers replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

   The mass media is in the business of affecting how and what people think. To believe that people are able to disregard everything they perceive in the entertainment media because the scenarios presented aren't literally "true," or because they are lo...

4. Center For Nursing Advocacy steamed over Kelly Ripa sponge bath nursey comments

   SandySummers replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

   The global media's relentless linking of sexual images to the profession of nursing reinforces long-standing stereotypes. Even though those images are often "jokes" or "fantasies," the stereotypes they promote discourage practicing and potential nurs...

5. The Nobel Prize in Nursing

   SandySummers replied to SandySummers's topic in General Nursing

   That would take some serious cash. Cash and nursing aren't exactly synonymous. We're going to float the idea to a couple foundations. But don't hold your breath.

6. Heart Attack Grill (20/20 ABC show)

   SandySummers replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

   First of all, the article wrongly quoted me as saying "Move these sexual fantasies to other professions". I did not, and would not say that and I have written to the journalist to ask her to fix it. But there's only so much I can do to make that ha...

7. The Nobel Prize in Nursing

   SandySummers replied to SandySummers's topic in General Nursing

   Of course, all nurses deserve more public credit for our work than we currently get, which is why we are working to improve public understanding of nursing through improving the accuracy of nursing's media portrayals. If our leaders get credit throug...

8. The Nobel Prize in Nursing

   SandySummers replied to SandySummers's topic in General Nursing

   Timothy, the lamp is a strong symbol of 24/7 care. I worked for 3 years in Cambodia, and the hospitals there are essentially staffed from 8am-11am and then patients are pretty much on their own during the other hours. Round the clock surveillance sav...

9. The Nobel Prize in Nursing

   SandySummers replied to SandySummers's topic in General Nursing

   Timothy, How sad it is that you can't appreciate nursing's leaders. Our nursing researchers and innovators make it possible for bedside nurses to change and improve our care so our patients will have better outcomes. For instance, if we had no nurse ...

10. Heart Attack Grill (20/20 ABC show)

    SandySummers replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

    This is hilarious. Thank you EmerNurse.

11. Do physicians deserve credit for the work nurses do?

    SandySummers replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism

    Infirmières Sans Frontières December 3, 2006 -- Recently, the Nobel Prize-winning Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) launched a U.S. tour of an exhibit highlighting the global aid group's vital work in conflict zones. "A Refugee...

12. The Nobel Prize in Nursing

    SandySummers posted a topic in General Nursing

    The Nobel Prize in Nursing December 8, 2006 -- Today The Baltimore Sun published "Nurses' achievements merit international recognition," an op-ed by Columbia University nursing professor Kristine Gebbie and Center for Nursing Advocacy executive dire...

13. Heart Attack Grill (20/20 ABC show)

    SandySummers replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

    The reason the "most trusted" poll results don't do too much for me is that this public view often goes hand in hand with the prevailing vision of nurses as devoted, angelic handmaidens. Of course, it's possible that a particular member of the public...

14. Heart Attack Grill (20/20 ABC show)

    SandySummers replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

    That's the way to support your profession! Sure, one result of our campaign may have been that the grill owner has had an increase in business. But our intended goal of getting people to think and talk about negative nursing images has been achieved....

15. Heart Attack Grill (20/20 ABC show)

    SandySummers replied to General E. Speaking, RN's topic in General Nursing

    http://www.nursingadvocacy.org/faq/most_trusted.html Q: Why aren't you more excited that public opinion polls often put nurses at the top of the list of "most trusted" and "most ethical" professions? A: Of course, there's nothing inherently bad about...