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, Healthcare

    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...

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

    SandySummers replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

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

    SandySummers replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

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

    SandySummers replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  5. 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...

  6. 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

  7. 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....

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

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

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

    This is hilarious. Thank you

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

    SandySummers replied to NRSKarenRN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    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...

  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,...

  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...

  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?...

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

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

    Hi Kriso, Thanks for your comments. Of course I would have liked to talk for hours on the issue, but getting the media to do that is the trick... And getting them to cover nursing is an even bigger...

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

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

    Q: Come on. Even if the mass media does ignore nursing, or present it inaccurately, how can that possibly affect nursing in real life? A: It can because what people see affects what they think, and...

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

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

    Q: What's the big deal about "naughty nurse" images in the media? I mean, no one believes nurses really dress like that! A: The global media's relentless linking of sexual images to the profession of...

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

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

    October 2006 -- We hear that a fine new ¨establishment in Tempe, Arizona, one Heart Attack Grill, has been the subject of complaints by those battleaxes at the Arizona State Board of Nursing. And...

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

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

    Sorry that I disappointed you Kriso. We taped for about 20 minutes, and I can't say that all of the quotes they used were my best. But there is little I can do to get them to choose which quotes they...

  21. Lantus insulin question

    SandySummers replied to evans_c1's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    Good, I'm glad. Thank you Tweety. We work hard on

  22. Lantus insulin question

    SandySummers replied to evans_c1's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    You said that nurses can't hold drugs without an MD or parameters. That is plainly wrong--as your own care plan acknowledged. We can and must withhold drugs that are dangerous for patients--whether or...

  23. Lantus insulin question

    SandySummers replied to evans_c1's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    Nobody is going to go into DKA with a blood sugar of 20! Nursing is an ongoing professional service, where we monitor people over time and intervene as appropriate--hopefully not a once-per-shift...

  24. Lantus insulin question

    SandySummers replied to evans_c1's topic in Diabetes, Endocrine Nursing

    I beg to differ. We are ethically and legally bound to deliver the best possible care to our patients and advocate for them as we would if we were lying in the bed ourselves. We do not give...

  25. "The View" insults nursing

    SandySummers posted a topic in General Nursing

    Take Action! "The View" doesn't seem to include nursing June 16, 2003 -- Tonight's prime time episode of ABC's "The View," which consisted of a "His and Her Body Test" designed to impart basic health...