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  • Josephine Ensign (1960 – )

    Originally posted on NurseManifest: Inspiration for Activism!  Worked for three decades as a family nurse practitioner providing primary health care to homeless adolescents and adults in large urban areas on both coasts of the U.S. Focuses her work on increasing understanding of the lives of marginalized populations, and developing ways to increase their access to… Read more

  • Firing My Doctor

          More Voices: Worry  Firing My Doctor Marianna Crane 31 May 2018   I didn’t decide to “fire” my doctor on the spot. During my last appointment with her, I’d filled Dr. Green in on the details of my mastectomy. I happily reported that the surgeon had declared me “cured”–the tumor’s margins were… Read more

  • Are Nurses Losing Ground? Part 2

    In my last post I discussed the Woodhull Study that was published in 1998, which showed nurses were quoted in the media (newspapers) 4% of the time. The 2017 replication of study showed a drop to 2%. Click here to view a video discussing the study, findings, limitations, and input from a panel of journalists/media… Read more

  • Are Nurses Losing Ground?

    I wrote the following blog on February 10, 2013. I can’t believe I was the only one. In my last post I referenced The Truth About Nursing blog in which we are asked to write to two journalists who did not mention nurses in their article in Businessweek about Hillary Clinton’s hospitalization. The story read… Read more

  • Nurses Give Hope Through Stories

      “Nurses give hope through their stories.” I heard this from Lee Woodruff who spoke about her role as caregiver for her husband. A roadside bomb in Iraq had wounded Bob Woodruff, a news reporter. His wife spoke on the last day of the Beryl Conference that I attended in Chicago two weeks ago. Ms.… Read more

  • The Perks of Serving on the Board

      I have served on the Family Patient Advisory Council at my local hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina since it’s inception a little over two years ago. I became the first Chair and now I am the Senior Chair. This last week, the hospital funded my travel to Chicago to attend the Patient Experience Conference… Read more