Check out Britt’s OpEd on Medium: I’m A Nurse. Here’s Why I’m Not Accepting Gifts for National Nurses Week This Year.
Listen to Britt’s radio interview with Diana Mason on HealthCetera from May 2019:
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Mission
With unique skills and knowledge, nurses work in diverse technical roles and have valuable input to offer. The American public deserves to hear more from them.
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Our Voice
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Resources
Check out some of the latest news and resources relevant to nurses and healthcare, and see where we’re having an impact.
Nurses are the largest segment of the healthcare workforce, on the frontlines of healthcare delivery and consistently voted the most trusted profession. Yet, the Woodhull Study, both in 1998 and again in 2018, showed that nurses are essentially absent from the conversation in the media about healthcare. This needs to change.
Nurses are diverse highly skilled professionals who work in increasingly dangerous environments in order to assist their fellow humans, often in their greatest time of need. Their stories, wisdom and unique insights are an invaluable asset in finding a way forward to a better state of healthcare.
RN in DC advocates for their voices to be heard, and for the basic needs and rights of nurses to be able to work in a safe environment in which they can effectively do their job, working to their fullest potential and to the height of their practice.
Check out Our Voice: Nurses and follow us on Instagram to see the stories of diverse nursing professionals across the country. Here you can catch a glimpse of the variety of skills and insights nurses have to offer. The goal is to increase awareness about the reality of nursing as a profession and make stories accessible to amplify the voice of nurses and all they contribute to both the world of healthcare and society.
Our healthcare system must improve. Nurses can help us get there. It's time to listen to what they have to say.
Wed. May 8, 2019: on WIOX Radio
Brittany DiNatale (RNinDC) is interviewed on the radio program HealthCetera with health policy expert and leader Diana Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN and Senior Policy Service Professor for the Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement at George Washington University School of Nursing
The Woodhull Study Revisited: Twenty Year of Nurses in Health News
“We are 4 million nurses strong, and quoted in only 2% of healthcare articles…”
When Healers Get Hurt, Proto Magazine, Massachusetts General Hospital - Jan 2019
“One in four nurses has been physically assaulted on the job, and about half have been physically or verbally threatened, according to the American Nurses Association” - Linda Keslar
Penn Nursing Study Links Nurse Work Environments and Outcomes - Mar 2019
"Our quantitative synthesis of the results of many studies revealed that better work environments were associated with lower odds of negative outcomes ranging from patient and nurse job dissatisfaction to patient mortality." - Eileen Lake, PhD, MSN, FAAN, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
A conversation about the ethics of staffing - American Nurse Today - Apr 2016
“We have the data. We know we put patients at risk if we do not staff according to the data. The ethical conversation is over.” - Leah Curtin, RN, ScD, FAAN