Television discussion

Are Nurse Jackie and HawthoRNE helping or harming nursing?

Nurse Jackie and HawthoRNe have created quite a stir in the nursing community, causing excitement about nurses being featured as lead characters on prime time television, but also concern about whether the character profiles and story lines will have a positive or negative impact on the public's understanding of who nurses are and what they do.

Center for Nursing Advocacy board members have been weighing in, and we would like to open a discussion with all of you on what has already become a source of controversy among nursing professionals. Suzanne Gordon, internationally known journalist, advocate for nurses, and a member of our Board of Directors, wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe on the new shows, and Board chair Mary Dominiak was quoted in a Chicago Sun-Times article.

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We look forward to the discussion!