2024
Opinion: Brian Thompson’s Shooting and Why People Are So Angry
December 2024 // Cancer Nursing Today
Caring Comes First: Post-Election Reflections on the Power of Empathy
November 2024 // Cancer Nursing Today
Opinion: Voting for Health Care
October 2024 // Cancer Nursing Today
Opinion: How Structural Racism Shaped the American Health Care System
September 2024 // Cancer Nursing Today
Opinion: Private Equity and the Corruption of Care
July 2024 // Cancer Nursing Today
Who Broke American Health Care
June 2024 // Cancer Nursing Today
All the Ways Nurses Make the World
May 2024 // American Journal of Nursing
To Really Honor Nurses, Pay them More
May 2024 // Cancer Nursing Today
Can the Hospital Nursing Workforce Bounce Back After COVID?
April 2024 // Cancer Nursing Today
Why Nursing Diagnoses Need to Go
March 2024 // Cancer Nursing Today
Be Prepared: How Nursing Education Can Do Better
February 2024 // Cancer Nursing Today
The Black Angels of Sea View
February 2024 // American Journal of Nursing
Working Sick Does Not Work for Patients or Nurses
January 2024 // Cancer Nursing Today
2023
Revisiting Florence Nightingale: Racism in American Nursing
December 2024 // Cancer Nursing Today
Revisiting Florence Nightingale
December 2024 // Cancer Nursing Today
Opinion: Self-Care Isn’t the Cure to Burnout, Managerial Support Is
November 2023 // Cancer Nursing Today
A Spoonful of Humility Makes the Medicine Go Down
October 2023 // Cancer Nursing Today
The Invisibility of Women
October 2023 // American Journal of Nursing
Assault on the Job is not ‘Part of the Job’ for Nurses
September 2023 // Cancer Nursing Today
Theresa Brown, RN, Discusses Nurse-Focused Workplace Violence in Health Care
August 2023 // Cancer Nursing Today
Compassion Fatigue, Moral Distress, and Burnout: What Nurses Should Know
August 2023 // Cancer Nursing Today
Opinion: Don’t Worry, Nurses Won’t Be Replaced Any Time Soon
June 2023 // Cancer Nursing Today
The Cost of Living While Human
May 2023 // American Journal of Nursing
Why Black Americans ‘Live Sicker and Die Quicker’
February 2023 // American Journal of Nursing
2022
The Trauma and Grief of Frontline Clinicians
November 2022 // American Journal of Nursing
In Patients Come Second, Health Care Workers Come First
June 2022 // American Journal of Nursing
What I’m Reading: The Beauty in Breaking and the Power to Heal
February 2022 // American Journal of Nursing
2021
What I’m Reading: Aroused - A Rousing Look at Hormones
October 2021 // American Journal of Nursing
Opinion | Vaccinate all health care workers now
July 26, 2021 // CNN.com
What I'm Reading: COVID-19 and Our National 'Moral Imperative'
May 2021 // American Journal of Nursing
Opinion | Covid-19 is ‘Probably Going to End My Career’
February 25, 2021 // The New York Times
What I’m Reading: The ‘Grueling Process’ of Emancipation
February 2021 // American Journal of Nursing
2020
What I'm Reading: How Marketing Practices Undermine Nursing
November 2020 // American Journal of Nursing
Define Nurse (In Three Words of Less)
July 7, 2020 // American Nurse
What I'm Reading: Confronting Medical Error
June 2020 // American Journal of Nursing
No More "Just a Nurse"
May 28, 2020 // American Nurse
Opinion | I Accept Death, I Hope Doctors and Nurses Will, Too
May 19, 2020 // The New York Times
Covid-19, the Literature of Illness
May 7, 2020 // MedHumChat
Opinion | The Reason Hospitals Won't Let Doctors and Nurses Speak Out
April 21, 2020 // The New York Times
New Nursing needed for COVID-19: Making “Old Nursing” history
April 14, 2020 // American Nurse
What I’m Reading: Kindly Women and Practically Trained Subordinates
April 2020 // American Journal of Nursing
Opinion | A Simple Plan to Help Our Hospitals
March 25, 2020 // The New York Times
From the Source: The Nurse Worried for Her Peers on the Front Lines
April 16, 2020 // Public Source
What My Daughter Fears for Me
March 20, 2020 // CNN.com
Opinion | Who Will Care for Society’s Forgotten?
February 28, 2020 // The New York Times
Take Care of Yourself
January 21, 2020 // American Nurse
What AI Reading of Mammograms Could Do for Women
January 6, 2020 // CNN.com
2019
What I’m Reading: What She Leaves Behind
December 2019 // American Journal of Nursing
Opinion | The Medical System is One Giant Workaround
September 5, 2019 // The New York Times
Opinion | Do more with less? Nurse says that’s nonsense
June 20, 2019 // CNN.com
What I’m Reading: How We Fail the Dying
June 2019 // American Journal of Nursing
Opinion | Nurse: An abortion is not an execution, Mr. President
April 30, 2019 // CNN.com
Opinion | How to Make Doctors Think About Death
April 27, 2019 // The New York Times
No Quick Fix for the Culture of Prescribing that Drives Medication Overload
April 25, 2019 // The Health Care Blog
What I’m Reading: The Language of Kindness
February 2019 // American Journal of Nursing
2018
What I’m Reading: Fixing America’s Health Care System
November 2018 // American Journal of Nursing
Opinion | Decent Men Don’t Do These Things
September 24, 2018 // The New York Times
Opinion | How to Quantify a Nurse’s ‘Gut Feelings’
August 9, 2018 // The New York Times
What I’m Reading: An Unflinching Exploration of Trauma and Obesity
June 2018 // American Journal of Nursing
I felt her arms around me, firm and strong. 'This is treatable,' she said, soothing my fear. 'They can cure this'
March 13, 2018 // Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
2017
What I’m Reading: The Gaming of U.S. Health Care
December 2017 // American Journal of Nursing
Opinion | Breast Cancer Is Serious. Pink Is Not.
October 28, 2017 // The New York Times
What I’m Reading: The Power of Conversation
August 2017 // American Journal of Nursing
Opinion | The Real Problem With The Health Care Bill
May 4, 2017 // The New York Times
Abortion and a woman’s centrality
February 26, 2017 // Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
How Mindfulness Can be an Act of Self Care of Nurses
February 13, 2017 // Nightingale
2016
What I’m Reading: To Make Everything Possible, Lean In
May 2016 // American Journal of Nursing
Lightening Nurses’ Loads
May 10, 2016 // Slate
2015
Opinion | When Hospital Paperwork Crowds Out Hospital Care
December 19, 2015 // The New York Times
What I’m Reading: At the End of Life, Knowing What's Vital
November 2015 // American Journal of Nursing
Opinion | Finding the Meaning of Death in a Concert Hall
October 3, 2015 // The New York Times
Not “Just a Nurse”
September 18, 2015 // Slate
Miss Colorado Started a Needed Conversation About Nurses
September 15, 2015 // Time
Opinion | Choosing How We Die
July 24, 2015 // The New York Times
What I’m Reading: Being Mortal Asks for Bold Reimagining
April 2015 // American Journal of Nursing
Why I Support the National Nurse Act of 2015
April 29, 2015 // Center for Health Media
Is Obamacare about controlling our lives?
January 26, 2015 // CNN.com
Opinion | When Prisoners Are Patients
January 3, 2015 // The New York Times
2008 - 2014
The Half Wall
December 17, 2014 // Journal of the American Medical Association
What I’m Reading: When Business and Government Put Profits Before Patients
December 2014 // American Journal of Nursing
Opinion | Ebola will elevate respect for nurses the Meaning of Death in a Concert Hall
October 23, 2014 // The New York Times
What I’m Reading: Imagining Those Five Days at Memorial
September 2014 // American Journal of Nursing
Opinion | What ‘Nurse Jackie’ Gets Right About the E.R.
June 28, 2014 // The New York Times
Opinion | Providing the Balm of Truth
April 12, 2014 // The New York Times
Opinion | Lost in Clinical Translation
February 8, 2014 // The New York Times
Opinion | Out of Network, Out of Luck
October 12, 2013 // The New York Times
Opinion | When No One Is on Call
October 17, 2013 // The New York Times
Opinion | Healing the Hospital Hierarchy
March 16, 2013 // The New York Times
Opinion | When the Patient Knows Best
January 19, 2013 // The New York Times
Opinion | Saving Your Own Skin
October 27, 2012 // The New York Times
Opinion | A Hollywood Movie Takes on Cancer
October 5, 2012 // The New York Times
Opinion | The Human Cost of the Second Amendment
September 26, 2012 // The New York Times
Opinion | Don’t Get Sick in July
July 14, 2012 // The New York Times
Opinion | Money or Your Life
June 24, 2012 // The New York Times
Opinion | Feeling Strain When Violent Patients Need Care
January 30, 2012 // The New York Times
Opinion | Hospital care easier, faster with standing orders
January 5, 2011 // CNN.com
Opinion | A dying patient is not a battlefield
August 31, 2010 // CNN.com
Opinion | Stopping to Smile on the Way to Sadness
June 8, 2010 // The New York Times
Opinion | From Rage to Relief: View From a Nurse’s Station
May 29, 2010 // The New York Times
Opinion | When Nursing is a Team Sport
April 14, 2010 // The New York Times
A Nurse’s Shift
January - February 2010 // The University of Chicago Magazine
Opinion | Perhaps Death Is Proud; More Reason to Savor Life
September 8, 2008 // The New York Times