@doctorcmk
Dean of Nursing & former Provost, Rush University, Chicago. Children's Health Focus. Prof Emeritus UCSF & UVA. Into science, horses, dogs, irish lit, gardens that are really wilderness unleashed, trees to talk with. Noli Timere
#ThePitt star and Episode 6 director Noah Wyle defends nursing in an emotional interview with TVLine:
“I cannot tell you how disappointed I was to hear recently that that profession was stripped of its professional status… I think that is f---ing insane.”
A call to watch not just the episode but this section of the interview too..
Reposting cause its still the truth especially in Minneapolis!
Comment for the Year
The @rushmedical.bsky.social University 2025 Commencement Speaker and Pulitzer Prize winning author latest book... should be a great read from a master storyteller & writer @eugenerobinson.bsky.social and graced with art & photos from his talented wife Avis.
FOR all those Nurses out there working the Christmas Eve & night shift...especially @rushmedical.bsky.social . SANTA sees you!! www.noradsanta.org/en/map and he knows you are the consummate Professional!
www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA... NURSES TAKE ACTION - ASK your Senators to support Sen J Merkley Letter to DOE to show support for nursing as a “professional degree.” Please ask your federal policymakers to sign onto this letter by COB Tuesday, December 9, 2025.
Salaries in academia run below other settings. If this provision goes thru we will have LESS nurse practitioners, midwives, nurse scientist. I hope NURSES across the USA remember this action at the midterm voting season. Before then CALL/EMAIL your REP/Senator today, this can still be changed.
Cutting grad RN out of Fed Loans Ellen Keast, Press Sec for DOE said "Previously, all graduate students could borrow up to the cost of attendance, which led institutions to hike up the cost of graduate programs..." UNTRUE & UNINFORMED 90% of tuition pays staff & faculty, most programs making 1%
This is happening now
Department of Education being dismantled
Children, Students, and Teachers will suffer
Did you know also
Dept. Of Education said Nursing is not a "professional career "
Why to exclude graduate nursing programs from federal loans !
(source nurses.org)
Inside Chicago's growing resistance movement against Operation Midway Blitz: 'Small acts have huge consequences' www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/c...
NURSING Grad students read this. AACN Alarmed Over Department of Education’s Proposed Limitation of Student Loan Access for Nursing url:https://www.aacnnursing.org/news-data/all-news/article/aacn-alarmed-over-department-of-educations-proposed-limitation-of-student-loan-access-for-nursing
I can not resist..this should be a new ad for #Monteverde - the best Italian restaurant in West Loop Chicago for fresh pasta.
Posted on Halloween. How appropriate. Free because it needs to be read way beyond the usual audience. WAKE UP AMERICA www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
1 in 5 kids rely on SNAP
It's Greek to Me: Why Patient Portals Must Speak Plainly www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... . Prof. Ailey is senior faculty @rushmedical.bsky.social . Not only is common sense literacy levels good for patients but my hunch is that it would reduce follow-up failures & lawsuits!
Noli Timere
If there every was a topic keeping every Dean up at nights this would be high on the list. Time for innovation to take the lead. @rushmedical.bsky.social college of nursing we prioritize our clinical practice faculty partnerships & clinics that include students.
youtu.be/WxsQrZsqX0c?...
Here in Chicago..seems timely to rinse, play and repeat. 50 plus years ago. "If you believe in Justice, if you believe in Freedom..."
I made a promise to the women of Illinois — as governor, I will ensure your medical decisions will be your own.
Now, we continue fulfilling that promise.
Public colleges will now provide contraception and medication abortion at on-campus pharmacies and student health centers.
Full order is here: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
SCOTUS stays (i.e., pauses) Judge Young's order insofar as it vacated (and thus reinstated) NIH grant terminations.
SCOTUS left in place the rest of Judge Young's order, which means NIH can't terminate more grants in the same way.
🚨 SCOTUS just issued a decision in the NIH grant termination cases. And it's awful.
In plain English, the likely result of this is that SCOTUS just re-terminated ~900 NIH grants worth over $1.9 billion in unspent funds
This is an atrocious decision by Justice Barrett & the right wing of the Court.
Peds Psch Mental health NP & School RN's in Illinois jump for joy. Finally screening just like we do for vision & hearing. Make life easier not harder for people.
Childhood Vaccination Rates Have Dropped Again, C.D.C. Data Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/h...
Vaccination Intentions During Pregnancy and Among Parents of Young Children . The just say NO crowd nightmare. url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2836417?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=072925
