European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition opinion pag6 13 nurses role bigger than Small screen scene by Suzanne Gordon its National nurses but on the nations two most popular to Hospi Tal nurses barely Greys Anatomy focuses on a surgical yet nurses have been Al most completely excised from the operate i Groom and on House a show that focuses on a group of Crackerjack diagnosticians solving the mystery of the latest medical malady its As though Hollywood producers have All but rooted out nurses from the on the first season of Greys Anat its creators promoted the tired old myth that nurses read women go into the profession to Snag a in one of the seasons last a nurse hooked up with one of the interns and gave him in the second season after the Cen Ter for nursing advocacy a we based Media watchdog group launched a pro test against the series nurses on the show did stage a strike against poor work ing in its three seasons on the Greys Anatomy has hardly Ever shown nurses doing the work they would actually do on a surgical service in a teaching that involves working to set up the operating making sure the sur Geon Doest remove the wrong ensuring the patient int electrocuted on the operating monitoring the patients recovery in the Post anaesthesia unit and checking that the patient Doest develop or die of internal bleeding or some other pos surgical on doctors administer and Monitor All the Check All the vital signs and Alert one another if a patients condition but in real doctors cant make their medical diagnoses unless nurses Are involved in interpreting and prioritizing the one of the bes kept secrets of the modern Hospital is that nurses will often Tell a doctor particularly a Doc Tori training whats wrong with the advise about what medication to prescribe and Alert doctors to prescribing several recent studies published in such As the journal of the Amer ican medical association Jama and the new England journal of have documented links Between More nursing care and fewer patient deaths and urinary tract infections and the Way television portrays nurses is critical to our ability to retain and recruit the rns we yet each millions of Young people who might be interested in a career in nursing Are made to believe that doctors Are the Only ones who count in health in the Middle of the worst nursing in its three seasons on the Greys Anatomy has hardly Ever shown nurses doing the work they would actually do on a surgical service in a teaching from left to Are cast members James Pickens Chandra Justin Katherine Sandra Isaiah Ellen Pompeo and Patrick shortage in our nations ing to the Bureau of labor statistics and Well be Short by about nurses by 2020 if things dont change quickly Hollywood tells us that Hospi tals Are a doctor Only affair and that patients can recover without any nursing care we  let Hollywood Lull us into thinking that nurses do next to that is an insult to the million nurses in Suzanne Gordon is a journalist and author of nursing against the Odds How health care Media stereotypes and medical hubris undermine nurses and patient its of for to admit foreign policy weaknesses Washington will the United states retain its global prestige and influence by the Middle of the 21st Cen Tury that was the key ques Tion in Many of my discussions last week with several of this John Bersia cites most capable although not a single one currently holds Public some almost surely will step it cannot happen fast that the arrival of a new group of particularly in the for Eig policy americas sole superpower status has no claim to but it will last for a Shorter or longer time depending on How the United states handles three Seri global challenges Dur ing the next decade human rights and climate the Effort must Start with last i was amused to hear retired James formerly natos supreme Allied share an increasingly heard observation that Washington routinely tells other coun tries what they whereas China gives them what they i am not advocating that the United states discard its values simply to win global but this country is Long overdue for a hard look at the Way it con ducts itself to those who have grown tired of hearing about that Scourge and embrace the misguided notion that 11 was an i Wake you have been spared Many addition Al nightmares Only because of worldwide the disruption of terrorist net works and a hefty amount of if we fail to prepare for the under stand that All terrorism is expanded cation about approach solutions and boost our i Nova Riveness in the Glo bal Battle for minds and terrorists will grow in the United states and its allies should de Vise a measurable Way of the extent possible the causes of including statelessness and re human although i have would rather see an american president commit troops to Stop genocide than intervene with scant evidence against a nation that supposedly has weapons of mass democratic i would rather see an american president commit troops to Stop genocide than intervene with scant evidence against a nation that supposedly has weapons of mass de my definition of human rights goes consider ably beyond the political for sex i cannot accept that the prom ise of globalization will continue to elude most the United states through Edu investment and Trade must vigorous hand to the never questioned this country commitment to its extend a More w u1c founding reality often deviates two thirds of the worlds population that from the the United states has benefited Little or not at All from re should elevate human rights permanently cent economic to a top priority and shy away from non climate if America does not help fix the accelerating problems in that global Security and human rights As Well As prominence will whether the danger Ema nates from Cooling or some thing no one can deny the planets As i Learned from personal experience during Florida 200year Hurricane phenomenon in it is time for the naysayers to re tire and for including this to join More aggressively in find ing we have an obligation to mitigate Carbo dioxide emissions in a sub Stantial boost and develop More renewable Energy sources such As wind nuclear in the americans beheld a Post cold War world filled with the Prospect of peace and climate change was a speculative now we know the United states has at most another decade to strengthen its Posi Tion or risk compromising its John Bersia is an Orlando Sentinel prickly City by Scott Stantis