| Sumario: | In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared 2020 to be the Year of the Nurse and Midwife (YONM) to draw attention to the critical role that these 28 million healthcare workers play in the health of communities and nations [[1]]. Today, nurses Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and Lauren Underwood (D-IL) serve in the House of Representatives, and other nurses serve in state capitols and legislatures. The study found that nurses were used as sources in only 4% of the articles in newspapers, 2% in news weeklies, and 2% in healthcare trade publications (for I Modern Healthcare i , nurses were cited in only 0.6% of stories). And the Achilles heel of too many hospitals is that they unquestioningly invest in expensive high-tech machines while tolerating inadequate nurse staffing despite evidence that nurse staffing is a powerful variable in mortality rates and complications.
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