My Superpower is Being a Nurse:
Nurses’ Heroism in Times of Crisis
November 13, 2020 • 12 noon – 1:00 p.m.
via Zoom • Password: 426755
Covid-19 brought nurses’ importance sharply into the public eye as never before. A look into the history of nursing shows that nurses have always stepped up in times of crisis. Florence Nightingale of course comes to mind with her work during the Crimean War, but also poet Walt Whitman, who served as a nurse during the Civil War along with abolitionist and freed slave Harriet Tubman. Learn about these and other nurses’ heroism to realize that being a nurse really is a kind of superpower.
Presented by:
Theresa Brown, PhD, BSN, RN, FAAN
Clinical Nurse, Author and New York Times Contributor
Author of the New York Times bestseller The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives and Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between
Frequent contributor to the New York Times and has written for CNN.com, The Journal of the American Medical Association, Slate.com, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
She has been interviewed on the NPR program “Fresh Air” and has appeared on “Hardball,” “20/20” and NPR’s Talk of the Nation. She speaks nationally on topics relating to nursing, health care and end of life.
To learn more about Theresa Brown, visit her website: http://www.theresabrownrn.com/
For more information please email Lori Ricard: lricard@pennstatehealth.psu.edu