Nurses' Voices in Media: Strategies for Chief Nursing Officers.

Nurses comprise the largest group of health professionals yet are underrepresented in health news media, depriving the public of important perspectives on health and healthcare and undermining the public's perceptions of nurses as experts. The George Washington University School of Nursing's Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement partnered with the American Organization for Nursing Leadership to invite a small group of chief nursing officers to participate in a workshop aimed at building an organization-specific strategy for sharing nurses' expertise with the public through media engagement. Participants completed a preworkshop survey, participated in two 4-hour workshops to explore the factors that contribute to nurses' invisibility as media sources, and developed a strategic plan for ensuring that their healthcare organizations are able to recognize and share their nurses' expertise with media.

"The History of Chinese Medicine Really Is Very Detailed Regarding Pandemics": A Qualitative Analysis of Evidence-Based Practice and the Use of Chinese Herbal Medicine by Licensed Acupuncturists During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States.

The objective of this qualitative study was to understand how licensed acupuncturists determined treatment strategies for patients with symptoms likely related to COVID-19 using Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) and the impact of the pandemic upon their clinical practice. A qualitative instrument was developed with questions aligned with when participants started treating patients with symptoms likely related to COVID-19 and the availability of information related to the use of CHM for COVID-19. Interviews took place between March 8 and May 28, 2021, and were transcribed verbatim by a professional transcription service.

Media competencies for nurses: A Delphi study.

Background: Media raises awareness of important health issues, provides guidance to promote health, and shapes health policies. However, nurses are poorly represented in media.

Purpose: To propose competencies that can be used to advance nurses' knowledge and skills in using media to advance health.

Journalists' Experiences with Using Nurses as Sources in Health News Stories.

Unlabelled: : Purpose: In a 2018 replication of a 1997 study, the Woodhull Study on Nursing and the Media, nurses were identified as sources in only 2% of health news stories in the same print publications investigated in the earlier study, showing no improvement in 20 years. We sought to interview health journalists across a spectrum of media to better understand their perceptions of the barriers and facilitators to using nurses as sources in news stories.

Methods: This qualitative study employed a snowball sampling technique to obtain a sample of 10 health journalists.

The Woodhull Study Revisited: Nurses' Representation in Health News Media 20 Years Later.

Purpose: To determine if nurses are represented in health news stories more frequently today than 20 years ago when Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honorary Society published The Woodhull Study on Nursing and the Media, which found that nurses were cited as sources in only 4% of the stories.

Design: Content analysis of health news stories for the month of September 2017 in the same publications used in the original Woodhull study.

Methods: Searches with Nexis and Webhose identified 2,243 articles related to health care published by the news outlets in September 2017.