Theresa Brown, RN

Theresa Brown, RN, is the New York Times best-selling author of Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient and The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives.

Articles by Theresa Brown, RN

Theresa Brown, RNNews | September 25, 2024
Theresa Brown, RN, weighs in on how structural racism has impacted the trajectory of the American health care system.
Read More
Theresa Brown, RNNews | July 17, 2024
Theresa Brown, RN, unpacks the role of private equity in health care and explains how it impacts patients and professionals.
Theresa Brown, RNNews | June 24, 2024
Theresa Brown, RN, weighs in on what nurses should know about the internal workings of our health care system.
Theresa Brown, RNNews | May 22, 2024
It’s time for hospital executives to recognize that nurses create care, and that their essential work is priceless.
Theresa Brown, RNNews | April 9, 2024
There's an important corollary concern to hospital staffing, and that is whether hospitals can retain the nurses they have.
Theresa Brown, RNBest Practices | March 13, 2024
There’s a specificity to high-stakes clinical care that nursing diagnoses lack.
Theresa Brown, RNBest Practices | February 20, 2024
It’s important to tell nursing students the truth about clinical work, where the challenges will be even greater.
Theresa Brown, RNBest Practices | January 31, 2024
Nurses working while sick or injured is routine. This is the direct result of a culture that penalizes “calling off."
Theresa Brown, RNBest Practices | September 3, 2024
According to the ANA, “63% of nurses surveyed say that they have personally experienced an act of racism in the workplace."
Theresa Brown, RNBest Practices | September 3, 2024
Florence Nightingale made her mark, for good and ill, but reconceptualizing nursing depends on the nurses of today.
Theresa Brown, RNBest Practices | October 18, 2023
What's standard practice today may not be the case tomorrow.
Theresa Brown, RNBest Practices | September 21, 2023
Escalating levels of violence against health care workers calls for a reckoning. Why isn't the problem taken more seriously?
Theresa Brown, RNVideos | August 21, 2023
Theresa Brown, RN, New York Times bestselling author and CNT contributor, discusses workplace violence in health care.
Theresa Brown, RNBest Practices | August 16, 2023
Theresa Brown, RN, New York Times bestselling author, discusses the distinction between several types of nursing fatigue.
Theresa Brown, RNBest Practices | November 17, 2023
New York Times best-selling author Theresa Brown, RN, opines on the causes of and solutions to nurse burnout and shortages.
Theresa Brown, RNNews | June 29, 2023
Theresa Brown, RN, New York Times bestselling author, sets the record straight on replacing nurses with unlicensed personnel.