2025-11-18T12:17:23-05:00 2024-12-31 990 2024-01-01 263944281 Truth About Nursing Inc TRUT 4103231100 3330 Chestnut Ave Baltimore MD 21211 Sandy Summers Executive Director 4432533738 2025-11-19 false 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Sandy Summers 3330 Chestnut Ave Baltimore MD 21211 261410 false X X 2008 MD The Truth About Nursing seeks to increase public understanding of the central front-line role nurses play in modern health care. Our focus is to promote more accurate balanced and frequent media portrayals of nurses and increase the medias use of nurses as expert sources. The Truth About Nursings ultimate goal is to foster growth in the size and diversity of the nursing profession at a time of critical shortage strengthen nursing practice teaching and research and improve the health care system. 5 5 0 0 0 0 260741 0 669 0 261410 766 0 0 0 0 13429 14195 247215 269008 0 269008 X The Truth About Nursing seeks to increase public understanding of the central front-line role nurses play in modern health care. Our focus is to promote more accurate balanced and frequent media portrayals of nurses and increase the medias use of nurses as expert sources. The Truth About Nursings ultimate goal is to foster growth in the size and diversity of the nursing profession at a time of critical shortage strengthen nursing practice teaching and research and improve the health care system. false false 4200 0 0 Outreach to nurses and nursing students through our e-newsletters emails telephone calls and speaking engagements to educate them why it is important to promote a better public image of nursing to encourage participation in letter-writing campaigns and to encourage them to educate others about our mission. Outreach to the media through letters telephone calls and emails to encourage the creation of media that depicts the nursing profession more fairly and accurately. We distribute our analyses and letters to the media makers of the news and media items that we critique on our web pages. We make many telephone calls to various media creators expressing concern or encouragement and thanks depending on the type of depiction. 2862 0 0 Improving public understanding of the nursing profession by challenging negative stereotypes in the media and encouraging nurses to create positive media. Educate nurses the media and the public about current media treatments of nursing and ultimately work to increase public understanding of nursing. We create videos and add to our website and blog also in that same effort. 0 0 0 When we see media treatment that is especially bad for the nursing profession we mobilize our members and the public to sign petitions and or write letters to those responsible in order to educate and encourage better media treatment and ultimately improve public health. We thank media creators who do a good job portraying nurses. We spearhead many letter-writing campaigns to convince those who create media to portray nursing more accurately. Thousands of signatures comments and or letters combined have been sent in these campaigns. The effect of these letters on those who receive them is not negligible regardless of the fact that we were not always able to see a positive visible effect in the short-term. 7062 true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 0 0 0 false false false false false false false false X 5 5 false false false false false false false true true false false true true true true true false false false false X Sandy Summers 4103231100 3330 Chestnut Ave Baltimore MD 21211 X Sandy Summers Executive Director 40.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Gina Pistulka Board Chair 20.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Richard Kimball Vice Chair 20.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Kelly Bower Treasurer 20.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Paul Sacco Secretary 20.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 false false false 0 260741 0 0 0 0 0 260741 0 669 669 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 261410 669 0 0 X 0 0 766 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1431 0 1431 0 0 0 0 0 11799 7062 4737 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 199 0 199 0 14195 7062 6367 0 8046 5584 18203 263379 0 0 405 405 0 0 0 0 0 0 -360 -360 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26294 269008 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 26294 269008 0 0 26294 269008 26294 269008 247215 0 0 0 -4501 0 X false false false X 32655 46913 21840 18458 260741 380607 32655 46913 21840 18458 260741 380607 380607 0 0 22 58 669 749 0 0 22 58 669 749 32655 46913 21862 18516 261410 381356 0.9980 0.99 0.0020 0.01 X Part VI, Section B, Line 11b Reviewed by Board Part VI, Section B, Line 12c No members have a conflict Part VI, Section C, Line 19 On Website Part IX, line 11g | Description:, Amount:| IT Professional, $1431| We were initially advised to file Form 990-PF an annual information return required for private foundations. However upon further review it was determined that our organization was not obligated to submit this form. As a result we were able to avoid unnecessary expenses and administrative burdens associated with the filing process.