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Something to absolutely not believe

If at first you don't succeed, try try again -- apparently even when it comes to impersonating a nurse. Leticia Gallarzo has now been convicted THREE times for posing as a licensed nurse and has earned herself 75 months in federal prison. How does someone rack up a third offense in healthcare fraud without the system catching on sooner? The better question: who kept hiring her? This one belongs in the hall of infamy.

Something to make you furious

While nurses across the country have spent much of 2026 on picket lines fighting for safe staffing levels and livable wages, a new op-ed in the Chicago Sun-Times is calling out what many of us already know: nurses are barely a footnote in the national health care debate. The piece lays out a damning comparison — hospital executive compensation packages exceeding $10 million at public for-profit hospitals, while the nurses keeping those hospitals running are told there's no money for adequate staffing. The conversation around rising health care costs focuses on insurance premiums and drug prices, but conveniently ignores how hospital systems funnel resources into administrative expansion instead of bedside care. Nurses are among the most trusted professionals in the country, and yet our perspective is treated as optional. Read the full piece below — and try not to throw your phone.

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Something to make us nurses proud

You never truly clock out when you're a nurse. An off-duty nurse at a Las Vegas Golden Knights game jumped into action when a woman named Jeannie collapsed nearby. CPR was initiated, Jeannie survived, and the two have since become close friends. This is the kind of story that reminds you why there's a nurse shortage and somehow also why we love being nurses. Every room is a little safer when there's a nurse in it.

Something from a Subscriber

"Last Thanksgiving I was working a 12-hour night shift in the ER. Around 2 AM we got a call — 89-year-old male, found unresponsive at a family dinner. His family was a wreck when they came in. Turns out grandpa had a massive stroke right there at the table between the turkey and the pie. We worked on him, stabilized him, and got him up to the ICU. I didn't think much of it after that — just another shift. Fast forward four months. I'm grabbing coffee before a shift and this older guy walks up to me in the cafeteria. Full suit, big smile. He goes, 'You don't remember me, do you?' I honest to God did not. He said, 'You saved my life on Thanksgiving. My granddaughter just got engaged and I'm going to walk her down the aisle because of you and your team.' I ugly cried in the cafeteria. In my scrubs. Holding a stale muffin. Ten years in and that's the moment I'll never forget." — Jamie R., ER nurse, Ohio

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