Member gifts when you join the Center

Please join us as a member today and help us improve public health. Donations are tax-deductible as allowed by law.

Act Now! When you join us or renew your membership today or make an additional member donation you will earn one gift point for each dollar donated. Spend your gift points on the pro-nursing gifts below. If you don't have enough gift points for all the merchandise you would like, you can also:

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0-1 points For free, we'll send you up to 5 bumper stickers. For more than 5, stickers are 1 point each.
25 points For 25 points, we'll send you our heavyweight ball point pen (black ink) with the Center's slogan (click pen for larger image)

25 points for three RN patches

For 25 points, you can get three RN patches. The original RN patches were designed by Mark Dion and J. Morgan Puett in collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia for the exhibition, RN: The Past, Present, and Future of the Nurses' Uniform, presented in 2003. The "RN" patch size is 45 x 55 mm or 1 3/4" x 2 3/16". Please see our full line of patches to the right.  

The wider patches are about
1 3/8" x 3 5/8" or 35 x 92 mm. Please specify your preference or "plain." To order additional RN patches, please add $1.50 for each extra patch onto your member donation and send us an email at info@nursingadvocacy.org to let us know how many patches you would like. (For instance, if you want 7 patches, you would make at least a $31 donation (unless you are a student, then start at $9 and add on). The first $25 includes 3 patches and the additional $6 is for 4 additional patches at $1.50 each).

Bulk orders:
10-49 patches = $1.25 each;
50 patches or more = $1.00 each.

Non-member pricing:
0-9 patches: $3.50 each;
10-49: $2.50 each;
50 patches or more: $2.00 each.

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40 points: Saving Lives: Why the Media's Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All at Risk

Popular TV shows like Grey's Anatomy, ER, and House lead people to think that nurses simply push gurneys, drive romantic plots, and provide a human backdrop for the real action. However, 12 million nurses worldwide know the real work of nursing is far more fascinating and important.

Written by the leaders of the Center for Nursing Advocacy, the organization at the forefront of challenging and changing representations of nurses, Saving Lives is destined to change the way people look at the essential role nurses play within the health care system. It explores the public's perception of nurses and spells out the greatest myths about nursing, drawing on examples from television shows, ads, news, and other media.

Saving Lives exposes the media's role in the nursing shortage and the enduring stereotypes that undermine the profession. But it is also a call to action. Saving Lives offers concrete steps to help nurses, and those who support them, educate the public about nursing.

For millions of people worldwide, nurses are the difference between life and death, self-sufficiency and dependency, and hope and despair. Nonetheless a lack of appreciation for nursing has contributed to a global shortage that is one of our most urgent public health crises. There are not enough nurses available to monitor patients, provide high-tech treatments, advocate for patients, and teach patients how to live with their conditions. Poor understanding of what nurses do undermines claims for adequate staffing, and leads to a lack of resources for nursing practice, education, and research. All of that means worse patient outcomes, including death.

Saving Lives is yours free with a $40 donation to the Center. The book will be mailed to you on February 3, 2009 when it goes on sale.

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50 points: Nurse Action Figure

Donate $50 and receive a professional nurse action figure designed by Archie McPhee. It would ordinarily cost about $14 to have him delivered to your door, but he's yours free for joining. You can place him on your desk or give him to your sons, daughters, nieces or nephews--help lead a generation of boys and girls to dream about becoming nurses when they grow up. The Center's staff members have already seen a change in how their children think about nursing. (You'll instantly eliminate comments like "men can't be nurses.") You can order extra action figures or order them in bulk to take care of your shopping needs for all your kids' friends' birthday parties or your holiday gifts for kids and adults by clicking here. Help us change the image of nursing--one child (or adult) at a time.

	50 points: Center's T-Shirt with our slogan Donate $50 and receive a t-shirt with our slogan that reads: "When was the last time the media told you the truth about what nurses do?" In addition to have something cool to wear, you'll help to educate the world about the media bias nursing is struggling to overcome. And when you increase awareness about who nurses are and what they really do, you'll help to resolve the deadly global nursing shortage. T-shirts are white with blue printing. Available in: Kids Short Sleeve 100% Cotton 2T - 5T, CS-CL; Fruit of the Loom Ladies Short Sleeve Ring Spun 1x1 Rib Scoop Neck Tee S-L; "Men's" (gender neutral) Hanes Beefy-T 100% Cotton S - XXL. Members can buy extra t-shirts (shipping included) for: $12 each all kids sizes and sizes S - L of the "Men's" Hanes Beefy-T shirt $14 each for all sizes Fruit of the Loom Ladies Short Sleeve and size XXL of the "Men's" Hanes Beefy-T. Bulk discount: For 3 T-shirts or more, take $3 off the price of each shirt. For 10 shirts or more, take $4 off the price of each shirt. Non-member pricing: Add $5 onto the price of each t-shirt. You can add the price of the shirts onto your member donation or renewal and pay online--or if your membership is up-to-date in the past year, you can make the payment just for the shirts online. Be sure to email us at info@nursingadvocacy.org to tell us that your payment was for the shirts. And please let us know how many you would like and of what style (kids, women's, men's) and size. Thank you.
	50 points: "Just a Nurse" poster by Suzanne Gordon Donate $50 and you can have Suzanne Gordon's "Just a Nurse" poster. Buk discount 5-9 posters: $12/each                      10+ posters: $10/each Prices include shipping
	50 points: Nursing Diaries Part I: "The Rookies" Donate $50 and you can spend your 50 points on a free copy of the 4 star documentary by Richard Khan. See our review.

	100 points: Stainless steel license plate frame with our slogan: "Save Lives. Be a Nurse." Donate $100 and you can frame your license plate in style and educate the world that nurses do vital work saving lives. (This frame is not recommended for states that have stickers or state names on the bottom of the plate, or for Texas, because of a law on license plate frames. The frame fits license plates in the US and Canada.)

	100 points: From Silence to Voice Donate $100 and you can get a free copy of the award-winning 2006 2nd edition of the must-have book on nursing in the media, From Silence to Voice (a $19.95 value).
	100 points: Wit DVD Donate $100 and with your 100 points you can get a free DVD of Wit--the second highest ranked movie for nursing in our media review section. Read the review. Or if you prefer, you can spend your points on nurse action figures, patches or pens.
	100 points: Nurses 5-part documentary series on DVD Donate $100 and you'll receive the 5-part series of Nurses. This series from 2001 shows nurses in action in emergency / ICU, neonatal intensive care, oncology, psychiatry and pediatrics.
	175 points: Nursing Against the Odds Donate $175 and you'll receive Suzanne Gordon's acclaimed 2005 book Nursing Against the Odds. Read our review of the book.
	175 points: Angels in America DVD Donate $175 and you'll receive a free copy of Angels in America, the only movie we have rated four out of four stars for nursing. Read the review.

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