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11-30-2006
Access Nurses - Press Release
Nursing Shortage Spurs Campaign to Change the Image of Nursing in the Media
Healthcare staffing company to launch nationally-syndicated television show.....
11-30-2006
Access Nurses - Press Release
Staffing firm wins media award
Access Nurses, a national travel nurse company has won the 2006 Media Award from the American Academy of Nursing for the web based docu-drama, 13 WEEKS....
12-1-2005
CBS 5 - San Francisco CBS affiliate
The Growing Need For Nurses
The need for nurses is skyrocketing across the country, and especially in California. Hospitals are scrambling to comply with new staffing requirements of one nurse for every five patients...
11-24-2005
Reality Show Seeks to Recruit Nurses, Stat.
The show, 13 WEEKS, follows six nurses recruited from across the nation as they live in a rented $10 million mansion, go surfing and sky diving in their spare time and work in hospitals in Orange County -- home of MTV's reality show "Laguna Beach" and the hit Fox TV drama "The O.C."
11-23-2005
Search for Nurses in California Is Feverish
One hospital staffing agency invited six nurses from around the country to work in local hospitals for 13 weeks while living in a mansion not far from the scene of MTV's hit reality show "Laguna Beach."
6-8-2005
Nursing shortage drums up demand for happy nomads
Recruitment is so competitive that one company, Access Nurses, is launching a travel-nurse reality show, 13 WEEKS, at www.nursetv.com. This fall, six nurses placed in Southern California hospitals will soak up the lifestyle in a beachside mansion supplied by Access and have their work and play videotaped for seven-minute webcasts.
5-20-2005
NPR Radio Coverage: NPR's Morning Edition, Friday May 20th, 2005 - Reality TV tackles nurse shortage.
The first Web-based reality show aims to recruit more nurses to address the shortage. Nurse TV will premiere this fall and focus on six nurses living together in a California beach mansion....
1-6-2006
Hispanic healthcare: A closer look from the traveler's perspective
Cultural competency—or the incorporation of patients' ethnic beliefs, traditions, and practices—in a care plan has long been a key element to nursing and allied health...
12-1-2005
Nursing shortage inspires cable reality show
Some hunk isn't handing out red roses. And the only island around is Catalina, which on a clear day can be seen from the sun-kissed balcony of the $10-million mansion....
12-1-2005
Nurse-staffing firm creates reality show to draw more to profession
"After L.A. Law, everyone wanted to be a lawyer," said Alan Braynin, chief executive of Access Nurses, a San Diego nurse-staffing company that created what is believed to be the first Web-based reality show. "Hopefully, after this, more people will want to be nurses," Braynin said.
11-29-2005
Staffing Firm Launches Reality Show to Combat Nursing Shortage
Access Nurses, a national nurse staffing company, is combating the nation's nursing shortage and encouraging more people to enter the profession by changing the image of nursing through its new reality show, 13 WEEKS.
11-25-2005
California law sets off gold rush to locate nurses
One hospital staffing agency has turned to reality TV. The result is a show designed to tantalize nurses across the nation with the joys of nursing in Southern California. Access Nurses, the San Diego-based company that created the half-hour show, plans to show the episodes on the Web at www.nursetv.com and hopes to get them on television.
11-25-2005
Nursing Reality on TV
"We want to change the perception of nurses as older women who just change bedpans and show people that this can be an exciting lifestyle," said Alan Braynin, chief executive of Access Nurses.
11-24-2005
Reality show hopes to recruit nurses
The show was the brainchild of San Diego-based recruiting agency Access Nurses as part of efforts to resolve a desperate shortage of nurses as California gears up to implement a law that mandates one nurse for every five patients in most hospital wards.
11-24-2005
Demand for Nurses Heats Up Competition Among California Hospitals
Demands for new nurses in hospitals and medical centers in California have been on the rise as the state is introducing a new healthcare law and facing a continuing population growth. One hospital staffing agency used reality TV show as a tool to lure potential targets by inviting six nurses from around the country to work in local hospitals for 13 weeks.
11-23-2005
Nurse reality show bids to reverse Calif. Shortfall
"We want to change the perception of nurses as older women who just change bedpans and show people that this can be an exciting lifestyle," Braynin said.
11-23-2005
A little bit of 'ER', a little bit of 'The O.C.'
The idea of a nursing reality show initially made a local hospital executive laugh. But as the concept sunk in, he became intrigued. He thought it was a smart way to combat the acute nursing crunch.
11-23-2005
Nurse reality show bids to reverse Calif. shortfall
An Internet-based reality show about nurses made its debut on Wednesday in a bid to improve the image of the profession and attract more nurses to California. The show was the brainchild of San Diego-based recruiting agency Access Nurses as part of efforts to resolve a desperate shortage of nurses as California gears up to implement a law that mandates one nurse for every five patients in most hospital wards.
11-23-2005
Nurse Shortage Sets Off a Bidding War
"There's nothing that's scandalous on the show, and yet it's highly entertaining,"said Alan Braynin, chief executive of Access Nurses. "You see people delivering babies. You see people learning new things, pushing themselves to the limit. You see people enjoying Southern California."
11-23-2005
Demand for nurses on rise in Calif. Hospitals
One hospital staffing agency used reality TV show as a tool to lure potential targets by inviting six nurses from around the country to work in local hospitals for 13 weeks. The result is a show called "13 Weeks," designed to tantalize nurses around the country with the joys of nursing in Southern California.
9-12-2005
First Travel Nurse Reality Show Announces Cast Members by NurseTV.com
Access Nurses, a national travel nurse company, today announced the six cast members for the first reality show about travel nurses -- highly skilled healthcare professionals who travel the country working at hospitals with acute needs for 13 weeks at a time....
8-31-2005
Nursing firm creates reality show
"13 Weeks," a creation of a Access Nurses, a San Diego nurse staffing company. The local company created the Web-based reality show to recruit staff, and to promote the company and the profession.
6-13-2005
Traveling nurses surge amid shortage
"Our objective is to let young people know travel nursing is a viable career, and you can have an exciting lifestyle," says Access Nurses CEO Alan Braynin. "We have nurses who ski in winters and surf in summers."
5-31-2005
Nashville City Paper - Paging all nurses.
...what better way to stoke interest in nursing than by starting a new reality TV show?
5-21-2005
The Dallas Morning News - Casting about for nurses.
San Diego-based health care staffing company Access Nurses has issued a nationwide casting call for nurses to be on 13 WEEKS, a Web-based reality show....
5-21-2005
Let's put on a show!
Today NPR's Morning Edition ran a piece by Patricia Neighmond taking a remarkably uncritical look at what is reportedly the first web-based "reality show," a project produced by a California travel nurse agency that NPR says is called "Nurse TV"
5-17-2005
First travel nurse reality show opens casting call.
The casting call will be open for about four weeks and will consist of an application process, reference, background check and audition tape. People can vote on the shows candidates from early June to mid-July at....
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ABC World News Tonight 12-26-2005 ABC World News Tonight profiles Access Nurses traveler Jennifer Hall and the Access Nurses reality show 13 WEEKS. |
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CNN 12-2-2005 CNN’s Chris Lawrence interviews Access Nurses CEO Alan Braynin and 13 Weeks cast member Amy Morrison. |
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CNBC 11-29-2005 On The Money's Jane Wells explores the nursing shortage and interviews the cast of 13 Weeks. |
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KABC Los Angeles affiliate 11-23-2005 FKABC in Los Angeles stops by the mansion to meet the cast of the new reality sensation, 13 WEEKS. |
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KUSI 11-29-2005 13 WEEKS cast members Alycen and Angel are interviewed by San Diego’s KUSI News team. |
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10 News 11-23-2005 San Diego gives recognition to local nurse staffing agency Access Nurses and the release of 13 Week’s first webisode. |
