Cory Ellen

Accidentally left my sticker stash out when my kid was having his friends over for a graduation party, so apparently a pile of 18 year olds sat around discussing medication abortion in our living room 🥰🤩

Someone please introduce me to the man who pondered the best possible design for a blood pressure pill taken by elderly folks with shaky fingers and decided “tiny, narrow, and beige” was the way to go. I just want to talk.

Put phone down to make tea. Made tea. Picked up tea. Remembered I’d put phone down … somewhere? Put tea down to find phone. Eventually find phone. Remember I put tea down … somewhere? Is this hell this is hell isn’t it

Love it when someone I’ve supported through an abortion reaches out later to ask how they can support others ❤️

The best revenge is training abortion doulas so that’s what I’m going to do this weekend. Teaching everyone how to support and care for folks having abortions just as hard i can

College admissions are brutal. That is my update from our home with twin seniors.

You can love science and also find arguments for abortion safety that lean hard into medical authority gross and problematic.

I have some bad news for the vast majority of folks who take gabapentin

Reading @ruha9.bsky.social’s Imagination Manifesto and about to require both my kids to read this as a prerequisite for going to college. This is some beautiful, accessible, inspiring work.

Nurse practitioners are a lifeline for millions who live in healthcare deserts. A new proposed federal rule would strip NPs of access to education funds, putting the workforce at risk. @coryellen.bsky.social writes about the dangers of this rule in @nursingclio.bsky.social

Update: it is very hard to focus on ANYTHING with fascism growling so loudly

We're all trying to be careful with our language, so as not to offend, or not to lose federal funding for talking about paragraph transitions. To help you out, here's a worksheet to guide you in swapping out troublesome phrases for real, historical eel expressions. 🗃️🧪

I took a mixed levels modern dance class taught by my bff tonight. Failed to remember choreography, pulled several glutes, and had to take a break when I got dizzy. 10/10 would recommend.

But have you met Rome, sir

Every time I look at Kushner’s stupid face I hear my Bubbe muttering Shanda fur di goyim

Voting is a privilege, huh? Not a right? We’re just saying that out loud now?

The SOTU is an abomination but listening to my 91 year old mom curse at the TV is giving me some small pleasure

87% of NPs are primary health care providers. “Yet an obscure committee now promises to strip them of access to educational funds, putting the healthcare system, the nursing workforce, and patients at risk,” writes Cory Ellen Gatrall in this week’s ER essay. nursingclio.org/2026/02/23/p...

Got two articles through the proofing process this weekend, my book is officially under review, and I submitted an NIH grant proposal. Two speaking engagements this week, more coming up soon. Now all I need is a job for next year!

New piece just dropped! Public comment on this proposed change is open through March 2nd.

poets: …hear me out, though

Trying to remember that I’m frustrated because I’m ambitious. I could settle for less, or take on easier challenges. But I don’t. And that’s the person I want to be.

My kitchen tonight is like the Island of Misfit Bakes

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

a nurse who worked for the VA govsalaries.com/pretti-alex-...

Alex Pretti was a nurse and an an alum of UMN.

It is very hard to focus on this NIH Biosketch with fascism growling so loudly

General guide on how to help from outside Minnesota: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h... Places to donate: www.standwithminnesota.com

The joy of multigenerational living (ages 91-17) becomes extra special at laundry time

Put two pairs of cute glasses in my cart, then cancelled the transaction and sent that money to a friend living in a van. This timeline. Whew.

I am not allowed to buy more yarn I am not allowed to buy more yarn I am not allowed to buy mo - *weeps*

The Times passed on my op ed about the federal redefinition of “professional” to exclude nursing being a pronatalist Project 2025 tactic for … this?

I know the world has bigger problems but I might die of revising citations and I need someone to know

Minneapolis.

I cheerfully chirped “influenza is at a 25 year high! ERs are overwhelmed!” at my 91 year old mom’s unmasked geriatrician yesterday. To her credit, she sighed and masked up.