Jen Brown: Nursing Freedom Back to Health in NJ

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If you’re active in the health freedom movement in New Jersey, you’ve likely heard of Nurse Jen.  She was one of a precious few nurses who was brave enough to show up and speak out in Trenton back in 2020 as the rights of New Jerseyans were unceremoniously stripped away for “the greater good”. 

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If you found yourself in the unlucky position of having to decide whether you need to bring a loved one to the ER or were trying to discern your rights and untangle the truth from the onslaught of assertions and demands during Covid, you may have even sought her out. And if you are one of the many who reached out to Nurse Jen over the last two and a half years, chances are she helped you navigate your crisis, whatever it was.  

She’s kind of “if you give a mouse a cookie” that way: if you come to Nurse Jen with a problem, she’s going to try and solve it.

Jen Brown is the ultimate safe space. She has 30 years of critical care experience and has worked in settings ranging from small community intensive care units to large trauma centers. Jen has also worked as a research nurse liaison, so she understands how studies are designed and executed. Jen currently works as a PACU (post-anesthesia care unit, aka recovery room) nurse, and when she’s not doing that, she is running a chiropractic care center with her husband (who also happens to be her high-school sweetheart).  

Suffice it to say she has looked behind a lot of curtains and is comfortable straddling various health perspectives. But it’s not the broad range of experience that makes Jen so extraordinary. It’s her willingness to listen and learn from patients. 

“I am a big believer in listening. I think the experts are parents. So for me, listening to a mom talk to me about her child who got a shot and was injured, that makes me question, well, why? I just never felt like it should ever have been anything other than that conversation. In our office still to this day, parents are our experts. My husband is excellent at what he does, but we listen to parents. We don’t tell the parents what’s going on with their child. They tell us.” 

In fact it is parents (and her husband) that she credits with some of the most valuable lessons she has learned in her life and career. These are the people who taught her to question the orthodoxy and revisit her assumptions. 

“I was a nurse. My husband was a chiropractor. We never talked about shots when we got married. Then I got pregnant and he was like, so you know we’re not going to be giving the baby any shots… and I was like, Huh? What are you talking about?... I didn’t even know what shots babies got, because as a nurse you don’t know. You’re not taught anything about shots. You just learn that babies get vaccinated.”

So she read Barbara Loe Fisher’s A Shot in the Dark and she started talking to anyone she could find who chose a different path. For Jen, these were mothers within the chiropractic community.

“There weren’t really any internet resources in 2001.  So I would talk to moms and be like, What did you do? How did you do it? and they would tell me, Oh no, we don’t do those shots. We don’t give Tylenol. And I kind of learned from all of those moms.”

As more autistic families sought help at their chiropractic center, Jen observed disturbing patterns and realized that more education was needed. 

“I started hearing more and more of the same story about every single solitary vaccine-injured child. And I was like, Ok, I have to start teaching this. People don’t know. All these kids had the same exact story. They were fine, they were progressing, they got their shot and then we lost them. So it was the same story over and over in my one little tiny office.”

She and her husband started creating educational talks related to informed consent for vaccination. Her emphasis has always been education and choice. “I never say you shouldn’t get this shot,” explains Jen. “ I say read. I say here’s the information – make an informed decision.”

For many years she was content to keep a low profile - doing small educational talks for her local community and writing letters and meeting with legislators alongside other health freedom advocates. She didn’t pick up the microphone until 2020.

“I didn’t speak until after Covid. I couldn’t take it anymore because I saw. I saw what happened inside of my hospital, and I felt as though everyone should know what I was seeing.”

Nurse Jen Brown at the State House in Trenton

Speaking out against vaccine mandates at Rutgers

At the start of the pandemic, her hospital shut down the recovery unit and Jen was deployed to the ICU (intensive care unit). 

“In my hospital we didn’t have ventilators for the first 2 weeks of COVID,” Jen explains. “My emergency room was treating with hydroxychloroquine even before you had a positive COVID test.”

That was before they took HCQ away.

“Initially, we would get reports from other hospitals with 60 ventilators and we were all like do we just have healthier people? What is happening? And then suddenly - I don’t know how - the entire unit was full. It was crazy. All of our IVs were in the hallway. They drilled holes through the walls, the ventilators were in the hallway… you didn’t even have these things in the rooms. Everything was outside.

You just knew these people were so sick. Everybody was on a ventilator. Everybody was on drips. Everybody was dying. People were coding left and right… So for the first couple of weeks of COVID, I didn’t really think. I was just acting. I just had to save these people.”

 It wasn’t until things quieted down a bit that Jen caught her breath and took stock of the situation. .

“I never denied that COVID was real. In the beginning, those were the sickest people I’ve ever seen in my life. How sick they were never made sense to me. They were all the same. They were all the same color. They all had the same bloodwork, same symptoms. Everybody presented the same, whether you were 40 or 97.

Concerned for the fate of her patients, she was eager to find other treatment strategies. She started calling different hospitals in search of useful protocols and alternative treatments. She learned about hyperbaric oxygen, intravenous vitamin C and various supplements that were demonstrating success at other facilities and she shared what she learned with her colleagues. She was also focused on trying to get people off ventilators. 

“I did get the first patient in my hospital off the ventilator and he’s alive and well today.” Her voice breaks as she continues, “I’m very proud of that. Because he lived.”

Fast forward to May 2020 and the crisis she had witnessed was essentially over. It was back to regular staff at Jen’s hospital. Surgeries opened up again and she returned to the PACU. But no one seemed to get the memo.

“I was like, why are people lying?” Jen recalls.

While she wasn’t necessarily prepared to speak, Jen felt compelled.

“I didn’t really know what I was doing, I kind of just said yes and ended up being on the steps of Trenton to talk about ending the mandates. I got on the microphone with no plan… and that went viral. It was like 3.3 million views.”

Those videos have all been removed from YouTube and Twitter, but you can watch her here.

Her truth clearly resonated. And once Nurse Jen found her voice, there was no turning back. Even the people who mocked her early on now quietly seek her help.

“I think speaking out for me is an outlet. I think that actually helps me. I need to be like here’s the truth, and I think when I do that it takes a lot of the stress away for me. Teaching helps me. Talking to my patients. I get to talk to people every day…and that’s what makes me feel better. I just have to do something.”

Over two years and hundreds of empowering conversations later, Nurse Jen is still at it. She’s not giving up on health or freedom. And we couldn’t be more grateful.

Thank you, Nurse Jen.