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The Untold Story of the Courageous Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

On episode 454 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Maria Smilios, the author of The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Ms Smilios discuss how numerous Black nurses fled the Jim Crow south in search of opportunity in the non-segregated north, and how many ended up working at Sea View Hospital on Staten Island, a facility focused on the treatment — and to a large extent the warehousing — of thousands of TB patients.
Listeners may be shocked to learn that the American Nurses Association barred Black nurses from being members until they gave in to pressure in 1949, despite Black nurses' impressive contributions to the development of the profession.
A native of New York City, Ms. Smilios holds a Masters of Arts from Boston University in Religion & Literature where she was a Henry Luce Scholar and a Presidential Scholar. She also taught Essay and Research writing in the university’s writing program.
 In 2007, she left Boston and moved back to New York City to teach at an all-girls high school. There she created and ran an intensive summer writing program for teens.
 Maria formerly worked as a development editor in the Biomedical Sciences editing books in lung diseases, pediatric and breast cancer, neurology, and ocular diseases. It was during this time when she read a line in a book that led her to discover the story of the Black Angels.
 Through writing the book, she has become in involved in advocating for affordable and accessible TB drugs in TB-heavy countries, working with and supporting organizations such as EndTB and Partners in Health.
In the past, Ms. Smilios has written for The Guardian, American Nurse, Narratively, The Rumpus, Dame Magazine, and The Forward among others.
The Black Angels is her first book.
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Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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Where Do Nurse Practitioners Turn When They Need Collaborating Docs?

On episode 453 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Annie DePasquale, MD, a physician who cares about nurse practitioners and helps them to find caring, compassionate, and interested physicians with whom they can collaborate, especially in states where such a relationship is legally required.
In 2020, Dr. DePasquale founded Collaborating Docs when she realized that the hoops that nurse practitioners have to jump through to start practicing are too exhausting for anyone to handle alone, especially in light of how challenging it is for NPs to find collaborating physicians.
Dr. DePasquale benefited greatly from the mentorship of NPs throughout her career, especially when she was a green new doctor, so she is very committed to giving back to the community that helped her so much. Her mission is to make it easy for NPs to help more patients by having freedom of choice. Collaborating Docs has helped over 2500 NPs match with collaborating physicians.
Originally studying piano & French as an undergrad at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr. DePasquale subsequently graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and completed her Facility Medicine Residency program at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She has taught for the Teach America program in Baltimore, MD and worked for federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in Washington, D.C., Medford, Oregon, and Lynchburg, Virginia.
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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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Perinatal Safety Nursing, Evidence-Based Practice, and Fostering a Culture of Safety

On episode 452 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Jeanette Zocco, MSN, RNC-OB, C-EFM, C-ONQS, a Perinatal Safety Nurse who is a champion of evidence-based practice and the fostering of cultures of safety in nursing and healthcare. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Jeanette discuss the role of the Perinatal Safety Nurse, the importance of quality and safety in improving patient outcomes and efficiency/workflow for frontline staff, and the recent publication of Jeanette's book, Obstetric and Neonatal Quality and Safety (C-ONQS) Study Guide: A Practical Resource for Perinatal Nurses.
Jeanette Zocco is a leader in perinatal quality and safety, with 25 years of experience in obstetrics in the hospital setting. She has worked as a bedside nurse, a charge nurse, a clinical nurse leader, a perinatal safety nurse, and a quality improvement performance specialist. She is known for developing innovative perinatal quality and safety programs in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. Her programs have demonstrated improved maternal and neonatal safety outcomes. 
Her areas of expertise include: data analysis, quality improvement, patient safety, nursing education, clinical research, medical record chronology preparation, project management, multidisciplinary simulation, labor and delivery, team training, and fetal heart monitoring education. Some examples of quality improvement initiatives include the following programs: safe reduction in primary cesarean delivery, obstetric hemorrhage safety bundle, shoulder dystocia team response program, prevention of retained surgical items, multidisciplinary placenta accreta program, and a standardized approach to obstetric triage. Her experience includes both intrahospital and system level perinatal quality and safety work in a large multi-institutional health care delivery system.  
Most recently, in alignment with her goal to help elevate nursing practice and educate on quality and safety, Jeanette authored a study guide for the Obstetric and Neonatal Quality and Safety (C-ONQS) certification exam offered through the National Certification Corporation (NCC).
Jeanette holds NCC certifications in inpatient obstetrics, fetal heart monitoring, and obstetric and neonatal quality and safety. In addition, she is certified in simulation through Drexel University. 
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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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How Charting Hacks Decrease NP Burnout and Increase Career Satisfaction

On episode 451 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Erica Dorn, APRN, a nurse practitioner, entrepreneur, and owner of The NP Charting School. Ms. Dorn teaches charting and time management hacks to help NPs avoid burnout and experience greater job satisfaction.
In the course of their conversation, Keith and Erica discuss how the 15-minute visit and the demands of charting cause a lack of work-life balance and nurse practitioner burnout. Many APRNs stay late at work or bring charts home to catch up on documentation, and using smart phrases, practicing problem-focused chart notes, and other hacks can significantly reduce the charting burden.
Erica D the NP is a family nurse practitioner and nurse practitioner charting coach. After overcoming burnout herself, Erica created The Burned-out Nurse Practitioner to help overwhelmed NPs create a better work-life balance and overcome burnout. Through this work, Erica realized that charting was the #1 cause of nurse practitioner burnout. So Erica created The Nurse Practitioner Charting School to be the one stop for all documentation resources created specifically for nurse practitioners. She now helps nurse practitioners improve their charting so they can STOP charting at home, create a better work-life balance, and overcome burnout.
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Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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Exponentially Elevating and Improving the Patient Experience

On episode 450 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Kissinger Goldman, DP, MBA, a highly experienced emergency physician and sought-after patient experience consultant. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Goldman discuss the critical importance of communication and connection in order for the provider-patient relationship to lead to satisfying outcomes for all concerned. His new book, Dr. Goldman's Guide to Effective Patient Communication, is a powerful resource for healthcare providers and organizations seeking to exponentially improve the patient experience.
Dr. Kissinger Goldman is a board certified Emergency Room physician, Director of Patient Experience for the Memorial Healthcare System Emergency Departments, and Assistant Medical Director of Memorial Hospital West ED, with over a decade of experience in leadership and direct patient care.
Soon after completing his training, Dr Goldman was tapped to work with other physicians at his hospital to improve patient experience, and developed a training program that is now used throughout the EDs at his healthcare system, resulting in improved patient experience scores to top decile. He subsequently began working as a patient experience consultant. In this role, he has helped healthcare organizations develop patient-centered care plans, improve patient-provider communication, and implement strategies to improve patient satisfaction.
Dr. Goldman is committed to working with healthcare organizations to create positive change. He believes that by focusing on the needs of patients and healthcare providers we can improve outcomes and deliver better care to those in need.
In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Goldman serves as Assistant Clinical Professor at Florida Atlantic University Medical School, Florida International University department of Emergency Medicine and Critical care, and Founding Clinical Faculty Member at Orlando College of Osteopathic Medicine. He is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Primary Care Haiti, a non-profit dedicated to providing emergency response training to Haitian medical professionals.
Fluent in French and Haitian creole, conversational in Spanish, Dr. Goldman is currently learning Mandarin. Outside of medicine, he enjoys gardening, exploring the mountains, reading, exercising, and spending time with his family. He lives in Florida with his wife and three boys.
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Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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Using Meditation to Rekindle the Joy of Nursing Practice

On episode 449 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Betsy Thompson, RN, MSN, CCRN, an Immersive Meditation Guide and Growth Coach dedicated to guiding her fellow nurses out of the pits of despair and back to a sense of relief and joy in their nursing practice through the power of meditation.
Betsy has been a practicing critical care nurse for over 15 years, working at the bedside, in leadership, and in education. She obtained a BSN from Ohio State University in 2007, an MSN in Nursing Leadership from Chamberlain College of Nursing in 2016, and she is also CCRN certified.
With a passion for holistic nursing and all things spiritual, Betsy sought out simple and effective ways to combat nurse burnout and pursued training in guided meditation. Now, along with working directly with patients, she is an Immersive Meditation Guide & Growth Coach.
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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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Normalized Deviance and Mitigating the Risk of Serious Medical Errors

On episode 448 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Rebecca Dodmead, MSN, Ed, a highly experienced critical care nurse and educator who experienced a life-changing and life-threatening injury during a routine surgery. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Becca dive deep into how normalized deviance and knowledge gaps put patients at great risk of otherwise wholly preventable errors and harm.
Rebecca Dodmead has an extensive background in critical care and the ED. As an educator, she has served as both an adjunct college nursing instructor and hospital educator. Rebecca sustained a preventable injury during what was hoped to be a routine laparoscopic hysterectomy. This unfortunate event — the result of normalized deviance, significant knowledge gaps, and delays in care — found Becca navigating life with a colostomy, a wound vac, pleural effusions, a subsequent divert ileostomy, and other life-changing obstacles.
In light of what happened to her, Becca wants to use this experience to educate nurses and prevent it from happening to anyone else. Becca has also founded Artisans for Good, a nonprofit that she hopes to use as a vehicle to help others navigating serious illness.
Becca is proud to be a student in the inaugural class of Doctorate of Nursing Education at Ohio State University, with the expectation of graduating in May of 2025.
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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response

On episode 447 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Jeremy Norton, an author and firefighter who has served the diverse communities of Minneapolis since the year 2000. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Jeremy discuss his new book, Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response, which is a remarkable and brilliantly written memoir that examines the toll that the work of emergency response takes on those who embrace such a career.
In Trauma Sponges, Norton also decries the sexism, racism, homophobia, misogyny, and toxic masculinity of the "old guard" of the firefighting world. He also describes in excruciating detail the death, suffering, pain, and heartbreak that he and his colleagues witness on a daily basis as they respond to the homes and streets of Minneapolis when citizens who dial 911 are having what is often the worst days of their lives amidst what Norton calls the "twin malignancies" of denial and despair.
Norton also recounts his role in the attempt to resuscitate George Floyd following his brutal treatment by officers of the Minneapolis Police Department. He shares his observations of the societal patterns that continue to haunt our country and the Black men who are all too often on the receiving end of egregious, and often deadly, treatment at the hands of the police.
A proud native of Washington, D.C., Jeremy Norton has lived in the Colorado mountains, the Tennessee mountains, and the Minnesota not-mountains. He taught middle- and high-school literature and has also taught at Minneapolis' Loft Literary Center. He has a strong stomach and a grim, capacious sense of humor.
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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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Cutting-Edge Strategies to Combat Burnout and Moral Distress in Healthcare Professionals

On episode 446 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Sandra Shallcross, PhD, LP regarding her use of evidence-based, cutting-edge strategies for to combat burnout and moral distress in healthcare professionals.
In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Shallcross discuss how commonly used, well-meaning, yet cookie-cutter wellness and self-care techniques cannot get to the core of the moral distress and burnout being experienced by healthcare professionals at this time in history. The solution to the many dangerously ubiquitous challenges to the health and well-being of thousands of healthcare professionals worldwide lies in addressing both systemic issues and individual narratives that stand in the way of healing. Dr. Shallcross's "Joy in Practice" online course offers a comprehensive yet efficient approach to achieving real change.
Sandra Shallcross, PhD, LP received her doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Minnesota and completed a fellowship in Trauma Psychology at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. She has devoted much of her career to exploring the core dimensions of human resilience and purpose. In 2015, she embarked on a mission to change the landscape of healthcare practitioner training. She has carefully crafted resources across educational modalities, from one-on-one services, to dynamic presentations and transformative workshops.
In 2022, Dr. Shallcross expanded her services to create Restore Health Academy, an accessible, online resource grounded in cutting-edge clinician well-being approaches. She is committed to foregrounding gold-standard, evidence-based strategies in all her training, including cognitive behavioral and mindfulness-based practices. Her teaching, informed by 25 years of personal practice in yoga and meditation, is rooted in compassion and an ethical dedication to supporting the well-being of clinicians and patients alike.

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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Reaching for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Through Nursing Education

On episode 445 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Mykale Elbe, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, Assistant Dean of Nursing at Maryville University.
Can nurses make a difference to improve the health of patient from all DEI backgrounds? In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Elbe discuss how nursing education can improve in terms of preparing nurses to advocate for patients of diverse backgrounds, and the critical influence of concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to nursing education.
Dr. Mykale Elbe’s career is highlighted by her passion and advocacy for women, children, and minorities. A Maryville instructor since 2015, she guides the next generation of nurses and caregivers through diverse course offerings and hands-on learning.
Dr. Elbe, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, actively practices as a family nurse practitioner at Mercy Health and champions for promoting health literacy with her patients. She has performed vast research in her field, with a primary focus on breastfeeding support in an urban community.
Additionally, Dr. Elbe has led various presentations concentrated around community health, patient-centered care, student engagement, and interactive educational methods in online environments. An alumnus of Saint Louis University, Dr. Elbe earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science in Nursing with a concentration in Family Nurse Practice.
As a doctoral student, Dr. Elbe concentrated her capstone project in the importance of text message support for breastfeeding in an urban population.
Throughout her education, Dr. Elbe received honors from Alpha Epsilon Lambda-Graduate Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu-Jesuit Honor Society, and Sigma Theta Tau-Nursing Honor Society.
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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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Using Polarity Intelligence to Address the Many Challenges Faced by Healthcare Leaders

On episode 444 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Michelle Troseth, MSN, RN, FNAP, FAAN and Tracy Christopherson, PhD, MS, BAS, RRT, FNAP, whose dynamic and forward-thinking approach to the challenges faced by today's healthcare leaders could be game-changer for those willing to think and respond differently.
In the course of their conversation, Keith and his guests discuss how lack of work-life balance and burnout are major challenges for nurses leaders, and why a new leadership competency — what Tracy and Michelle call Polarity Intelligence — is essential to combat burnout and turn the tide for these hard-working individuals.
Michelle and Tracy have been interprofessional leaders, friends and colleagues for over 30 years, and they are co-hosts of a top healthcare leadership podcast, Healthcare’s MissingLogic Podcast.
They have combined experience of more than 60 years working as consultants and coaches for healthcare organizations across North America, supporting healthcare leaders as they strive to create healthy, healing work cultures. They frequently speak at national and international leadership conferences on the topics of managing polarities, achieving work-life balance, and living a resilient life.
 Michelle and Tracy have also developed and apply the Dynamic Balance Effect® Framework to help healthcare leaders create work-life balance, live with intention, and be their best self at work and at home through their leadership coaching and mentorship programs.
They have a book coming out in January of 2024 called Polarity Intelligence: The Missing Logic in Leadership. Polarity Intelligence helps leaders overcome conflict, diverse perspectives, and persistent problems which is central to their success in all areas of life.
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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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Advocating for the Crucial Importance of Public Health

On episode 443 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Jan Carney, MD, MPH, MACP, the Associate Dean for Public Health and Health Policy, Professor of Medicine, and the Director of Graduate Public Health Programs at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont.
In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Carney discuss the importance of public health, public health education, and the local and global implications of nurses embracing the many opportunities available to them in the public health arena.
Dr. Carney earned an AB from Middlebury College, her MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and Master of Public Health (MPH) from the Harvard School of Public Health. She previously served as Vermont’s Commissioner of Health under three gubernatorial administrations. In this role, she developed and implemented Vermont’s first outcome-based approach to improving public health, modeled on the national Healthy People initiative, combining clinical and community-based prevention.
Dr. Carney’s areas of expertise include building and sustaining community-academic partnerships, translational research, and reducing disparities in rural areas. She serves as Core Director of the Community Engagement and Outreach Core for the Northern New England Clinical and Translational Research Network (NNE-CTR), working to advance rural health research and community engagement.
Her current work focuses on developing and implementing the Vermont Rural Health Communication Network (RHCN) to promote two-way health communication in rural areas, strengthen access to health and social services, and improve health and scientific literacy. She is a member of the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health, serving on academic public health practice and advocacy committees, and serves as a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians.
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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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Making Long-Term Care Nursing a Specialty to be Proud Of

On episode 442 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews registered nurse, author, consultant, entrepreneur, and administrator Dr. Sylvia Abbeyquaye, Ph.D., MPA, RN. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Abbeyquaye discuss the importance of long-term care nursing and her mission to empower long-term care nurses to approach their practice with pride, discipline, critical thinking, and the framework of the nursing process. In Dr. Abbeyquaye's new book, Navigating Long- Term Care: A Practical Approach for Nurses, the author expounds on methods and strategies for regulatory compliance, nurse professional development, staff retention, and optimal quality of care.
Dr. Abbeyquaye is the founder of NSDxpert Education and Consultancy Services LLC. She is a highly trained registered nurse, author, consultant, entrepreneur, and administrator with over two decades of experience in the long-term healthcare industry. She has served virtually every level, from being a certified nurse assistant (CNA), staff nurse, and nursing supervisor to becoming a director of nursing. She is also a nurse educator who is on a mission to reform nurse staff development programs in long-term care facilities. In addition, Dr. Abbeyquaye is the owner and developer of the NurseLTC app!
Dr. Abbeyquaye began her education at the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. After immigrating to the United States, she earned a master's degree in public administration from Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts. Her academic journey continued with a second Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Ph.D. in Nursing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Abbeyquaye is currently an assistant professor of nursing at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) University in Boston, Massachusetts. She is passionate about teaching, mentoring new nurses, and advocating for long-term care staff development and practice reforms.
Connect with Dr. Sylvia Abbeyquaye:

www.nsdxpert.com

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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How Can Hospitality and Customer Service Improve the Patient Experience?

On episode 441 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews author and consultant Peter Yesawich, PhD regarding his new book, Hospitable Healthcare: Just What the Patient Ordered! In the book, Yesawich and his co-author Dr. Stowe Shoemaker, PhD make the argument that healthcare providers and facilities have the power to implement successful strategies championed by the hospitality industry in order to exponentially improve the patient experience. In the authors' view, healthcare's lack of attention to the basics of hospitality and customer service do significant damage to the public's view of the healthcare system and the facilities and providers that it employs. The concepts of hospitality have the potential to vastly improve healthcare delivery.
Peter C. Yesawich is Chairman of Hospitable Healthcare Partners, LLC, and Vice Chairman, Emeritus of MMGY Global. Hospitable Healthcare Partners is a consultancy serving hospitality and healthcare industry clients. MMGY Global is America’s leading marketing communications agency serving travel, leisure, and entertainment industry clients. Yesawich has led the development of marketing programs for some of the travel industry’s most popular destinations and admired brands.
From 2010 to 2020, Yesawich served as Chief Growth Officer (CGO) for Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (CTCA), a national network of specialty hospitals and outpatient clinics treating adults diagnosed with complex or advanced-stage cancer. CTCA became the most recognized national cancer care provider in the U.S. and the third most positively perceived hospital system in the country during his tenure as CGO.
Yesawich has been a frequent commentator on marketing trends in such publications as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, USA TODAY, Time, Newsweek, on the CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and BBC World television networks, and on National Public Radio.
Connect with Peter Yesawich:
HospitableHealthcare.com

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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The Intersection of an Aging Society, Climate Change, and Adult Gerontological Nurse Practitioners

On episode 440 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Ann Kriebel-Gasparro, DrNP, FNP, GNP, FAANP, a dually credentialed family & gerontological nurse practitioner. In the course of their conversation Keith and Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro discuss our aging society, the effects of climate change on older adults, and other issues salient to this time in history when adult gerontological nurse practitioners are needed more than ever.
Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro has her Doctor of Nursing Practice from Drexel University, and at the time of this interview she is the President Elect of GAPNA the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA).
Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro received the Pennsylvania State Award for Excellence from AANP in 2019 and the Distinguished Nursing Educator Award from the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence. In 2020, she received the GAPNA Excellence in Education Award.
Inducted in 2022 as a Fellow of FAANP Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro has several publications, Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro's most recent publication is "Chronic Disease Screening and Health Promotion for Older Men" in the Journal for Nurse Practitioners. Dr. Kriebel-Gasparro will also be presenting on the Effects of Climate Change in Older Adults at the AANP and GAPNA Conferences in 2023.
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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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Dr. Jay Slosar, PhD, clinical and forensic psychologist

Forensic Mental Health, Social Psychology, and Addressing Grief, Trauma, & Psychosocial Despair

On episode 439 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Jay Slosar, PhD, an author, educator, and clinical and forensic psychologist. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Slosar discuss how forensic psychology, social psychology, and other approaches can be leveraged in relation to suicide and deaths of despair, societal grief and trauma, psychosocial despair, "cumulative stress bombs", and even what Dr. Slosar refers to as "Capitalism Delusion Disorder" (CDD).
(Please note: If you, a patient, or someone you know is contemplating suicide, the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is now available by dialing 988.)
Jay Slosar, Ph.D. is an expert in clinical and forensic evaluations and psychotherapy. In private practice for 30 years as a licensed psychologist, Dr. Slosar has provided direct clinical and consulting services in a variety of diverse settings, including providing forensic evaluations from court referrals with a specialization in evaluating teenagers and young adults. He holds specialties in juvenile assessments and competency, high-conflict divorce, PTSD, perfectionism and law enforcement suicide, and developmental disabilities. Dr. Slosar also frequently serves as an expert witness and works as an adjunct university professor and California State Qualified Medical Examiner (QME).
Dr. Slosar has written and published professional materials and articles, including a staff training manual for residential treatment services. He has also presented a paper at the FBI Quantico training facility on perfectionism and its relationship to suicide in law enforcement personnel. He is the author of the book, The Culture of Excess: How America Lost Self Control and Why We Need to Redefine Success. From 1985 to 2019 he taught in both the psychology department and the health services department at Chapman University as an adjunct assistant associate professor.
Connect with Dr. Jay Slosar:

Slosar Consulting

LinkedIn

Articles by Dr. Jay Slosar:

Grieving and National Trauma: Thoughts from Clinicians and Therapists

Abrupt Suicide: Discourse with Clinicians, Experts, and Researchers

Capitalism Delusion Disorder

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media ringmaster and newsletter wrangler.

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Let’s Explore the Overall State of the Nursing Profession in 2023

On episode 438 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith welcomes back Dr. Iman Abuzeid, the CEO and founder of Incredible Health. During this in-depth conversation, Keith and Iman discuss Incredible Health's fourth annual report on the state of the nursing profession. With survey responses and data collected from over 3,000 nurses, the report reveals telling insights about what nurses are thinking and where the profession is heading. Some highlights from the study include:

80% of nurses plan to stay in field until retirement, up from 55% last year.

Mental wellness is no longer in decline, with nurses reporting a one-point increase from 25% in 2021 to 26% in 2023 of good mental health, following years of pervasive burnout and stress due to the pandemic. 

84% do not think the nursing industry is improving fast enough when it comes to addressing understaffing, burnout, and pay.

54% of those surveyed would continue to recommend a career in nursing.

48% of offers made on the Incredible Health platform included a sign-on bonus, up 14% over last year, pointing to health systems leveraging bonuses to bridge salary gaps. 

60% of nurses believe it is important to use social media as a nurse in today’s healthcare industry, with 77% of respondents saying it’s a source of community and support.

If you want to get a snapshot of the state of nursing in 2023, this conversation will provide much food for thought.
Dr. Iman Abuzeid is the Co-founder and CEO of Incredible Health, a career marketplace whose matching technology is the fastest, most effective way for hospitals to hire qualified permanent nurses. With Incredible Health, hospitals can hire nurses in less than 20 days versus a national average of 90 days. Backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, Incredible Health is on a mission to help healthcare professionals live better lives, and find and do their best work. Hundreds of leading hospitals across the country trust Incredible Health, including HCA, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Stanford Health Care, Baylor Scott & White and many more. Iman is a MD, and holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Connect with Dr. Iman Abuzeid and Incredible Health:

IncredibleHealth.com

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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How Employers Can Support Employees With Chronic Illness and Disabilities

On episode 437 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Julie Hamilton, a Certified Fibromyalgia Coach and Life Coach based in Arizona who helps professionals living with disabilities to maintain their career and regain their active social life.
In the course of their conversation, Keith and Julie discuss the lives of professionals living with disabilities, the legalities of what employees are not required to disclose about their health, and what employers are allowed to ask. Keith and Julie also discuss Julie's new book, Chronic Illness at Work: How Managers Can Support Employees with Chronic Illness.
With 20+ years of Human Resources Management/Director experience, Julie speaks from extenive experience on the employer side of the equation, and when she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2009, she knew what policies and laws to take advantage of to make her job work for her.
Connect with Julie Hamilton:

Julie's coaching website

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Chronic Illness at Work on Amazon

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Recovering From Traumatic Brain Injury With Fortitude, Grit, and Determination

On episode 436 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Kelly Tuttle, FNP, a neurology nurse practitioner and brain injury survivor. Her new book, "After the Crash: How to Keep Your Job, Stay in School, and Live Life After a Brain Injury" is a chronicle of Kelly's story along with advice on how to recover and thrive after a traumatic head injury.
Ms. Tuttle joined the “head injury survivors club” (as she described it) in 2015, the night another car pulled in front of her as she was driving. It wasn’t until three months later that she realized something was seriously wrong. Kelly’s traumatic brain injury (TBI) marked the beginning of a new life and personal journey of self-rediscovery.
A neurology nurse practitioner, Kelly has a front-row seat to observe patients struggling with many of the same things she experienced in her recovery. She strives to share her coping strategies and tools and help them continue to work and study while they heal. Kelly also wants TBI patients to know there is hope. She got better, and they can too.
Kelly is a member of the California Association for Nurse Practitioners, the California Association of Nurses/National Nurse United, and the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International. She earned her master of science in nursing from Gonzaga University and her bachelor of science in nursing from California State University, Fresno.
A longtime martial arts student, Kelly has a second-degree black belt in kenpō karate and a blue belt in Brazilian jujitsu. She is also an obsessed knitter without enough storage space for her yarn and a lover of adult coloring books and pencils.
Connect with Kelly Tuttle:

KellyTuttle.org

"After the Crash" on Amazon

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Why is American Healthcare Upside Down?

On episode 435 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Henry Buchwald, a world-renowned surgeon, author, professor, and patient healthcare advocate who contends that it's entirely possible for us to turn our broken healthcare system right-side up to serve the best interests of both patients and clinicians, now and in the future. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Buchwald focus on the statistics, revelations, and suggestions for positive change outlined in his brilliant and highly readable new book, "Healthcare Upside Down: A Critical Examination of Policy and Practice".
Dr. Henry Buchwald grew up in New York City, starting as a six-year-old helping to unload the daily catch of fish on the docks of Sheepshead Bay. After Columbia College, Medical School, and Internship, he served on flying status as the Base Flight Surgeon, Headquarters Strategic Air Command, now part of US Strategic Command, responsible with eleven other commands for strategic deterrence.
Subsequently, he completed surgical residency at the University of Minnesota, including research for inaugurating the partial ileal bypass operation to lower cholesterol levels; he was the Principal Investigator for the $65 million dollar Program on the Surgical Control of the Hyperlipidemias Trial that was the first trial to demonstrate that cholesterol lowering decreases atherosclerotic heart disease, prevents heart attacks and peripheral vascular disease, actually regresses coronary artery lesions, and increases life expectancy.
Dr. Buchwald stayed at the University of Minnesota for the rest of his career as Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, and the Owen H. and Sally Davidson Wangensteen Chair in Experimental Surgery. In his engineering endeavors, he was responsible for the invention for the first implantable drug infusion pump and the ubiquitous infusion port used by millions annually.
He lives on the outskirts of Minneapolis with his wife, Emilie. He spends his private time horseback riding, writing, running, and swimming. The Buchwalds have four daughters, who, with their husbands, for the most part, live close by, enabling Henry and Emilie to enjoy their six grandchildren.
Connect with Dr. Henry Buchwald

DrHenryBuchwald.com

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"Healthcare Upside Down" on Amazon

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Environmental Determinants of Health and Nutrient Security in Our Troubled World

On episode 434, of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Kat Morgan, a food systems expert and podcaster specializing in anthropology, environmental health, and communications. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Kat discuss the broader state of public health at this current time, environmental determinants of health, food systems, and the concept of nutrient security vs. food security.
A summa cum laude graduate of Emory University, Ms. Morgan holds a BA in cultural anthropology with a minor in global health. Kat addresses the intricate relationship between food systems, the environment, and health disparities.
As an exceptional communicator, Kat hosts two acclaimed public health podcasts, educating and inspiring audiences. She is currently pursuing a Master of Public Health at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health with a certificate in Food Systems and Public Health. Additionally, she contributes her skills and knowledge as a Global Food Portfolio Summer Associate at the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Kat Morgan's online portfolio

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Navigating the Pandemic podcast

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Twin Nurse Coaches on Living Your Best Life

On episode 433 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Sara and Anastasia Prech, BSN, RN, NC-BC, CCFP, CNOR, who are twin sisters, OR nurses, and board-certified transformative coaches for high-achieving nurses, nurse leaders, and nurse entrepreneurs. In the course of this fun and lively conversation, Keith and his delightful guests discuss life as twins, recovering from stress and burnout, finding optimal wellness and joy, and living your best possible life and career. They also discuss the delicious smell of fresh-basked croissants. Just sayin'.
Connect with Stacy and Sara Prech:

Live Well and Whole

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Nurse Blake Takes the Nurse Keith Show — and the World — by Storm

On episode 432 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews the one and only Nurse Blake! During the course of their conversation, Keith and Blake dig deep into how Blake became a world-renowned nurse touring comedian, educator, influencer, thought leader, and nurse cruise director/master of ceremonies extraordinaire who is an endless source of entertainment, education, and inspiration for nurses around the globe.
From an early age, Blake knew he wanted to be a nurse and started working as a patient transporter at 17. He graduated with a BSN in 2014 from UCF in Orlando Florida. As an advocate from the very beginning, he was also the President of the Florida Nursing Student Association. In 2013, Nurse Blake started Banned4Life to end the permanent FDA gay blood ban, which ultimately contributed to the lifetime ban being lifted in 2015.
Following nursing school, Nurse Blake worked in level 1 trauma centers around the country in a variety of nursing roles.
However, while in nursing school, Nurse Blake began creating Facebook videos as a way to de-stress and share his nursing experience in a comedic way. His videos went viral and connected nurses and nursing students together from around the world. He now takes his comedy to stages around the world bringing nurses together through his humor and inspiration. with over 120,000 tickets sold of his 2021-2022 PTO Comedy Tour, Nurse Blake is ready to hit the stage again with a whole new show this year hitting over 100 cities.
Connect with all things Nurse Blake:

NurseBlake.com

Nurse Blake's NurseCon and NurseCon at Sea

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Let’s Talk Medicine, Sports, and Podcasting With Our Doctor Friend

On episode 431 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Julia Bruene, sports medicine physician, podcaster, and physician to a number of Chicago-area professional sports teams. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Julie discuss vulnerability and authenticity in the practice of medicine, combating burnout, the intersection of podcasting and medicine, and much more.
Dr. Julia Bruene is a sports medicine physician at Midwest Orthopaedics at RUSH in Chicago, with special interests in acute and chronic orthopedic injuries, concussion management, care of female athletes, care of combat athletes, and special needs athletes. Undergrad bachelors degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Medical degree at Rush University Medical College, Chicago, IL. Family Medicine residency at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Illinois, then completed a fellowship in primary care sports medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. She is a team physician for the Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Red Stars and DePaul University. In her leisure time, Dr. Bruene co-hosts "Your Doctor Friends" pocast with Dr. Jeremy Alland.
Connect with Dr. Julie Breune:

Your Doctor Friends podcast

Your Doctor Friends Facebook group

Midwest Orthopaedics at RUSH

Instagram (Julia)

Instagram (Your Doctor Friends)

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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A Recovering Psychiatrist on Finding Your Authentic Self and an Optimal Path to Healing

On episode 430 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Fred Moss, a mental health advocate and "recovering psychiatrist" who serves in many capacities: keynote speaker, psychiatry expert witness, podcaster, mental health coach, and teacher. This wide-ranging conversation centers around Dr. Moss's contention that finding your authentic self, your true voice, and optimal healing is entirely possible, and the traditional route of psychiatric treatment is not the only path that can lead to psychological and spiritual wellness.
A desire to help people be real and heard has been the driving force leading Dr. Moss to multiple settings and roles as a psychiatrist over the years and compelling him to continually look for better, more effective ways to provide the highest quality care to align people with their most authentic self. He is the creator of Welcome To Humanity, The True Voice Course, Healing the Healer, and Global Madness.
As the founder of the Welcome to Humanity movement and the True Voice Mastermind and methodology, Dr. Fred now finds himself making the difference he came here to make. His years in the community, where he has been a physician to over 40,000 patients, and his storied and adventurous life traveling around the world has left him uniquely qualified to remind us of what we already know. Communication is where love arises from, and speaking the truth and listening authentically is the source of that love.
Dr. Fred is married to his dream partner, Alexandra, and lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas in Northern California. He is the proud father of two beautiful children in Texas and is owned collectively by his three cats, Valentino, Despacito, and Winston.
He is the author of "Creative 8 - Healing Through Creativity and Self-Expression" and "Find Your True Voice!". He has written many articles for Psychology Today. Also, he has won an award for the best essay at the 2019 Conference for Global Transformation, titled "Global Madness, What Must Happen to Unite.” Fred has also led many courses in True Voice Podcasting, taking people from zipped-lip to podcaster in 12 short weeks.

Connect with Dr. Fred Moss:

Welcome to Humanity

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

LinkedIn

Creative 8 download

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Finding Happiness and Nursing Career Fulfillment in the Non-Clinical Space

On episode 429 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Shira Page, RN, NP, CLC, the Medical Community Manager for Bobbie, an infant formula startup. In the course of their interview, Keith and Shira discuss how such a passionate and talented nurse practitioner was able to find happiness and career fulfillment in the non-clinical space, specifically the world of medical start-ups.
If you've ever had thoughts that perhaps you'd be more content in a non-clinical role where your nursing knowledge and expertise would still be the key to your success, this is a worthy conversation to hear.
Shira Page, RN, NP, CLC, is Bobbie’s Medical Community Manager. Her career has centered around improving the clinical care of people in their most challenging moments. She studied nutrition and dietetics, followed by a Masters in Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Her clinical expertise is in endocrinology, women’s health, and weight medicine. She worked as a nurse practitioner at Mount Auburn Hospital, focusing on endocrine concerns during pregnancy and postpartum.
After becoming a parent, she saw firsthand the challenges of infant feeding and became a certified lactation counselor (CLC). Shira served as a Medical Director at a continuing medical education (CME) company, designing clinician education to improve patient outcomes and now is the Medical Partnerships Manager at Bobbie, an infant formula startup. She lives outside of Boston with her husband and two daughters.
Connect with Shira Page and Bobbie:

HiBobbie.com

The Feeding Friendly Program

Facebook

Instagram

LinkedIn

TikTok

Shira on LinkedIn

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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The Fascinating Career Path of a Dedicated Nurse Scientist

On episode 428 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Danielle Sarik, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, a dedicated nurse scientist who shares the details of what the facsinating career trajectory of a nurse scientist is all about.
Danielle Altares Sarik, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC is a nurse scientist and pediatric nurse practitioner with expertise in health services and outcomes research. She has cared for patients in China, Botswana, and Nicaragua, in addition to the U.S.
Dr. Sarik's research focuses on healthcare evaluation, with a particular emphasis on factors impacting safety and health outcomes, healthcare delivery, and the nursing workforce. She is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, and a Health Policy and Media Fellow at the George Washington University. She is also an active member of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners and Institute of Pediatric Nursing.
Dr. Sarik loves connecting with nurses who are interested in starting research, building their evidence-based practice skillset, or exploring health policy issues.
Connect with Dr. Danielle Sarik:

Dr. Sarik's UPenn profile

Twitter

LinkedIn

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Let Goals, Grit, and Growth Catapult You Into a Brighter Future

On episode 427 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Miriam Zylberglait, MD — also known as Dr. Z — regarding her new book and philosophy centered around what she calls "The 3G Cycle of Life", which includes the triple concept of goals, grit, and growth as a framework for self-discovery and self-improvement.
Dr. Miriam Zylberglait Lisigurski is a triple Board Certified Physician in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Obesity Medicine with extensive clinical and academic experience. Dr. Z is interested in the areas of well-being, burnout, mental health, and leadership development.
Dr. Z completed a fellowship in Leadership Education and Development (AAMC), and certification as Mental Health Ally, and training as Physician Wellness Advocate. Dr. Z has been recognized for multiple achievements, including Mentor of the Year (AMWA 2021) and American College of Physicians Young Achiever (2017).
Originally from Peru, Dr. Z has two awesome sons, a caring husband, and a supportive family. Her dream is to help others achieve lives full of joy, meaning, and well-being.
Connect with Dr. Z:

The 3G Cycle of Life website

LinkedIn

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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The Journey From Successful and Talented Nurse to Successful and Talented Health Writer

On episode 426 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Janelle Barowski, MSN, RN, a talented and successful nurse who radically transformed her career and is now a talented and successful health writer. Her clients include Healthgrades and Haymarket, among others. She is fiercely passionate about helping nurses find a better work/life balance away from the bedside, and she offers coaching, mentoring programs, and an online course with that goal in mind.
Janelle lives in New Hampshire, and she can usually be found near a body of water on a warm day, or skiing down the steepest slopes in the dead of winter. You can connect with Janelle on LinkedIn, where she is a highly active and engaged member, as well as on her lovely website, Willow Bark Writing.
Connect with Janelle Barowski:

Willow Bark Writing

LinkedIn

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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The Latest Developments in Psychedelic Medicine

On episode 425 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith welcomes back Andrew Penn, MS, PMHNP to discuss the latest news in the study of the therapeutic uses of psychedelics. Among the topics discussed by Keith and Andrew are updates regarding the state of the research and the pending FDA approval of both MDMA (aka: Molly or Ecstacy) and psilocybin for the treatment of various psychological conditions, and well as how nurses may end up fitting into the psychedelic treatment paradigm.
Andrew Penn, MS, PMHNP is a Clinical Professor in the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing where his teaching has received the UCSF Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award, among other recognitions. He has practices as a psychiatric/mental health nurse practitioner, treating veterans and training residents at the San Francisco Veterans Administration Hospital.
As a researcher, Andrew collaborates on psychedelic studies of psilocybin and MDMA in the Translational Psychedelics Research (TrPR) lab at UCSF, serving as Co-PI on a phase 2 study of psilocybin for depression and is currently working on a study using psilocybin to treat depression in patients with Parkinson’s disease.
A leading voice in nursing, he is a cofounder of the Organization of Psychedelic and Entheogenic Nurses, advocating for the perspective of nurses in psychedelic therapy, he has published on psychedelics in the American Journal of Nursing, Frontiers in Psychiatry, and The Journal of Humanistic Psychotherapy.
An internationally invited speaker, he has lectured at SXSW, Aspen Health Ideas Festival, the Singapore Ministry of Health, and Oxford University, and can be found at Andrewpennnp.com.

Connect with Andrew Penn

AndrewPennNP.com

LinkedIn

OPENurses on Facebook

OPENurses website

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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What Does it Mean to be an Unstoppable RN?

On episode 424 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Chuck Jankowski, RN, BSN, CCRN, TCRN, CEN, a thirteen-year RN with experience in critical care, trauma, ED, and rapid response team nursing.
During the pandemic, Chuck crossed the country, providing federal relief to hospitals that were overwhelmed by patient load or strained due to staffing crises. In those hospitals, Chuck saw new grad and novice nurses tossed feet first into highly acute, critical care situations, with no senior nurses available or few able to toss them a lifeline when they were overwhelmed.
Now, working as a professional development instructor, Chuck mentors new grad RNs in their first year of practice. He developed the UnstoppableRN program to give new grads the skills they need not just to survive but to thrive in their first year of practice and build a strong foundation for their careers. The UnstoppableRN brand includes its signature cruise for nurses.
Chuck also serves on a Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) in the US Department of Health and Human Services National Disaster Medical System. Prior to, and early in his nursing career, he was a firefighter and later a Lieutenant in the Fire Department of the City of New York.

Connect with Chuck Jankowski and Unstoppable RN:

Icon Education Services

The Unstoppable RN Cruise

Facebook

Instagram

LinkedIn

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Championing a “High Tech High Touch” Approach to Nursing Research and Education

On episode 423 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, Dean and Professor of the Florida State University College of Nursing, and Adjunct Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Wang discuss the future of health and healthcare and how Florida State University College of Nursing is leading in this area. Other topics include the future of aging in place, the use of wearable tech, and the concept of a “high tech high touch” approach to nursing research and education.
Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN is Dean and Professor of the Florida State University College of Nursing, and Adjunct Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Public Health at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She serves as the Board of Trustee at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and HCA Florida Capitol Hospital. She’s committed to nursing workforce development and High Tech High Touch approach in nursing education, research, and collaborative practice. Her interdisciplinary research uses mobile and connected health technologies to optimize multiple-behavior lifestyle interventions and improve patient-centered outcomes among the chronically ill and aging populations with multiple chronic conditions, especially among the rural and underserved populations.
Dr. Wang is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, 2013 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar, 2015 TEDMED Scholar, 2016 Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Macy Faculty Scholar, and Harvard Macy Scholar where she continues to teach in the “Leading Innovations in Health Care & Education” program in the Harvard Macy Institute.
As a Health and Aging Policy Fellow and American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, she was a Senior Scientific Advisor to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), and works with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as a senior policy advisor.
Wang received her MSN and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, her MPH from its Graduate School of Public Health, and Graduate Certificate in Clinical and Translational Science from its School of Medicine.
Connect with Dr. Jing Wang and Florida State University School of Nursing:

Florida State University College of Nursing

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

LinkedIn

Dr. Wang on LinkedIn

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Dr. Candy Campbell: Nurse Polymath at Large

On episode 422 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Candy Campbell, DNP, RN, CNL, CVP, LNC, FNAP. Dr. Campbell is a lifelong nurse, author, consultant, filmmaker, and award-winning actress. Her background in nursing includes clinical, academic, and administrative posts. As an actress, she has appeared on stage, screen, in commercials, voice-overs, TV — you name it.
Dr. Campbell was the co-founder of an improv and stand-up comedy group and has taught improv to all ages, stages, and types of businesses since the mid-1990’s. She is also the author of Improv to Improve Healthcare: A System for Creative Problem-Solving.
Her third solo show, An Evening With Florence Nightingale: A Reluctant Celebrity, has been seen by audiences in four countries (so far). Candy has appeared on many media networks speaking on nursing and healthcare topics. Her articles have appeared in online and peer-reviewed publications. As a nurse consultant, she works with corporate and individual healthcare clients to achieve peak performance cultures and success.
Connect with Dr. Candy Campbell:

CandyCampbell.com

Florence Nightingale Live

Channeling Florence Nightingale on Facebook

Twitter

LinkedIn

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Leveraging Women’s Empowerment to Benefit Health and Well-Being

On episode 421 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Anna Stoecklein, RN, a registered nurse turned podcaster, and the founder, producer, and host of The Story of Woman podcast. Anna has a passion for people and telling stories that help us understand and connect with one another more deeply and authentically.
The Story of Woman podcast features interviews by exploring our world through the female gaze. From the economy, healthcare, gender roles and more, each episode dives deep into where we are on the long march to equality, how we got here, and what still needs to be changed. Past guests have included Hillary Rodham Clinton, Cherie Blair, Lindsey Vonn, Alicia Garza, and many more. 
Connect with Anna Stoecklein:

The Story of Woman Podcast

Facebook

Instagram

Twitter

TikTok

The Story of Woman on LinkedIn

Anna on LinkedIn

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Tracking and Responding to the Mental and Physical Well-Being of Healthcare Employees

On episode 420 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Chris Turner and Josh Bokor, the CEO and Chief of Staff, respectively, of HealthBook+, "a simple-to-use digital-first care platform that guides an individual’s next best health action using advanced AI while keeping their data private and secure. HealthBook+ identifies potential conditions early on and facilitates access to healthcare screening and services through secure chats, peer coaching, and education."
Can healthcare employers accurately and unobtrusively help their employees to track their own health in a way that's private, completely confidential, and secure? Let's find out.
Connect with Josh Bokor, Chris Turner, and Healthbook+:

Healthbookplus.com

Facebook

LinkedIn

Josh Bokor on LinkedIn

Chris Turner on LinkedIn

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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A Nurse Inventor and Entrepreneur Creates Nursing Tools That Matter

On episode 419 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Paul Castaneda, RN, CCRN, a 25-year veteran ICU nurse who is also the Founder of NursingTools.com. Nurses are natural problem-solvers, and if they have the chance to create practical tools that solve real-world problems, everyone wins.
It all started in June of 2017. Paul had become frustrated looking for tools specifically for nurses to use at the bedside, and he noticed that medical-surgical, ICU, ER, NICU, and other nurses were always borrowing instruments and modifying medical equipment in order to get simple tasks done.
So Paul decided to designed scissors that could "cradle" ports and effortlessly unfasten stubborn connections that seal themselves from protein-based medications. 
Nursing Tools currently sells on Amazon and their website, periodically adding other products that are born from bedside innovation and necessity. 

Connect with Paul Castaneda and Nursing Tools:

NursingTools.com

Facebook

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Healing Politics One Nurse at a Time

On episode 418 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Kimberly Gordon, DNP, CRNA, an accountant turned nurse who is the co-founder of Healing Politics, a non-profit organization on a mission to inspire, motivate, recruit, and train nurses and midwives to run for elected office while building a culture of civic engagement within the professions.
Ms. Gordon earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration from John Carroll University in Ohio. After working seven years in various cost accounting and managerial positions, she chose to pursue a career in nursing and then nurse anesthesia. Kimberly graduated with a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in nursing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She completed her Doctor of Nursing practice at Yale University where she and a colleague developed the first-of-its-kind Campaign School for Nurses and Midwives.
As mentioned above, Kimberly is the co-founder of Healing Politics, a non-profit organization on a mission to inspire, motivate, recruit, and train nurses and midwives to run for elected office while building a culture of civic engagement within the professions.
She is an adjunct faculty member teaching health policy and leadership at the Wake Forest School of Medicine and Western Carolina University. She practices anesthesia per diem for Novant Health in Winston Salem, North Carolina.
Kimberly has always been involved in the nursing profession. First, in the NC Nurses Association, then the NC Association of Nurse Anesthetists, and most recently as a board member of Healthcare Providers for Greater Access and the Government Relations Chair for the NC Organization of Nurse Leaders. She loves talking about nursing leadership, professionalism, and political involvement with anyone who will listen. Kimberly wishes that every nurse understood the powerful impact that they have on their communities, colleagues, and the healthcare system. She believes that nurses working together could, quite literally, change the world.      
Connect with Kimberly Gordon and Healing Politics:

Healing Politics website

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Understanding the Power, Benefits, and Career Potential of Apharesis and Blood Collection

On episode 417 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Lori Harada, BSN, RN, the Senior Manager of the Technical Excellence Team of Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies. With her vast knowledge of blood transfusion and related products in the industry, Lori provides unique insight and understanding of the fascinating world of apharesis, blood collection, and transfusion. In the course of the episode, Lori shares a deeply personal story, as well as the story of her career, both of which can serve as sources of inspiration for nurses seeking a pathway to new directions for their nursing journey.
Lori Harada is the senior manager for the Technical Excellence team at Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies. She has almost 40 years of nursing experience with 35 years in apheresis practice and the industry. Lori manages a team of 12 Specialists that provide education and support for both the Spectra Optia and Trima Accel apheresis devices.
In her 35 years of experience, Lori has held positions from apheresis operator, clinical trainer, sales and marketing. But her true love is education. Seeing a new operator catch the passion of treating patients with apheresis is what brings joy to Lori, as well as instilling knowledge in her specialists so that they share that passion of improving patients' lives.
Lori is seen as a leader in the industry and has moderated several webinars for ASFA and ASPHO. In her free time, Lori enjoys living in Colorado where she skis, hikes, and plays golf.

Connect with Elisa Collins and Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies

Lori Harada on LinkedIn

Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies on LinkedIn

Lori's interview on the Mastering Medical Device podcast

Lori's interview on the Radio Health Journal podcast

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Nurse Practitioners and the Field of Legal Nurse Consulting

On episode 416 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Elisa Collins, FNP-C, NP-CLP, a nurse practitioner, podcaster, and legal nurse consultant who is on a mission to convince nurse practitioners that they are ideal candidates for the legal nurse consultant role. Do you think that only RNs can serve as LNCs? Think again!
Elisa is the primary founder and Chief Executive Officer at Discovery NP Legal Consultants. Elisa has been an RN Since 2003 and worked primarily in that capacity in stepdown-ICU and inpatient cardiology. She went on to obtain her Masters in Nursing in 2013 and has worked in that capacity as an outpatient provider of sleep medicine, weight loss, and geriatric wellness.
Since becoming an NP, Elisa developed an interest in providing nurse consulting for the legal profession and began providing those services in 2018.
Elisa developed the versatile cloud-based collaborative real-time work product that is used at Discovery NP Legal Consultants and is the primary mentor, educator, and broker of services at Discovery NP Legal Consultants. In 2021, Elisa recruited and gathered a team of 12 clinicians including advanced practiced registered nurses to offer a broader range of services to her clientele and to expand services nationwide.
Based in Boise, Idaho, Elisa lives with her husband and cares for both her mother-in-law and her own two children, one of whom is medically fragile. The family enjoys vacationing when they get the chance, and watching movies together. Elisa also has a Masters in Psychology with an emphasis in life coaching, and she and her husband are currently co-authoring a personal development self-help book. Elisa enjoys the freedom and flexibility that consulting for the legal profession has afforded. She is the host of the MedMal podcast.
Connect with Elisa Collins:

Discovery NP Legal Nurse Consultants

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The MedMal Podcast

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Emerging as an Inspired and Empowered Healthcare Professional

On episode 415 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Olayinka Olaitan Aremu, MScN, PgDE, RN, RM, RPHN, a nurse mentor, coach, and serial entrepreneur on a mission to educate, elevate, empower, and inspire healthcare professionals to be the very best version of themselves possible.
Affectionately referred to as Nurse Coach Ola, Ms. Aremu is a registered nurse, midwife, and public health nurse, and has served as a Clinical Nurse Manager with over 11 years of experience in nursing education, community health, and clinical practice. Olayinka is currently undergoing her Ph.D at Trinity College Dublin where she is developing a nurse-led care transition tool to improve discharge communication and care transition of older patients.
Olayinka is particularly passionate about ensuring smooth care transitions for the vulnerable older population and is a postgraduate research champion in evidence-based nursing practice both in acute and community settings at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin, Ireland.
As a nurse entrepreneur, Olayinka has a great zest for innovative developments in nursing practice. She is the Executive Director/Lead Mentor of the Nurse Mentorship Academy, a virtual platform that guides, inspires, and supports young nurses and aspiring healthcare professionals to achieve rewarding careers. Certified in professional coaching and public speaking, she has hosted several in-person and virtual health conferences and career development programs.
A workplace advocate for internationally educated nurses and the Presiding President of the Association of Nigerian Nurses in Ireland, Olayinka is now in the process of becoming a globally recognized author, her most recent book being the recently published Emerge as a HealthPro,

Connect with Olayinka Aremu:

NCO Healthcare Consulting

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Trauma-Informed Care and Building Resilience with Dr. Amy King

On episode 414 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Amy King, a licensed psychologist, keynote speaker, consultant, and podcaster who provides training, consultation, and education to professionals who work with children and families.
Dr. Amy also offers The Providers Lounge, a learning collaborative and community of like-minded medical professionals focusing on building resilience in their patients and themselves.
Among Dr. Amy's specialties is working with parents and professionals to help create resilient children and thriving families, guiding them to heal their stress and trauma through connected relationships. Her experience includes serving as a statewide trainer for the Oregon Department of Human Services and subject matter expert to promote child wellness in pediatric settings on behalf of the Children's Health Alliance. Her current work is promoting resilience within pediatric medical homes and school systems through partnership and collaboration.
Her podcast, The Most Important Medicine, is where physicians and healthcare professionals meet to discuss what trauma is and how it presents in primary care. Discussions center around how to respond to and mitigate trauma by building resilience and other buffering mechanisms that address adversity and build connection. Physicians and healthcare providers tell their stories about how to bring humanness into medicine and transform how we think about medicine through relational leadership, early relational health, and connection.
When she’s not working to promote family resilience, you can find Dr. Amy with her family on their small hobby farm in Newberg, Oregon.
Connect with Dr. Amy:

DrAmyLLC.com

The Most Important Medicine Podcast

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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When a Nurse Educator Becomes a Viral Sensation

On episode 413 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Stephanee Beggs, BSN, RN, the celebrity content creator, influencer, and emergency room nurse behind RNExplained, Inc. Stephanee unintentionally went viral on social media for her quick, concise educational tools featured in her TikTok videos and sold on her Etsy store. In fact, some of her TikTok videos have reached over 1 million views! Her videos, guides, and tools help nurses around the world learn important clinical concepts that are distilled into digestible chunks that enhance learning and retention.
Stephanee's success has caught the attention of national news outlets, and she was chosen as one of Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 young entrepreneurs in 2022.
Aside from her time on social media and Etsy, Stephanee is an ER nurse with two degrees: a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and a Bachelor of Science in Business Marketing. Her current certifications include ACLS, BLS, PALS, NIHSS, and MAB. Lastly, she is a professor at Mount Saint Mary’s University focusing on classes in pharmacology.

Connect with Stephanee and RNExplained:

RNExplained on Etsy

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Increasing the Cultural Competence and Sensitivity of Healthcare Professionals

On episode 412 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Raj Sundar, a full-spectrum family physician, podcaster, and community organizer. In the course of their conversation, Raj and Keith discuss the difference between cultural competence and cultural safety, where cultural competence falls short, and how healthcare professionals can increase their competence in the interest of their patients' well-being and cultural safety.
Dr. Sundar is the host of Healthcare for Humans, a podcast dedicated to educating others on how to care for culturally diverse communities in order to become more effective healers. He works with others to create systems that treat each person with dignity while respecting their histories, celebrating their joys, and honoring their hopes.

Connect with Dr. Raj Sundar, MD and the Healthcare for Humans podcast:

Healthcare for Humans

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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The European Perspective on 21st-Century Healthcare Innovation and Emerging Technologies

On episode 411 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews French biomedical engineer and podcaster Mathieu Chaffard, regarding Mathieu's podcast — Impulse: Meeting Healthcare Pioneers — and his perspective on the European zeitgeist when it comes to healthcare innovation and emerging technologies in the 21st century.
Mathieu is a French biomedical engineer, trained at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Passionate about medical technology applied to cardiac indications, he has occupied different technical roles in Europe, including Development Engineer for B. Braun in Berlin and Field Specialist for Abbott in Paris, before moving to project management in the digital health space for Roche Diagnostics in Zürich.
Wishing to share his passion for medical progress on a broad scale and driven by an ongoing desire to learn more about its aspects, he has decided to create his own show where he talks with entrepreneurs, researchers and physicians about their personal journey and the innovative technologies they are developing to transform patients' lives.
Connect with Mathieu:

Impulse: Meeting Healthcare Pioneers podcast

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Medical Injustices, Distrust, Disparities, and Black Communities

On episode 410 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Camille White and Jasmyn Moore, the hosts of the Distrust & Disparities Podcast.
In the course of their conversation, Keith, Jasmyn, and Camille discuss their powerful podcast which examines current and historical cases of medical injustices within the American healthcare system and how these disparities and injustices have disproportionately impacted Black communities around the country for hundreds of years.
Jasmyn Moore is a registered nurse and health care change maker, who is passionate about dismantling health disparities that disproportionately affect Black women and Black families. She has a wide variety of clinical experience, including community health, emergency & trauma, nursing education, and case management. Working with underserved communities inspired her to create the Distrust & Disparities podcast to provide a voice to those negatively impacted by medical injustices in the American healthcare system. She wants to inspire individuals to advocate for proper healthcare treatment for themselves and educate health professionals on how to check their racial bias.
Camille White is a fierce health advocate and spirited co-host of Distrust & Disparities podcast. She is a Human Resources specialist with a focus on government contracts and minority owned businesses. Her interest in addressing health disparities was sparked after hearing about the countless number of Black women dying in childbirth and the inadequate response to address Black maternal mortality in the US. She wants to fight to bring more attention to this injustice and close the gap on health disparities.
Podcast Bio:
We are two Black women discussing health disparities that disproportionately affect Black women and Black families. We examine current and historical cases of medical injustices within the American healthcare system. And we amplify organizations and individuals working with marginalized communities to improve health outcomes. Tune in every 1st and 3rd Friday to hear how disadvantaged communities navigate a healthcare system not designed for them and the organizations working to close disparity gaps.
Connect with Camille, Jasmyn, and Distrust & Disparities:

Distrust & Disparities website

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Creating a Trained Student Workforce to Solve Healthcare Shortages and Inequities

On episode 409 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Eric Alvarez, the CEO and Founder of Grapefruit Health, a company that is creating a brand new student-led workforce to help meet the significant shortage of healthcare workers today.
In the course of their conversation, Keith and Eric discuss clinician shortages, lack of access to care, and other challenges within the healthcare space that led to the founding of Grapefruit Health and its unique and innovative solutions to those challenges.
Prior to this adventure with Grapefruit Health, Eric has held multiple positions within the healthcare industry. Most recently Eric was the COO of a healthcare technology startup called Fibroblast, which was acquired by the EMR giant Cerner Corporation in 2020. In this role, he oversaw product, development, human resources, finance, general company operations, and was active in all major sales cycles.
Before joining Fibroblast, Eric was a hospital administrator at the University of Chicago Medicine and Northwestern Medicine. In these roles, he led large clinical and nonclinical teams mostly in specialty services that included the services lines of Cardiovascular surgery, Urology, and Ophthalmology. These opportunities provided Eric with a deep understanding of how health systems function as a business and what their systemic challenges are.
Eric earned his Masters in Healthcare Administration from Rush University, a top five program, and his Bachelors in Aviation Management from Southern Illinois University, a top ten program. Prior to college, he served in the United States Airforce during Iraqi Freedom. Most recently, Eric was named a top 100 Rising LatinX founder and Distinguished Alumni of the Year from his Master’s program.
Connect with Eric Alvarez and Grapefruit Health:

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Did you know that you can now earn CEUs from listening to podcasts? That’s right — over at RNegade.pro, they’re building a library of nursing podcasts offering continuing education credits, including episodes of The Nurse Keith Show! So just head over to RNegade.pro, log into the portal, select Nurse Keith (or any other Content Creator) from the Content Creator dropdown, and get CEs for any content on the platform!
Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Can Nurses Choose to Feed — and Not Eat — Their Young?

On episode 408 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews nurse leader and consultant Teresa Sanderson, RN, CCM, the founder of the Nurses Feed Their Young (NFTY) movement.
In the course of their conversation, Keith and Teresa discuss the concept of nurses feeding, rather than eating, their young, and why this is so crucial for the future of the profession. Keith and Teresa also discuss the importance of infusing the nursing profession with emotional intelligence in order to decrease burnout, increase nurse retention, and improve the patient experience.
A veteran RN and nursing leader with three decades of experience, Teresa Sanderson leads with authenticity and the heart of a servant. She believes nursing leadership is responsible for creating a culture and environment where nurses can succeed and practice with excellence. Teresa is working to transform nursing culture from one where nurses eat their young to one where nurses feed their young, She trains healthcare organizations, nursing leaders, and nurses on the skills of emotional intelligence, as well as values-based hiring, recruitment, and retention strategies. Sanderson is an author, speaker, nurse entrepreneur and homesteader.
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TeresaSanderson.com

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Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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How to Be a Visionary 21st-Century Healthcare Leader

On episode 407 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Certified Executive Coach Ronnie Kinsey, BSN, RN, MBA about how to be a visionary 2121st-century healthcare leader who can readily identify what's right, as well as what needs to change.
Ronnie Kinsey, BSN, RN, MBA is well-credentialed as a seasoned clinician and healthcare leader with a breadth of experience in highly recognized academic and specialty medical centers, as well as in the corporate arena.
Mr. Kinsey has made it his life mission to understand what is right with healthcare. Beyond events in early life calling him into a career in healthcare, he planned to experience working in several dynamic workplaces and well-developed healthcare systems in order to learn, grow, and make the best impact wherever possible. He is quick to share that he has had a fascinating career and an exciting life built around those opportunities in diverse geographic locations.
Ronnie is eager to share valuable insights about the transitions that have affected the roles and responsibilities of nurses over time. He began his nursing journey with paper charting when computers were not nurses' concern. Observing the wave of electronic charting crashing quickly toward the clinical setting, Ronnie quickly signed up to be part of planning and launching these systems so that he could understand how he and his own nursing practice were going to be personally impacted by them, as well as how healthcare would evolve as a result.
Having seen several public health emergencies over the course of his career, Ronnie has observed that many have involved a virus of some kind. From his perspective, COVID — coupled with short staffing, overwhelm at the bedside, divisive public beliefs about the pandemic, and increased administrative responsibilities laid upon the shoulders of hard-working clinicians — has by far been the single most disruptive event impacting nursing and healthcare since his career began.
Ronnie remains optimistic regarding the opportunity to improve the nursing, clinician, and healthcare experience with an eye toward the goal of manageable value-based outcomes. He is focused on leadership and executive coaching that has the power to develop and support bold, informed leaders who can lead us on the path to sustainable solutions to the outsized concerns seen in healthcare and leadership today.

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RonnieKinsey.net

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Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Nursing, Healthcare, and Nursing Academia

On episode 406 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Dr. Donna Nickitas, Ph.D, RN, NEA-BC, CNE, FNAP, FAAN, the Dean of the Rutgers School of Nursing-Camden. In the course of their conversation, Keith and Dr. Nickitas take a deep dive into issues surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion (aka: "D.E.I.") and how these issues must be addressed in both nursing academia and the wider nursing and healthcare spheres.
Dr. Donna M. Nickitas, Ph.D, RN, NEA-BC, CNE, FNAP, FAAN is the Dean of the Rutgers School of Nursing-Camden, as well as the Executive Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs and Interim Provost. She is a member of the Chancellor’s Executive Cabinet and a member of the university’s Executive Vice President’s Academic Affairs Committee.
Dr. Nickitas assumed the deanship in July 2018 after a distinguished career at the City University of New York’s Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing and The Graduate Center, where she was a professor, the executive officer of the nursing science Ph.D. program, and served previously as the former specialty coordinator of the dual degree in nursing administration/public administration.
 A retired major in the U.S. Air Force Nurse Reserve Corps, Dr. Nickitas previously served as assistant director of maternal-child health nursing at Bellevue Medical Center in New York and as a staff nurse in the labor and delivery unit at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. She is an exceptional administrator, a noted health policy scholar, and an energetic visionary regarding the future of health care and nursing education in America.
Dr. Nickitas believes wholeheartedly that nurses serve society and do public good by advancing health, driving public policy, and promoting access to quality, patient-centered care. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of peer-reviewed books related to the nursing profession.
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Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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Understanding Nurse Practitioner Liability in the 21st Century

On episode 405 of The Nurse Keith Show nursing and healthcare career podcast, Keith interviews Jennifer Flynn, CPHRM, the Vice President of Risk Management for Nurses Service Organization (NSO). In the course of their conversation, Keith and Jennifer dig deep into NSO's recent malpractice claims report for nurse practitioners, and provide clarity about the top allegations against NPs, the average cost of such claims, and the main drivers of malpractice claims and and license complaints. If you want to protect your license, this information is crucial to understand.
Jennifer Flynn, CPHRM, is Vice President of Risk Management for Nurses Service Organization in the Healthcare Division of Aon’s Affinity Insurance Services, Inc. Specializing in risk management and having worked in the healthcare insurance business for over 22 years, Jennifer is dedicated to educating nurses and health care professionals on professional liability risks and offers strategies to mitigate those risks by supporting patient safety principles and developing quality management programs. In addition to being a frequent national speaker on healthcare risk and liability, Jennifer is also a published author on various risk management topics. Jennifer is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management and is a licensed Property & Casualty agent. She earned a BA in Psychology from Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania.

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Nurse Keith is a holistic career coach for nurses, professional podcaster, published author, award-winning blogger, inspiring keynote speaker, and successful nurse entrepreneur. Connect with Nurse Keith at NurseKeith.com, and on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Nurse Keith lives in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico with his lovely fiancée, Shada McKenzie, a highly gifted traditional astrologer and reader of the tarot. You can find Shada at The Circle and the Dot.
The Nurse Keith Show is a proud member of The Health Podcast Network, one of the largest and fastest-growing collections of authoritative, high-quality podcasts taking on the tough topics in health and care with empathy, expertise, and a commitment to excellence. The podcast is adroitly produced by Rob Johnston of 520R Podcasting, and Mark Capispisan is our stalwart social media manager and newsletter wrangler.

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