Once a Nurse, Always a Nurse
169 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsThere are SO many issues in healthcare that impact medical/nursing providers and patients alike, but each of them may not see the connections to themselves. This show will be a forum for nurses to tell stories about their own experiences, whether professional or family-focused and guests will inspire conversation on health and nursing-related topics. Issues will vary from communication in healthcare to current issues, such as nurse/patient ratios, dealing with conflict, how to create cooperative workplaces, speed-reading people, as nursing strikes and much more. Government policies are creating a major shift for all healthcare providers as well as their patients. We, as nurses, will be creating the future healthcare paradigms as we move forward, becoming a crucial part of the solutions. “Once a Nurse, Always a Nurse: Exploring the World of Nursing” is broadcast live every Monday at 10 AM Pacific Time on the VoiceAmerica’s Health and Wellness Channel.
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Healing the Moral Wounds of the Pandemic
March 22, 2021 07:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBThe CVOID-19 pandemic has left physical, psychological and moral wounds for nurses who have sacrificed so much to provide care to patients and their families. Some healthcare workers describe symptoms similar to PTSD: having panic attacks, difficulty sleeping, unable to eat or eating too much, exhaustion, tearful, and reliving the tragedies they have witnessed. There is a name for this, which also brings the good news that it can be relieved. My guest in this important episode is Dr. Cynda H...
NURSES: Could You Use Some Love and Light?
March 15, 2021 07:00 - 54 minutes - 4.51 MBI hear from nurses/HC workers daily. I hear the incredible things you do to help patients & families under your care in COVID & Non-COVID units; there are stories of love for co-workers, exhaustion, rage; efforts to lighten the load of each other & mind-numbing, heart-aching memories. I hear your doubts about yourself & your abilities under these unrelenting experiences. Who wouldn’t? Do you just want to rest your mind & hearts—to feel LOVE and see LIGHT ahead of you? It has been my dream for...
Nurses Everywhere: Dr. Ernest Grant/ Dr. Tim Raderstorf
March 08, 2021 08:00 - 53 minutes - 4.51 MBWe have the honor of welcoming Dr. Ernest Grant, President of ANA and Dr. Tim Raderstorf, the Chief Innovation Officer at The Ohio State University College of Nursing to Once a Nurse. The two collaborated on the Nurses Everywhere Website, which is exactly what it says: a thank you and dedication to the work, love, commitment, knowledge and experience of the Nurses of America. We have a LOT to talk about: COVID, Vaccines, Needs of Nurses and commitment of nursing organizations to put nurses FR...
Nurse-Led Integrative Medicine
March 01, 2021 08:00 - 53 minutes - 4.51 MBThere is a new wave of healthcare coming to the forefront of medicine and my 3 guests are among the first to ride that wave. It is called Integrative Medicine and is being practiced by Advanced Practice nurses across the country. Kim Evans, APRN, RN is the founder of Integrative Medicine in Louisville, KY, Pam McDonald, IMNP, is founder of Penscott Corporation, and Mary Ann Osborne, DNP, FNP is the Owner of the Institute for Integral Health. These three dynamic women are here to discuss what ...
Revisioning The Image of Nursing
February 22, 2021 08:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBPost COVID, Nurses must recreate ourselves! We have more, or less, accepted the roles others and Media have portrayed us as. We are FAR more than that! My guest, Ann Scanlon McGinity is a decades-long model of Nursing Leadership, who continues to vibrantly move the role of nurses forward. In this Episode, we will share a DYNAMIC conversation on necessary changes nurses must make for our future reinvention. Let us look at Nurses’ current image. What image would TRULY do justice to who and what...
The Power of Words in a Mentally Healthy Workplace Culture
February 15, 2021 08:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBOne of the MOST difficult and most HEALING things a human being can do is to speak about their own “secrets.” Have we ALL grown up believing that we are the only ones who have them and that revealing these truths will destroy us? Just about everyone I know would answer “Yes” to that question. The irony is that it is those who do tell the truth and then seek help, healing and a “maskless” life going forward, are truly the ones released from those demon secrets. My Guest, Kim LaMontagne, has no...
How and Why 4.6 Million Nurses Can Heal America
February 08, 2021 08:00 - 56 minutes - 4.51 MBMuch has been written over the past 30 years about Nurses Eating their Young. It has been debated up, down and sideways. My guest, Kathleen Bartholomew, MN, RN decided to do something to stop it. She and two colleagues, Dr. Martha Griffin and Arna Robins, wrote a book called, “The Dauntless Nurse: Communication Confidence Builder.” The book is a NO nonsense look at the reality of sometimes severe Nurse-to-Nurse Hostility. It Exists! It is Devastating to nurses and healthy care of patients! It...
Cortex Method Stress Management: Helping Nurses Stay in the Fight
February 01, 2021 08:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBWhat is the cost to Healthcare for not listening to nurses in 2020-21? If Healthcare organizations in the World think they have had problems with turnover in the past, they have not seen ANYTHING yet. My Guest, Melissa Cortez, BSN is a very experienced nurse in high-risk areas. After traveling in the USA as a COVID ICU nurse and seeing the trauma, exhaustion and demoralization of nurses, she decided to share her practice of evidence-based Mindfulness to stimulate personal energy in the middle...
Encore Transforming Healthcare: Nurses Required
January 25, 2021 08:00 - 54 minutes - 4.51 MBOur Healthcare system is broken. In fact, we do not have healthcare in this country—we have disease care. We wait until you get sick and then try to fix you, easily the most inefficient and expensive form of “healthcare” in the world. Yet, we CAN truly transform healthcare. Each of us will interact with our healthcare system, whether for our families or ourselves. Let’s conscientiously create a system, based on science, research and experience, that we can each be proud of and that we would f...
Let it Flow: How Fundamental Courage and Character Prevails
January 18, 2021 08:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBThis is Brian Mohika’s 2nd episode on Once a Nurse. He first appeared on December 30, 2019 to talk about his persistent and committed work as an entrepreneur to invent, sew, market and gain a small foothold in medical equipment with his Cathwear underwear for men and women who wear Foleys, Suprapubic, Biliary, and Nephrostomy catheters. As he watched the stress, embarrassment & frustration of individuals, who must wear leg catheters continuously, he designed CathWear to allow safe, clean, su...
Nurses Hold The Key to An Empowered Workforce
January 11, 2021 08:00 - 56 minutes - 4.51 MBNurses are the bedrock of healthcare around the world. Without Nurses there is NO Healthcare (HC). While doctors & every HC provider contributes to the value of HC, it is nurses who are with the patient 24/7, best know the client & family and make the directives of other departments work for the patient. Nurses are are mandated to prevent injury & disease/ advocate for the patient. They want to focus on community-based education to prevent stress-related diseases. My guest, Glennae Davis, BSN...
Nurses’ Personal Finances 2021: What you need to know!
January 04, 2021 08:00 - 50 minutes - 4.51 MB2021 is a NEW Year and New Economic landscape. Nurses have been hit hard in some Countries, States & Counties and others have been working overtime without days off. My own experience was I knew next to nothing about managing my finances except: “Save as much as you can!” I put it in a bank savings account for years. Then I discovered Universal Life Insurance & was able to borrow from it to finance 4 houses & 6 cars. Next was stocks, bonds and more. My Guest, Dan Dorval is President and CEO o...
Braver Angels: Reaching Across the Divide
December 28, 2020 08:00 - 54 minutes - 4.51 MBMy guests have come to the same place, Braver Angels, from VERY different directions. Dr. William (Bill) Doherty from Academia at the U of MN where he currently directs The Citizen Professional Center and cofounded the Braver Angels following the 2016 National Election, in an effort to allow members of both vitriolic parties (Democrat and Republican) come together in a safe environment to learn how to listen to one another. David S. Ball found the organization over 1 year later after 26 years...
“I Can Never Unsee, What I Have Seen.”
December 21, 2020 08:00 - 56 minutes - 4.51 MBMy guest, Darlene Nelson, RN, founder of Expert Nurse Consultants, joined me on this show on April 13th along with Dr. Juan Nieto, ED physician. The description I gave then, STILL fits. “In the COVID-19 Pandemic in the USA, there are two fights going on. One against a virulent & dangerous new coronavirus & the other on behalf of the safety & protection of ‘essential’ workers across the country. ”The disease is doing an exceptional job at its mission: to infect & kill as many hosts as possible...
Women and COVID-19: What You NEED to Know!
December 14, 2020 08:00 - 56 minutes - 4.51 MBBeth Battaglino, RN, CEO of HealthyWomen.org, well known for the incredible work she has been doing for over 25 years in clinical nursing and with HealthyWomen, will join me to talk about ALL things Current: Covid-19, her personal experience dealing with it as a maternal-fetal nurse, health inequities in our country and how they primarily negatively affect women. I expect to talk about the worries we each have regarding PTSD, Moral Trauma and the specter of suicide in healthcare now. We will ...
What Nurses Wish the Public Knew!
December 07, 2020 08:00 - 54 minutes - 4.51 MBWhat has become abundantly apparent in 2020 is just how little the lay public know about hospitals & how they function, nurses & what they do and why there are no hospital beds anywhere in the country right now. What is amazing also is hearing healthcare professionals making comments not supported by science at all, like COVID 19 cannot be spread by people without symptoms. My guest Mary Turner, RN, President of the MN Nurses Association, was asked to speak to President Biden-elect with 3 oth...
Nurses: Show us Your Hope!
November 30, 2020 08:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MB2020 International Year of the Nurse & Midwife was proposed to showcase the work that nurses do every day. It has proven to be a year of showing not only nurses’ knowledge, compassion and determination, but quite unexpectedly, has displayed ALL around the world the courage, depth of mission and passion for patients that nurses hold. This show is one of celebration with nurse leaders Janie Garner, Executive Director of the Show me Your Stethoscope organization and Cara Lunsford, CEO of HOLLIBL...
Transforming Healthcare: Nurses Required
November 23, 2020 08:00 - 54 minutes - 4.51 MBOur Healthcare system is broken. In fact, we do not have healthcare in this country—we have disease care. We wait until you get sick and then try to fix you, easily the most inefficient and expensive form of “healthcare” in the world. Yet, we CAN truly transform healthcare. Each of us will interact with our healthcare system, whether for our families or ourselves. Let’s conscientiously create a system, based on science, research and experience, that we can each be proud of and that we would f...
CNO’s of New York: COVID Debrief!!!
November 16, 2020 08:00 - 56 minutes - 4.51 MBMy guests for this Episode, Rosanne Raso & Linda Valentino, two of many CNO’s of NYC’s Hospitals, who met the first major onslaught of COVID-19 on the East Coast. We’ve heard a LOT about the incredible efforts of frontline nurses, doctors & essential personnel, but VERY little about the HEROS behind the scenes. On March 29, 2020 Linda received a call from the President & COO of Mount Sinai Hospital telling her to report to Mount Sinai Brooklyn to serve as the hospital’s Incident Commander. ...
A Nurse-Eye View of CBD
November 09, 2020 08:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBMarijuana for medical use has faced more than 80 years of ridicule, unscientific, unregulated, mishandling of the drug and decades of misinformation, myths and unethical management. Boomers have advocated for the legalization of the drug since the 50’s and 60’s, but it has only been since California, Colorado and a handful of other states did legalized medical marijuana, that it is being taken seriously to help with a wide variety of chronic and intractable health issues. My guests, Patty Gil...
Nurse Turnover: How DO We Stop the Flow?
November 02, 2020 08:00 - 54 minutes - 4.51 MBThere may be no more critical issue in Nursing today than Nurse Turnover. That ONE subject covers all others: COVID-19, Work/life Balance, Burnout, Bullying, Boomer retirement, Career advancement, Inadequate onboarding of nurses, Nursing Leadership, Nursing Education, Innovation, Hospital Culture, Staffing, Retention Strategy, Leadership development, Supporting new leaders during transition, Leading the Millenial Nurse and Generation “Z” and SO MUCH MORE!!! My guest, Kristin Baird, a national...
Women's Stress is Increasing. Is it "Normal"?
October 19, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour - 4.51 MBBeth Battaglino, RN, CEO of HealthyWomen.org, well known for the incredible work she has been doing for over 25 years in clinical nursing and with HealthyWomen, will join me to talk about ALL things Current: Covid-19, her personal experience dealing with it as a maternal-fetal nurse, health inequities in our country and how they primarily negatively affect women. I expect to talk about the worries we each have regarding PTSD, Moral Trauma and the specter of suicide in healthcare now. We will ...
OutGROW the Bully
October 19, 2020 07:00 - 56 minutes - 4.51 MBThis is a topic deeply personal and simultaneously National (not to mention International). Communication is something we all do from prenatal to our last breaths on this earth. Conflict is a given. If we are alive, we absolutely will face conflict. As near as I can tell, there have ALWAYS been bullies. Why is it that we simply don’t seem to get better at communicating with these people in bullying situations? That is SUCH a good question, I decided to ask an expert on the subject: Judith Car...
Fill Up Your Cup, Nurses!
October 12, 2020 07:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBThere just cannot be too many ways to describe self-care for nurses, since we tend to be so bad at doing self-care. I have had Education and Coaching experts, guru’s of meditation, breath work, nurses of all types, ages and backgrounds on the show to discuss this. What I have been wanting to do is talk to relatively new nurses and dig into what works to welcome them into the career and profession of nursing; what helps when they recognize burnout brewing in their souls; and what makes them wa...
Nurses Self-Advocate: Job Burnout to Professional Empowerment
October 05, 2020 07:00 - 54 minutes - 4.51 MBEvery day there are new stories of heroism about nurses—across the Country and around the World. Just NOT from Nurses. Media and the general population, now and in the past, really do NOT have a CLUE what nurses do. Is it because nurses are too busy, tired, burned out and in moral distress to tell their own incredible stories? Although healthcare and nursing are in the news thanks to COVID-19, when was the last time the expert being interviewed was a NURSE? My guest is James Kerridge, Direct...
HOLLIBLU: A Community Where Nurses Thrive!
September 28, 2020 07:00 - 56 minutes - 4.51 MBNever underestimate what a nurse can do when they see that the sustainability of their profession is at risk and their nurse community is suffering. In this episode we will explore how the power of community and peer support can be a solution to the fast-growing nurse burnout that is plaguing our industry.
Encore: TOXIC Leadership: Hospital Change is Needed NOW!
September 21, 2020 07:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBOne of the outcomes of the World Pandemic of COVID-19 is uncovering of all the cracks and deficits in our Public Health and Healthcare Systems in the USA that have been happening over many years. It is open to all eyes at this point that there is NO equity in our healthcare. The poor, black, brown, indigenous and immigrants receive the worst or NO care in our system. The wealthy receive much better care, but still when we look at the statistics of care in the United States compared to other...
Everyday Courage for Extraordinary Times
September 14, 2020 07:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBFear is a reaction, courage is a decision. These 8 powerful words are from my Guest, Joe Tye’s, new class, “Everyday Courage for Extraordinary Times.” Everything in our life--our successes, joys, mediocrity, losses, & failures can be traced back to decisions we have made along the way at critical moments. We are currently in a time of GREAT historic significance. The decisions EACH of us make (whether we SEE ourselves as people of power, or not important at all), WILL impact not only OUR futu...
Encore: Racism: Health Impacts on People of Color
September 07, 2020 07:00 - 53 minutes - 4.51 MBDetail Description (1000 Characters): This has been a week of explosions, grief and mourning in my State, Minnesota, the country and the world on top of a pressure cooker of 3 months under the threat of COVID-19 changing every aspect of our lives. I simply cannot move on without addressing it. I have invited my friend Dr. Daihnia Dunkley, who was on the show in September to discuss Race Disparity in Healthcare. She will join me to attempt to put some perspective on how we are in this place in...
What We DON’T Know About Disinfectants, Can KILL Us!
August 31, 2020 07:00 - 54 minutes - 4.51 MBThis week I had the opportunity to observe an EMT deliver a patient to the hospital room next to my mother’s room. When they brought the stretcher out they cleaned it right in front of me. Using a spray bottle and paper towels, they rapidly wiped over surfaces, missing large areas of the cart and equipment attached to the cart. It occurred to me that this act of “disinfecting” for COVID-19 is happening ALL over the Country and the world. Why is that a problem? My guest is Scott Smith, CEO of ...
Nursing Talk Show JAM with Keith Carlson and Joyce Batcheller
August 24, 2020 07:00 - 54 minutes - 4.51 MBI am becoming more connected to some of the other Nurse Talk Show Hosts. I discovered Keith Carlson,The Nurse Keith Show, from some of my Guests and discovered he is wonderful—great voice for Radio! Joyce Batcheller and I were also introduced by a mutual Guest, Lyn McCright. Joyce invited me on her show, All About Nursing, which was great fun and we realized that we had a LOT in common. I got the brainy idea of having the 3 of us on my show to JAM about Nursing. This is a GREAT show with know...
Nurses are Drowning! What Can They Use Right Now?
August 17, 2020 07:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBNurses across the country are drowning from the overwhelm of COVID-19 patients, lack of PPE, lack of support from some of their hospitals/administrations/Federal/State/Local governments. They are even drowning from the waves of people wishing them well & calling them (S)Heros. They don’t feel like (S)Heros. They feel like they are striving to save patients, they have not even had time to meet before they die—1-4 per shift. They are used to seeing FAR more success than LOSS. They are drowning ...
Nursing: Voices to Expose Human Trafficking of Children Part II
August 10, 2020 07:00 - 52 minutes - 4.51 MBIn a world caught up in multiple crises (Global warming, a rabid election process, COVID-19, Systemic Racism), who is there to notice that Human Trafficking is continuing at a breakneck speed? My guests, Dr. Jessica Peck, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner for over 20 years is not just paying attention, she is active in many different avenues to arrest this menace and keep it from continuing in society. She was on my show on June 6, 2020 and I invited her to come back with Holly (Austin Smith) G...
TOXIC Leadership: Hospital Change is Needed NOW!
August 03, 2020 07:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBOne of the outcomes of the World Pandemic of COVID-19 is uncovering of all the cracks and deficits in our Public Health and Healthcare Systems in the USA that have been happening over many years. It is open to all eyes at this point that there is NO equity in our healthcare. The poor, black, brown, indigenous and immigrants receive the worst or NO care in our system. The wealthy receive much better care, but still when we look at the statistics of care in the United States compared to other...
COVID-19: Honor YOUR nurse with a DAISY Award!
July 27, 2020 07:00 - 56 minutes - 4.51 MBI was thrilled to learn about the DAISY Foundation, a remarkable organization that exclusively honors nurses for the incredible efforts they make daily. Bonnie & Mark Barnes wanted to keep the memory of Patrick Barnes alive in a unique way by awarding his nurses (and eventually nurses around the world) with a tangible, heartfelt recognition by their peers/patients. Bonnie & Mark just launched a book to tell the 20-year story: “Shining the Light On All the Right.” So many people now jump on th...
Healing: The Synchrony of Body-Brain-Mind-Spirit
July 20, 2020 07:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MB2020 celebrates the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale, known as the mother of nursing & hospital administration, in the Year of the Nurse & Midwife. What could be better than the privilege of talking with a Pioneer of Holistic Nursing, Dr. Helen C. Erickson? She joins me to discuss VERY deep topics that impact nurses, healthcare providers, patients & humans in general. She is one of the leading nursing theorists of the 20th century. Her theories are spiritual in nature & emphasize th...
Parenting Under World and National Stress
July 13, 2020 07:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBWe know that all parents are under tremendous stress during this time of COVID, racial and political unrest. However, I believe, mothers and particularly working mothers are under the MOST stress, due to the added roles often assigned to women. My guest today, Rachel Duffy is not only a parent of 3 young children, but also a Certified Conscious Parenting & Leadership Coach, working with parents and leaders of various fields, who have these added stressors in their lives. We will discuss how t...
Nursing: A Voice to Expose Human Trafficking of Children
July 06, 2020 07:00 - 56 minutes - 4.51 MBIn a world caught up in multiple crises (Global warming, a rabid election process, COVID-19, Systemic Racism), who is there to notice that Human Trafficking is continuing at a breakneck speed? My guest, Dr. Jessica Peck, a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner for over 20 years is not just paying attention, she is active in many different avenues to arrest this menace and keep it from continuing in society. She is an expert pediatric clinician and anti-trafficking advocate who provides innovative, vi...
Nurses: Scientists and Innovators as Critical Assets to Healthcare
June 29, 2020 07:00 - 57 minutes - 4.51 MBNurses are preparing for the massive undertaking of recreating healthcare for the benefit of patients, the industry and country. My guests are Healthcare innovators, immersing themselves in the needs of Now AND the Future. Shawna Butler, nurse economist, health tech specialist & builder of the global EntrepreNurse movement, currently in Texas; and Tim Raderstorf, the Chief Innovation Officer at The Ohio State University College of Nursing & Head of Academic Entrepreneurship at the Erdo?s Inst...
Keeping it ‘Safe’ in Healthcare Team Conversations, Part II
June 22, 2020 07:00 - 52 minutes - 4.51 MBIt is frequently during times of emergency and crisis when our best communication efforts fall apart. My Guest, Roz Lindsay, is an Australian veterinarian who found her way into the corporate world and from there launched 2 successful learning and development businesses! Her passion is helping teams to communicate effectively, efficiently and in a humane way. Our conversation ranged widely since this is also a passion of mine. Certainly, the times we live in: fast paced, bottom lines, commun...
CNO's With a Heart
June 15, 2020 07:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBCOVID-19 has uncovered horrendous deficiencies in many healthcare organizations in the USA. Among the MOST concerning, has been the blatant disrespect for nurses & other HC workers as they risk their lives caring for terminally ill patients, while being refused basic PPE & staffing support. Then they are threatened with loss of their jobs if they follow basic nursing policies. I knew this could NOT be the case everywhere in the country. In searching for CNO’s who put their nursing staff first...
Keeping it ‘Safe’ in Healthcare Team Conversations, Part I
June 08, 2020 07:00 - 53 minutes - 4.51 MBIt is frequently during times of emergency and crisis when our best communication efforts fall apart. My Guest, Roz Lindsay, is an Australian veterinarian who found her way into the corporate world and from there launched 2 successful learning and development businesses! Her passion is helping teams to be able to communicate effectively, efficiently and in a humane way. Our conversation ranged widely since this is also a passion of mine. Certainly, the times we live in: fast paced, bottom lin...
Racism: Health Impacts on People of Color
June 01, 2020 07:00 - 53 minutes - 4.51 MBDetail Description (1000 Characters): This has been a week of explosions, grief and mourning in my State, Minnesota, the country and the world on top of a pressure cooker of 3 months under the threat of COVID-19 changing every aspect of our lives. I simply cannot move on without addressing it. I have invited my friend Dr. Daihnia Dunkley, who was on the show in September to discuss Race Disparity in Healthcare. She will join me to attempt to put some perspective on how we are in this place in...
COVID-19: Automated Screening Program to the Rescue
May 18, 2020 07:00 - 53 minutes - 4.51 MBLisa Romano, CNO of Cipherhealth, my guest for May 18, 2020 and I met in the Fall of 2019, long before anyone was even thinking or a novel coronavirus. When we were actually able to connect for the show, it became apparent that Lisa’s Career led her to the right place, right time to play a shero role in the COVID-19 crisis. She had been working with Hospitals for years to create streamlined IT processes in rooming, moving/discharging, cleaning, and re-rooming patients. Little did she know, ha...
Somatic Functional Therapy (SFT): The Best Stress and Pain Treatment, You’ve Never Heard of!
May 11, 2020 07:00 - 54 minutes - 4.51 MBPain and stress relief programs have probably been around since nearly the beginning of time. However the problems still plague most people around the world. The COVID-19 Crisis has only added to the stress and then pain that people are experiencing. I am one of those individuals, dealing with pain almost as long as I can remember. So, while attending a health conference in January, where my guests, today, were demonstrating the effects of Somatic Functional Therapy (SFT), I was the first to ...
Nursing Leadership: Back to the Future
May 04, 2020 07:00 - 57 minutes - 4.51 MBMargaret Erickson, a nationally celebrated nurse leader with future plans of what Nursing Leadership will become as it creates a MAJOR paradigm shift from the medical model of illness & disease, to the nursing model of health, wellness, & wellbeing/wellbecoming. To a lay person, this may not sound different, but in healthcare it is NIGHT and DAY different. With the Medical model (while doctors want to help their patients to be healthy), their focus is on diagnosis & treatment, once someone I...
COVID-19: The Time for Resilience is NOW!
April 27, 2020 07:00 - 54 minutes - 4.51 MBToday's guests, Lyn McCright and Teresa Walding (both with Advancing Nurse Coaching) are joining me today as a follow-up to their previous discussion on February 17, 2020 regarding Resilience Paradigms. At that time COVID-19 was barely on the radar and now we are all overwhelmed with the issue. It has taken an especially large toll on nurses and other healthcare workers on the front lines of the Pandemic in the hospitals and clinics in Hot Zone areas like San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York,...
COVID-19: HC Crisis Management Done Right
April 20, 2020 07:00 - 55 minutes - 4.51 MBWe have seen disastrous displays of pandemic mismanagement this year. There are many examples of managing crisis in an exemplary way with incredible teamwork & camaraderie by the healthcare (s)heroes of the coronavirus epidemic. GOOD leadership does NOT start when the crisis hits us in the face. It starts years ahead by building a 2-way culture of good relationships, honesty & trust between admin. & staff. Culture is shaped by the collective attitudes & behaviors of the people who work there....
COVID-19: Insights from Healthcare Workers
April 13, 2020 07:00 - 54 minutes - 4.51 MBIn the COVID-19 Pandemic in the USA there are two fights going on. One against a virulent and dangerous new coronavirus and the other on behalf of the safety and protection of “essential” workers across the country. The disease is doing an exceptional job at its mission: to infect and kill as many hosts as possible. The cities, states, hospital administrations and political leaders are, to a large extent, failing miserably at their mission: To protect each and every doctor, nurse, hospital em...
COVID-19: Epidemiology in a nutshell - What Now?
April 06, 2020 07:00 - 54 minutes - 4.51 MBDr. Stacen Keating is a former guest from Once a Nurse, Always a Nurse. She is a Nursing Professor at NYU. She contacted me over the weekend with stories & messages from healthcare workers, mostly nurses, who desperately want to get their message out to the world. She and her colleague, Dr. Gary, Yu, Epidemiologist of NYU will join me on this episode to, FIRST and FOREMOST talk about the need to save lives, including frontline workers and SECONDLY why we should work collaboratively with China...