Podcasts about nurses

Your gut doesn't lie — and in perimenopause, it's sending distress signals most doctors completely ignore. Nurse practitioner, two-time TEDx speaker, and Everyday Wellness podcast host Cynthia Thurlow joins Dr. Stephanie for a conversation that starts in Morocco (food poisoning, a hospitalization, and a perimenopause wake-up call nobody saw coming) and ends with a clear-eyed framework for supporting your gut, your bones, your immune system, and your sleep through the hormonal chaos of midlife. Episode Overview: (0:00) Intro/Teaser (7:00) How a Parasite Became a Perimenopause Wake-Up Call (11:00) Why Women Resist the Word “Perimenopause” (16:00) The Gut-Hormone Connection Nobody's Talking About (21:00) The Medical System Was Never Built for Middle-Aged Women (30:00) Body Composition, the Scale, and the Comments That Stick (34:00) The ACE Study: How Childhood Trauma Rewires the Gut and Immune System (41:00) Oral Contraceptives, Antibiotics, and the Developing Microbiome (48:00) The Estrobolome (53:00) The 6–12 Window (56:00) Sleep, Stress, and Nutrition — The Three Biggest Levers in Perimenopause (1:02:00) Advice for Mothers of Daughters (1:05:00) Cynthia's Personal Daily Protocol (1:13:00) The Menopause Gut: Elevator Pitch and Where to Find It (1:15:00) After Party — Dr. Stephanie's Key Takeaways Resources mentioned in this episode can be found at https://drstephanieestima.com/podcasts/ep466/ We couldn't do it without our sponsors: ONESKIN - With age, skin becomes thinner, produces less collagen, proliferates at a slower rate, and accumulates damage. Fight back and save 15% at https://oneskin.co/better with code BETTER. BIOPTIMIZERS - Magnesium Breakthrough contains multiple types of magnesium plus cofactors like B6 to enhance absorption. Visit https://bioptimizers.com/better and use code BETTER to save 15%. JUST THRIVE HEALTH - Take the Just Thrive FEEL BETTER challenge today, and save 20% on your first order. Go to https://justthrivehealth.com/better and use the code BETTER to see the difference for yourself. LMNT  - Stay hydrated without the sugar, food dye, and other dodgy ingredients found in popular electrolyte and sports drinks. Receive a free LMNT Sample Pack with any order when you make a purchase at https://DrinkLMNT.com/Better COZY EARTH  - Cozy Earth helps you feel better by keeping your temperature perfect overnight to facilitate deep restorative sleep. Head to https://cozyearth.com and use my code BETTER for up to 20% off. ****************************P.S. When you're ready, here are two ways Dr. Stephanie can help you:Subscribe: The Mini Pause — My weekly newsletter packed with the most actionable, evidence-based tools for women 40+ to thrive in midlife.Build Muscle: LIFT — My progressive strength training program designed for women in midlife. Form-focused, joint-friendly, and built for real results. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

"...when you can get yourself and that parasympathetic nervous system in a calm place, that is when you start healing.  That is when you heal your nervous system, and to calm that nervous system is such an important part of Nursing. And that helps us do our self care, that helps us to regenerate who we are, so we can function day to day. It helps us so that we can love ourselves and each other. It's coming from that calm nervous system that is a primary focus of being human." ~Geralyn Retzel MS, BSN, RN, NC-BC, CAP, LMTAh Ha Moments• Integrative Nurse Coaches help patients access their inner healer through presence, listening, self-awareness, and whole-person support.• Addressing and calming the nervous system is foundational to healing, with practices such as meditation, sound healing, movement, and stillness supporting wellbeing.• Nurses bring immense value beyond tasks and treatments through education, emotional support, family guidance, and compassionate human connection.• You are already whole and life's challenges can become opportunities for growth, wisdom, and deeper self-understanding.Links and ResourcesIntegrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcastTrust Your Intuition: A Journey with Geralyn RetzelGeralyn's email: gerringo@gmail.comIntegrative Nurse Coach Academy I Integrative Nurse Coach FoundationWe provide nurses with a global community for learning, networking, and reconnecting. Thank you for listening.  We LOVE Nurses!Please leave us a 5 star rating and a positive comment about an episode you love!Follow Integrative Nurse Coach Academy on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedInLearn more about our programs at the Integrative Nurse Coach AcademySchedule a free call with one of our awesome admissions specialists here>> and get your questions answered!Use the code 'ACTION' at checkout and get $100 off the Integrative Nurse Coach Certificate Program (Parts 1 & 2 Bundle). 

In this week's episode, we're re-airing one of our top episodes with Monique Rodriguez, the founder and CEO of Mielle Organics, an all natural hair care and beauty brand. Monique created Mielle Organics' first product in her kitchen. Now, the brand has products in over 85 countries – and still pursues the same vision it did from when it operated out of Monique's kitchen, with the same values.Monique worked as a registered nurse for almost a decade. She pursued nursing initially to please her mother and secure a financially stable career. As a wife and mother of two girls, it was a big risk to leave her stable career path to pursue her passion. Yet she always had a love of beauty and haircare, and once she saw the engagement of her online community with the products she was creating in the kitchen, she decided to bet on herself and launch her own product, and that's when Mielle Organics was born.In 2021, Monique became the first Black woman to raise a non-controlling nine-figure investment, over $100M, in a deal with Berkshire Partners. In 2023, Monique made history again when Mielle Organics was acquired by Procter & Gamble in an unprecedented acquisition, the largest exit ever for a Black Female beauty founder, in which she will continue to serve as CEO of the company. As part of her deal with P&G, she also established Mielle Cares, the non-profit arm of her company, with a $10M donation that was matched by P&G. In this week's episode we discuss the many business ventures Monique tried that didn't work out, why she decided to pursue her nursing career and the biggest skills she learned there that have propelled her when starting her own business. We also chat about her process of building a passionate community through social media, how that helped her create product market fit for her product, and the steps she took to find a chemist to work on her first batch that ended up selling out. Monique also ends on sharing insights on manifesting success, the exact steps she took to bring her ideas to life, her advice on navigating challenging situations both personally and professionally, and so much more. In this episode, we'll talk to Monique about:* Confronting fears and building self-belief. [04:06]* Strong women in Monique's upbringing. [07:27]* Leaving her comfort zone. [20:09]* High-risk pregnancy experience in 2013. [22:49]* Funding Mielle's early stages. [31:35]* Starting Mielle at home and the initial orders. [35:24]* Driving Mielle Organics' launch success.[36:41]* Leaving nursing job to focus on Mielle. [37:54]* Manifestation steps and vision importance. [40:41]* Bringing in private equity, alignment with Berkshire. [55:31]* Timeline of P&G acquisition. [58:05]* Journaling and gratitude cultivation. [01:00:26]* Business sale impact on Monique's life. [01:02:33]This episode is brought to you by beeya: * Learn more about beeya's seed cycling bundle at https://beeyawellness.com/free to find out how to tackle hormonal imbalances. * Get $10 off your order by using promo code BEHINDHEREMPIREFollow Yasmin:* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yasminknouri/* Website: https://www.behindherempire.com/Follow Monique:* Website: https://mielleorganics.com/* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mielleorganics/* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/exquisitemo/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

England, 1991: A murder has just happened on a children's hospital ward. And though no one knew who the killer was, by the time they'd discover their culprit, she would've gone on to become one of Britain's most evil serial killers. Her name is Beverley Allitt, she's a nurse and though appears soft and gentle to parents, would transform into a total monster behind closed doors. Resources:Tree of Hope https://www.treeofhope.org.uk/ Tree of Hope is a charity supporting families across the UK and Ireland to secure funding for children and young people requiring healthcare not freely available to them.https://linktr.ee/eleanornealeresourcesA Moth MGMT production @moth-mgmtFollow Outlore Podcast here:YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@EleanorNealeInsta - @outlorepodcast https://www.instagram.com/outlorepodcast/?__d=16d TikTok - @outlorepodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@outlorepodcast Get to know me on my Personal Channel YouTube - @ellieneale1 https://www.youtube.com/@ellieneale1 Insta - @eleanorneale https://www.instagram.com/eleanorneal...Tiktok - @eleanorneale https://www.tiktok.com/@eleanorneale?...Twitter - @eleanorxneale https://x.com/ELEANORXNEALE

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The Lucy Letby case now exists across multiple simultaneous legal tracks. The Criminal Cases Review Commission is examining whether her convictions are safe. The Thirlwall Inquiry is preparing a final report on institutional failures. Three former hospital executives are under criminal investigation. Coronial inquests into five babies' deaths have been opened. And the families at the center of all of it are still, years later, waiting for accurate death certificates.The Thirlwall Inquiry has been uniquely valuable not just for the conclusions it will reach but for the material it has forced into public view. Internal emails, grievance files, draft reports by external reviewers that never saw daylight. Nurses testified about chronic understaffing and impossible patient loads. Parents spoke publicly about their children's deaths for the first time.But the inquiry operates on a legal assumption that Letby's convictions are valid, while the CCRC examines whether they should stand. Letby's defense asked the inquiry to pause. The request was refused. Warning letters have been sent to individuals facing significant criticism in the final report, which is scheduled for publication after Easter 2026.The system that was supposed to protect those babies failed them. Whether the failure was enabling a killer or producing a wrongful conviction, the institutional breakdown is the same. And the question this case leaves behind is whether any system, anywhere, is willing to be honest about what it missed.The final episode in our five-part Hidden Killers investigation. The Lucy Letby story is not over. And neither is the reckoning.Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePodThis publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice.#LucyLetby #HiddenKillers #NurseOfDeath #ThirlwallInquiry #CCRC #CountessOfChester #NHSFailure #TrueCrime #CrimePodcast #InstitutionalFailure

In this incredible birth story, My Essential Birth parents Christa and Morgan take us through one of the most incredible journeys I have ever had the honor of sharing on this podcast. From a heartbreaking miscarriage to living on the road during pregnancy, to refusing a life flight and driving eight hours home, to an unmedicated delivery nobody saw coming (and a 32-week baby who left every nurse in the NICU completely speechless) this story will stay with you long after you finish listening.This episode is PROOF that when you prepare, advocate, and work together as a couple — you can have an amazing experience no matter which twist and turns pregnancy and birth take. I promise, this is one you do not want to miss!Here's some highlights from the episode:

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What if the bloating, brain fog, sleepless nights, and stubborn weight you've been blaming on menopause are actually a gut problem in disguise? Nurse practitioner Cynthia Thurlow has 25 years of clinical experience, a TEDx talk with over 15 million views, and the number four nutrition podcast in the country. But it wasn't until a near-death experience in 2018 — a ruptured appendix, 13 days in the hospital, and a perimenopause nobody had caught — that she truly understood what declining estrogen does to a woman's gut, immune system, and entire body. That experience became the foundation of her new book, The Menopause Gut, and this conversation goes deep. We cover the estrobolome (the estrogen processing center inside your microbiome that almost no one has told you about), why your ovaries age two to five times faster than every other organ in your body, the gut-bone connection and what fiber actually has to do with bone loss, why 90 to 95 percent of serotonin is made in the gut and what that means for mood and depression in midlife, how HRT really works and who deserves to be having that conversation, and what the practical menopause gut plan actually looks like in real life.  

In this session, Pat Iyer, a seasoned blogger and past president of the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultant, shares her journey of blogging since 2009 and reveals insider techniques to gain visibility among attorneys seeking specialized expertise. Joined by co-moderator Barbara Levin, herself a distinguished legal nurse consultant and educator, they explore how regular, targeted content transforms a static presence into a dynamic magnet for new opportunities. Throughout the episode, listeners will learn why traditional, unchanging websites are no longer enough and how consistent blogging becomes a critical tool for connecting with overstretched attorneys. Pat explains how blog content not only attracts search engines but also builds credibility, authority, and lasting professional relationships. Real-world examples illustrate how a single blog post can directly lead to client inquiries, highlighting the blog's role as an ever-present, quietly persuasive marketing force. Along with actionable blogging advice, Pat and Barbara touch on upcoming legal nurse consultant events, content repurposing hacks, and the importance of leveraging AI and other technologies to maximize reach. The episode is packed with tips for overcoming common blogging pitfalls, ensuring consistency, and turning knowledge into real business growth. What You'll Learn in This Episode on Blogging Strategies for Legal Nurse Consultants: How to Stand Out in a Crowded Field  Here are 5 discussion questions answered in the podcast: Why is it becoming more challenging for legal nurse consultants to stand out and get noticed by attorneys in a crowded market? How does consistent blogging set legal nurse consultants apart from competitors and boost their visibility with attorneys? What are the most effective types of blog topics that resonate with attorneys and potentially lead to new cases? How can blogs be repurposed for other marketing activities such as newsletters, LinkedIn posts, and videos? What are common mistakes legal nurse consultants make when blogging, and how can they ensure their blogs actually attract and engage the right audience? Listen to our podcasts or watch them using our app, Expert.edu, available at legalnursebusiness.com/expertedu. Get the free transcripts and also learn about other ways to subscribe. Go to Legal Nurse Podcasts subscribe options by using this short link: http://LNC.tips/subscribepodcast. Grow Your LNC Business 13th LNC SUCCESS® ONLINE CONFERENCE April 23, 24, and 25, 2026 Skills, Strategy, Results Gain deposition mastery, marketing confidence, and clinical–legal insight from industry leaders you can apply to your next case and client call. Build a Practice Attorneys Remember Learn exactly how to showcase expertise, attract referrals, and turn complex medical records into clear, defensible stories that win trust. Learn From the Best—Then Ask Them Anything Get step-by-step training, live “hot seat” solutions, and exclusive VIP Q&A time with Pat Iyer to accelerate your LNC growth. Register now- Limited spots available Your Presenter for Blogging Strategies for Legal Nurse Consultants: How to Stand Out in a Crowded Field Pat Iyer Pat Iyer is a seasoned legal nurse consultant and business coach, renowned for her expertise in guiding new legal nurse consultants to successfully break into the field. As the host of the Legal Nurse Podcast, Pat addresses critical challenges that legal nurse consultants face, such as difficulty in landing clients and a lack of response from attorneys. Through her insightful episodes, she emphasizes the importance of effectively communicating one's value to potential clients. With a wealth of experience, Pat has empowered countless consultants to overcome these hurdles and thrive in their careers. Connect with Pat Iyer by email at patiyer@legalnusebusiness.com Barbara Levin Barbara Levin, BSN, RN, ONC, LNCC, CMSRN, FNAON, is a nationally recognized expert witness and legal nurse consultant with more than two decades of experience. Known for her precision, clarity, and ability to mentor others, Barbara has co-hosted ten LNC Success® Conferences alongside Pat and brings a wealth of practical knowledge to help LNCs thrive. Connect with Barbara Levin by email at Barbara@barbarajlevin.com

This podcast episode provides nurses with a clear, practical overview of non-insulin diabetes medications, focusing on how to safely and effectively manage patients with type 2 diabetes. It reviews key drug classes such as metformin, glipizide, empagliflozin, and semaglutide, emphasizing mechanisms of action, common side effects, and important monitoring parameters. Nurses will learn how to recognize risks like hypoglycemia with sulfonylureas, genitourinary infections with SGLT2 inhibitors, and gastrointestinal effects with GLP-1 agents, along with key patient counseling points. The episode also connects medication selection to real-world considerations such as weight impact, cardiovascular benefit, and kidney function, helping nurses feel more confident in supporting individualized diabetes care. Be sure to check out our free Top 200 study guide – a 31 page PDF that is yours for FREE!

Hannah shares how a lifetime of performance-based faith, fear, and shame slowly unravels as God teaches her what grace actually means. We talk through trauma, health, grief, motherhood, and the mind-body connection until the real miracle lands: her head and heart finally agree that God loves her.• growing up between Filipino and Scottish identity in rural Australia• early doubts about prayer and the belief God does not care• bullying, isolation, and finding belonging in the emo crowd• family breakdown, church pain, and a lifelong performance mindset• nursing school, ICU stress, and learning where she thrives• Arise Bible training and seeing how legalism blocks the heart• meeting David and discovering peace, respect, and safety in love• migraines, eczema, and how stress and fear can flare the body• traumatic birth, postpartum depression, intrusive thoughts, and medical advocacy• art therapy and naming wounds God answers with truth• grief after her grandmother's death and finding God in anger and loss• anointing, prayer, biblical counseling, and freedom from people pleasing• ongoing family trials and clinging to God's promise of restoration

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Welcome to the Celestial Insights Podcast, the show that brings the stars down to Earth! Each week, astrologer, coach, and intuitive Celeste Brooks of Astrology by Celeste will be your guide. Her website is astrologybyceleste.com.  

In this conversation, Charlene sits down with Dr. Andrea Hall, nurse leader, educator, and mind-body coach, to talk about what it really looks like to reconnect with yourself after years of pouring into others.With over 30 years in healthcare, Dr. Hall shares how she transitioned into a more holistic approach to healing, focusing on the connection between the mind, body, and spirit. This is a grounded and honest conversation about identity, purpose, and what it takes to move forward with intention, especially in the later seasons of life.If you've ever felt like you lost yourself in your work, your roles, or your responsibilities, this conversation will meet you there and help you think differently about what's still possible.Subscribe for more conversations on leadership, personal development, and real growth in healthcare and beyond.#nurseleadership #personaldevelopment #mindbodyconnection #healthcareleadership #womeninleadership

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If you love learning from books that are grounded in history and backed by research, this episode is for you. The truth is, some of the oldest wisdom about food and health is still some of the most relevant — and The Biblio Diet by Dr. Josh Axe and Jordan Rubin makes a compelling case for why. In this bonus episode, I'm sharing my review for The Biblio Diet by Dr. Josh Axe and Jordan Rubin. In this episode, you'll learn: Why this book works for readers at every level, from teenagers to holistic health educators Which chapters stood out (and the one chapter that comes with an important caveat if you have Hashimoto's) Why Chapter 14 alone might be worth the price of the book Hit play and find out if The Biblio Diet deserves a spot on your reading list.   Get the book: https://a.co/d/06JarROC    JOIN THE HEALTH WITH HASHIMOTO'S COMMUNITY Unlock your wellness journey with the free Health with Hashimoto's community! Join a supportive community that's here for you every step of the way. The Health with Hashimoto's community is on Skool: https://www.skool.com/health-with-hashimotos/about   Find all links on my resource page: https://healthwithhashimotos.com/resources/   ABOUT THE PODCAST & ESTHER: The Health with Hashimoto's podcast will help you explore the root causes of your autoimmune condition and discover holistic solutions to address your Hashimoto's thyroiditis. It is hosted by Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse, holistic health educator, and Hashimoto's warrior.   This podcast is for informational and educational purposes. Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Jenn Johnson is a Canadian Emergency Room nurse, author, and nurse retention advocate with over 17 years of frontline experience. She is the author of Nursing Intuition: How to Trust Your Gut, Save Your Sanity, and Survive Your Career, a powerful guide that helps nurses recognize, trust, and strengthen their clinical intuition toimprove patient care and personal resilience. Building on this work, Jenn developed a new graduate nurse retention system designed to support nurses during theirmost vulnerable transition into practice. Through structured reflection, mentorship, and practical tools. #drdanamzallag, #drdanpodcast, #Happinessjourneywithdrdan,#ddanmotivation, #inspiringinterviews, #drdancbt, #drdantherapy,#drdancoaching, #drdanhappiness,  

Participatory governance in healthcare means asking the right people the right questions. Three stories where listening as leadership changed everything. Summary This episode is about listening as leadership — the gap between where knowledge lives and where decisions get made, and what it costs when we pretend that gap doesn’t exist. Three stories from my career as a nurse manager, quality director, and VP — three moments where participatory governance in healthcare produced the same result: a no to the status quo. Not a radical no. An obvious one. Obvious, that is, once someone finally asked the people living inside the system. Topics covered: Open visiting hours in the ICU — and what happened when staff pushed back Seven therapy visits, no prior authorization required — and what happened when the company was acquired A disability services resident on a board of directors — and the simple fix that improved every patient experience metric Why participatory governance is the fastest, cheapest diagnostic tool most health system leaders never use The honest difference between patient advisory boards and actually sharing power with patients What patient-centered care looks like when it moves beyond consultation into real shared decision making Click here to view the printable newsletter. More readable than a transcript. Contents Table of Contents Toggle EpisodeProemPart 1: ICU Doors OpenPart 2: Seven Visits, No Questions AskedPart 3: The Right to Say GoodbyeSynthesis: What's Common Across All ThreeReflection Podcast episode on YouTube Episode Proem I’ve spent most of my career in institutions, hospitals, managed care companies, and disability services agencies. These are large, slow-moving systems with their own inertia, logic, and knack for designing processes that work best for billing, and not so well for those receiving or providing services. I should know. I’ve been inside these systems as a clinician, boss, consultant, caregiver, and patient. The boldest changes I was part of didn’t come from a consultant’s report. They didn’t come from a board retreat or a leaders' strategic planning day off-site — though, Lord knows, I’ve sat through plenty of those. They came from the moment when someone, usually someone with very little institutional power, said: This doesn’t work. It’s hurting us. The hardest part wasn’t hearing that. The hardest part was finding the gumption to act. Institutions are good at explaining why things are the way they are. They have binders of policies for that. My secret as a consultant was embarrassingly simple: the people who hired me already had the answers they needed. The nurse who’d been there fifteen years knew. The member who couldn’t get her calls returned knew. I sought them out, listened, and translated their words into a PowerPoint that the boardroom could hear. I want to tell you about three times I got it right. Three moments when the change that mattered was a no. No to visiting hours that kept families from the people they loved. No to a prior authorization process that treated patients and clinicians like suspects and required an army to administer that suspicion. No to a system that let care aides disappear from people’s lives without warning or goodbye, as if the people whose lives they were in didn’t deserve a heads-up. None of these nos were mine originally. I heard them from a family pacing a waiting room, from a member who couldn’t get the help she needed, and from a man with a disability who sat on our board and told us, plainly, what it felt like to wake up one day to find that someone essential to his life was simply gone. Participatory governance sounds like it belongs in a policy manual, right between stakeholder alignment and learning organization. When participatory governance works, it's permission. Permission for the people living and working within a system to tell the truth about it. And the willingness, on the part of whoever’s in charge, to let that truth land. Even when it’s inconvenient. Especially then. Part 1: ICU Doors Open My first experience as a boss was as an ICU nurse manager, a job I got, I should mention, without ever having worked in an ICU or having been a boss. A story for another day. The honeymoon was short. Strictly prescribed visiting hours, ninety minutes in the morning, ninety in the evening, were leaving families miserable. I could see it. They could feel it. In collaboration with my bosses, the ICU medical director, and the chief nurse, I eliminated visiting-hour limits entirely. My staff, who had recruited me for the role, now deeply regretted it. I hadn’t consulted them or thought through the workflow implications. They were furious, and they weren’t wrong to be. But we kept the visiting hours open. Over time, something shifted. I learned how to be a boss. Nurses learned to include families in care and treatment. Patients and families arrived home better prepared. Physicians, for their part, didn’t much care either way. The lesson I learned: this was a story about control. Mine, the nurses’, and ultimately the families’. We eventually set up an informal patient and family advisory group, not because I had planned to, but because we needed them in the room. Part 2: Seven Visits, No Questions Asked My job title was Director of Quality at a behavioral health managed care company. If you’ve spent any time in managed care, you know what that means: Director of Trying to Get an A+ in Every Measure, Whether It Has Meaning or Not. Prior authorization was the centerpiece. A member needs therapy. Their provider submits a request. Someone on our end reviews it, approves or denies it, requests more information, waits, and follows up. The member waits. The provider waits. And somewhere in all that waiting, the person who needed help either got it, gave up, or got worse. I inherited this process. I did not invent it. My boss and I set up an advisory group with members on one side and providers on the other. We asked about their experiences with our company. They were not subtle. Members said the pre-auth process made them feel they had to prove they deserved care. Providers said the company’s default assumption was that they were lying. Neither response was a ringing endorsement. So, we experimented: seven visits, upon request. No authorization required. If a member or their provider asks, they get them. No forms, no review, no waiting. The result: outcomes held. Members received care faster. Providers stopped spending half their administrative time on the phone with us. And our call center, the engine room of the prior authorization machine, grew quieter. Then quieter still. A substantial portion of our staff spent all day managing a process that, in large part, was designed to manage itself. Strip it out, and you didn’t need nearly as many people to run it. The bureaucracy wasn’t protecting anyone. It was the cost. We had real data. Member satisfaction trended up. Providers, for the first time in recent memory, said something positive about the company. The advisory group had surfaced a truth that no quality metric had found, because no quality metric had asked the right people the right question. Then the company was acquired. New owners, new priorities, no appetite for any of this. The program was terminated, and the advisory group disbanded. I can only assume the prior authorization process resumed its proud tradition of making everyone miserable in the name of oversight. I learned that participatory governance surfaces the truth faster than most quality improvement methodologies I’ve encountered. But institutions don’t always want the truth. Sometimes they want the process. The process is familiar. It distributes responsibility. It means nobody has to decide. The advisory group uncovered a truth. It turned out that the people who bought the company got a veto. Part 3: The Right to Say Goodbye There’s a particular kind of organizational meeting where everyone knows something is wrong, the data is right there on the slides, and somehow the conversation goes nowhere. Lots of nodding. Lots of concern. Lots of commitment to further analysis. I worked as VP of Quality at an organization supporting forty thousand people with disabilities, many of them living in group homes, relying on personal care aides for the most intimate parts of daily life. Getting dressed. Eating. Toileting. Moving through the world. At my first Board meeting, we reviewed satisfaction survey results, which were poor. They were not nuanced, requiring careful interpretation. They told us something was bad. And we were doing what organizations do: analyzing, discussing, and scheduling follow-up meetings to review the analysis. We were not asking the people who lived there. The agency was committed to resident/patient participation in governance committees, including the Board; in this case, a resident of one of our group homes served on the Board. Not as a symbol. As a Board member. At one of these meetings, in the middle of what was shaping up to be another productive session of collective concern, he said something that stopped the room. He said: People leave without warning. A personal care aide, someone who helps you start each day, who knows how you take your coffee, which jokes make you laugh, and how you like your blanket folded, is just gone one morning. No notice. No goodbye. Someone new shows up, and you’re expected to adjust. He said it plainly, not as an accusation but as a fact. He apparently assumed, incorrectly, that we already knew. We didn’t. Or rather, someone knew. The people living in the homes knew. The aides probably knew. It just hadn’t made it into the meeting room until he put it there. The fix was insultingly simple. When an aide left, for any reason, residents would be told in advance. A chance to say goodbye. A proper introduction to whoever came next, rather than a key, an address, and good luck. That was the intervention. Advance notice, a goodbye, a hello — the basic courtesies we’d extend to anyone, anywhere, in any other context. Survey results improved dramatically in the next cycle. Not in one or two categories. Across the board. Because what was wrong wasn’t a program or a resource allocation. It was that the people living inside the system had been treated as though their experience of it didn’t count as information. The lesson I carry from that room is the simplest I know: the person living inside the system always knows. They know what’s breaking, what would fix it, and they’ve usually been waiting, sometimes for years, for someone to ask. You just have to put them in the room and believe them when they speak. The keyword is just. Just assumes a lot. Synthesis: What's Common Across All Three Three organizations. Three populations. Three problems, unresolved within systems staffed by smart, well-meaning people. In every case, the answer was already there. It lived in the wrong room. I want to be honest about something. Looking back, only one of these three was truly participatory governance: the man in the group home who served on our board. The ICU families and advisory group members had real influence but no structural authority. They could inform decisions, but they couldn’t stop them. That distinction matters, and I don’t want to paper over it. What they all shared was something simpler yet harder than governance design: someone with institutional power chose to ask, then chose to act on what they heard. The families pacing the ICU waiting room knew visiting hours weren’t protecting patients; they were protecting the unit’s sense of order. The members and providers in that behavioral health advisory group knew prior authorization wasn’t ensuring quality; it was ensuring paperwork. The man on our board knew what was breaking down wasn’t resources or staffing ratios. It was the simple human expectation of a goodbye. None of them needed a consultant. They needed someone with enough authority to ask the question and enough humility to sit with the answer. Here’s what I’ve come to believe: participatory governance, done seriously, is the fastest and cheapest diagnostic tool any leader has. Faster than a consultant. Cheaper than a task force. More accurate than a satisfaction survey that asks the wrong questions of the right people and calls it listening. The nos in these stories weren’t radical. They were obvious, embarrassingly obvious, once you asked the people who already knew. What made them feel radical was the gap between where the knowledge lived and where decisions were made. That gap has a name. Several, actually. We call it hierarchy, liability, chain of command, and expertise — the comfortable assumption that the people at the top understand a system better than those inside it every day. Sometimes that’s true. Often it isn’t. And the cost of acting as though it’s always true is borne by those with the least power to push back. The anxious family in the hallway. The member who couldn’t get through. The man in the group home who, generously, assumed we already knew what he was about to tell us. They were the experts. We had the org chart. Reflection Honestly, I’m proud of these three stories, but I’m not sure I deserve much credit. In each case, the hard work, the observing, the enduring, the knowing, was done by someone else. A family pacing a hallway. A patient who kept calling back. A man who showed up for board meetings and told the truth to a room that had been avoiding it. I contributed a willingness to ask and enough positional authority to act on what I heard. I'm struck by how long those answers had been waiting. The ICU families weren’t new. Frustration with prior auth wasn’t a surprise to anyone who’d navigated it. How long had group home residents been losing people without warning? Nobody seemed to know exactly, long enough that it had stopped registering as a problem and had started registering as just the way things were. That’s the part I can’t shake: the way systems normalize their own failures. The way this is how we do it becomes indistinguishable from this is the only way it can be done. And the people most hurt by that confusion are usually the least positioned to correct it. I got lucky. Three times, I was in the right seat, and the right person was willing to tell me what I needed to hear. Not every leader gets that, and not every leader goes looking for it. The question I’d leave you with — the one I still ask whenever I walk into a new system, a new organization, or any room where decisions are being made about people who aren’t present: Who already knows the answer? And what would it take to let them say it out loud? If you’ve been in that room — where someone finally said the quiet part and the right no was finally spoken — I want to hear about it. Find me at dannyhealthhats@gmail.com. Tell me your version. I promise you: it’s better than you think. And someone out there needs to hear it. Please comment and ask questions: at the comment section at the bottom of the show notes on LinkedIn  via email YouTube channel  DM on Instagram, TikTok to @healthhats Substack Patreon Production Team Kayla Nelson: Web and Social Media Coach, Dissemination, Help Desk  Leon van Leeuwen: editing and site management Oscar van Leeuwen: video editing Julia Higgins: Digit marketing therapy Steve Heatherington: Help Desk and podcast production counseling Joey van Leeuwen, Drummer, Composer, and Arranger, provided the music for the intro, outro, proem, and reflection Claude, Perplexity, Auphonic, Descript, Grammarly, DaVinci Inspired by and Grateful to: Jan Oldenburg, Laura Marcial, Ronda Alexander, Libby Hoy, Lacy Fabian, James Harrison Photo Credits  NASA Referenced in episode   Related episodes from Health Hats https://health-hats.com/patient-family-advisors-back-2-basics/ https://health-hats.com/teachable-spirit-patient-family-advisors/ https://health-hats.com/pod237/ Artificial Intelligence in Podcast Production Health Hats, the Podcast, utilizes AI tools for production tasks such as editing, transcription, and content suggestions. 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In a development that has raised serious questions about transparency and accountability, the Bureau of Prisons has reportedly terminated the employee who exposed Ghislaine Maxwell's preferential treatment while in federal custody. Rather than address why a convicted sex trafficker was receiving unusual accommodations — including a relocation that has never been fully explained — officials chose instead to penalize the individual who alerted the public. The agency's justification rests on claims of “policy violations” and unauthorized communication with the media, a defense that has done little to dispel concerns that the move was designed to suppress scrutiny rather than uphold procedure. For observers, the timing and severity of the response appear less like a personnel issue and more like a concerted effort to control the narrative surrounding Maxwell's conditions.The decision has intensified frustration among survivors, advocates, and members of the public who have demanded answers about how and why Maxwell has been treated differently from other federal inmates. Rather than clarifying who approved her transfer, why she was granted amenities rarely afforded to prisoners, or what internal discussions led to these decisions, the focus has shifted toward silencing the whistleblower. The optics are stark: a system that has repeatedly resisted transparency in the Epstein-Maxwell case now punishing the one person attempting to shed light on it. The unresolved questions remain central: Who authorized the move? What motivated it? And why has the response to legitimate inquiry been discipline instead of disclosure? Until those questions are answered, concerns about a deepening institutional coverup will only continue to grow.to contact me:bobbycapucci@protonmail.com'source:Nurse is fired after revealing Ghislaine Maxwell's VIP treatment at comfortable new federal prison where she has access to puppy | Daily Mail OnlineBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-moscow-murders-and-more--5852883/support.

In today's episode, you will hear a big talk from Lee Powers, an amazing speaker and alum of The Big Talk Academy Mastery.    Lee Powers is a registered nurse, ICU and workplace violence survivor, and an international speaker. She's dedicated her life to transforming personal trauma into purpose.    Her journey began while completing her Nurse Practitioner training when a patient assault left her critically injured. She was put on a ventilator and in a medically induced coma, yet she was fully aware of everything that was happening. That life-altering experience completely reshaped her life, career, and mission.   In her big talk, "A Nurse's Awakening from a Coma: Lessons Learned from Being the Patient," she explores: The alarming rates of workplace violence that healthcare workers face compared to other industries Raising awareness about Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS), a little-known condition that affects over 50% of ICU survivors Why the way we treat unresponsive patients matters deeply How she transformed her devastating experience into a mission to improve patient care and reduce medical trauma More from Lee Powers Website: https://leepowersrn.com/  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-powers-rn-bsn-034845337/  More from Tricia  Grab your copy of my new book, Being Smart Is Stupid Join me LIVE for my Free Monthly Workshop Explore my content and follow me on YouTube Follow me on Instagram  Connect with me on Facebook  Connect with me on LinkedIn  Visit my website at TriciaBrouk.com

A woman was arrested for impersonating something that is absolutely terrible. That being said, Katie thinks this isn't as bad as it seems.

"Not every patient with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) is going to progress and die. Only 10%–20% of them will evolve into acute myeloid leukemia. And not all of them need blood transfusions. Some present with low platelet count. It's not just people who are anemic that have MDS—it's different depending on what type of MDS they have. These are averages. We're giving you statistics based on averages, and you're an individual, so we want to treat you as an individual," ONS member Sara Tinsley-Vance, PhD, APRN, AOCN®, nurse practitioner and quality-of-life researcher at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL, told Lenise Taylor, MN, RN, AOCNS®, TCTCN™, oncology clinical specialist at ONS, during a conversation about myelodysplastic syndrome. Music Credit: "Fireflies and Stardust" by Kevin MacLeod Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 3.0  Earn 0.5 contact hours of nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) by listening to the full recording and completing an evaluation at courses.ons.org by April 17, 2027. The planners and faculty for this episode have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. ONS is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Learning outcome: Nurses caring for people with myelodysplastic syndrome require knowledge of its pathophysiology, the presenting symptoms, and its diagnosis. Episode Notes  Complete this evaluation for free NCPD.  ONS Podcast™ episodes: Episode 339: A Lesson on Labs: How to Monitor and Educate Patients With Cancer Episode 302: Patient Navigation Eliminates Disparities in Cancer Care Episode 256: Cancer Symptom Management Basics: Hematologic Complications ONS Voice articles: Manage Cancer-Associated Anemia With Erythropoietin-Stimulating Agents Whole-Genome Sequencing May Guide Treatment Choices for AML and MDS Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing articles:  Deciphering TP53 Mosaic Variants on Germline Biomarker Testing: Implications for Oncology Nurses Myeloid Malignancies: Recognizing the Risk of Germline Predisposition and Supporting Patients and Families Oncology Nursing Forum article: Impact of a Hematologic Malignancy Diagnosis and Treatment on Patients and Their Family Caregivers ONS book: BMTCN™ Certification Review Manual (second edition) ONS Clinical Practice resource: Genomics Taxonomy Genomics and Precision Oncology Learning Library American Cancer Society: Myelodysplastic Syndrome Prognostic Scores Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation Blood Cancer United: MDS Diagnosis HealthTree Foundation Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation: What Is MDS? To discuss the information in this episode with other oncology nurses, visit the ONS Communities.  To find resources for creating an ONS Podcast club in your chapter or nursing community, visit the ONS Podcast Library. To provide feedback or otherwise reach ONS about the podcast, email pubONSVoice@ons.org. Highlights From This Episode "In the bone marrow maturation process, you have a pluripotent stem cell. You have myeloid and lymphoid, and then on the myeloid side, you make your white blood cells, your red blood cells, and your platelets. And during that maturation process, there's this problem that arises. It's called a clonal variation. Or something goes wrong as the cells go through that process year after year. It's called ineffective hematopoiesis. ... That process of becoming mature, functioning cells, arising from that hematopoietic stem cell is broken, and this leads to low blood counts. Usually, it's anemia, so the hemoglobin is low. You can see that the mean corpuscular volume (MCV) is really high, and those are clues that a patient might have MDS—anemia with a high MCV." TS 3:05 "The International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS) was the first way that we staged MDS into lower-risk and higher-risk disease. Now we have the IPSS-R, which is the revised system. And that was intended to be a way of classifying patients into lower-risk or higher-risk disease, where we talked about the goals being different. And it's really looking at the depth of the cytopenias, so how low are those neutrophils? How low is the hemoglobin and the platelet level? What percentage of blast does the patient have in their bone marrow? [This] gauges whether they have lower-risk or higher-risk disease. And now that we have the Molecular International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS-M), we also take into account the variants that a patient has and that can really change whether you think they have lower-risk or higher-risk disease." TS 8:46 "During a person's lifetime, if they were a heavy smoker, we always think of lung cancer, but it can actually predispose a person to MDS. If they worked heavily in chemicals. I can remember more than one patient who worked for pesticide companies. Repeated exposure to these things that can affect our blood cells cumulatively, they can make a person more prone to MDS. Also, patients who have family members who have had bone marrow problems." TS 13:39 "The way I explain it to patients who say, 'What does dysplasia mean?' I say, 'Well, if you had a picture of a face. If the cell has too many eyes, or one eye above the other or below the other, or too many ears, or they're just disfigured. They don't look right and they don't mature normally.' And so, the descriptions I frequently see are nuclear budding and micromegakaryocytes. Once you read a lot of the reports, you start to pick out, 'Okay, these are the terms that go along with dysplastic red blood cells or dysplastic megakaryocytes,' which are your precursors to platelets." TS 21:28 "The cytogenetics and the variants—that's a hard concept to explain to patients. And staying current on how we understand the disease and how it evolves. Now we have pre-MDS states called clonal cytopenia of undetermined significance. That was new to me. And then clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate significance. And some of those clones have other healthcare problems that go along with them." TS 30:52

In this episode, Rebecca Baute, BSN, RN, Chief Nurse Executive of Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital, and Brittany Barasa, DNP, RN, Manager of Patient Care for Nursing Throughput and PCT Float Pool, join the podcast to discuss how executive leadership support drives frontline success. They share insights on initiatives like annual nursing skills days, strategies for identifying and managing bottlenecks, the impact of discharge lounges, and approaches to improving patient satisfaction across the care continuum.

In this episode, Rebecca Baute, BSN, RN, Chief Nurse Executive of Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital, and Brittany Barasa, DNP, RN, Manager of Patient Care for Nursing Throughput and PCT Float Pool, join the podcast to discuss how executive leadership support drives frontline success. They share insights on initiatives like annual nursing skills days, strategies for identifying and managing bottlenecks, the impact of discharge lounges, and approaches to improving patient satisfaction across the care continuum.

The Daily Shower Thoughts podcast is produced by Klassic Studios. [Promo] Check out the Daily Dad Jokes podcast here: https://dailydadjokespodcast.com/ [Promo] Like the soothing background music and Amalia's smooth calming voice? Then check out "Terra Vitae: A Daily Guided Meditation Podcast" here at our show page [Promo] The Daily Facts Podcast. Get smarter in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Facts website. [Promo] The Daily Life Pro Tips Podcast. Improve your life in less than 10 minutes a day. Pod links here Daily Life Pro Tips website. [Promo] Check out the Get Happy Headlines podcast by my friends, Stella and Mickey. It's a podcast dedicated to bringing you family friendly uplifting stories from around the world. Give it a listen, I know you will like it. Pod links here Get Happy Headlines website. Shower thoughts are sourced from reddit.com/r/showerthoughts Shower Thought credits: QuantumDreamer41, SerDuckOfPNW, MigBird, JesseBlueMan123, outspokentourist, BuckleUpItsThe, weirdbeardwolf, dankantspelle, TheRichTookItAll, wikowiko33, InSearchOfLostT1me, banana_cognac20oz, levitating_cucumber, riri1281, areyourowin, Biscuit_Moaner, , MrFeature_1, A_Mirabeau_702, , _chicken_alfredo_, obtusemoose2000, jadethefirefox, sacktorious, FliesOnRedShit, TheFrostyjayjay, Royal_Tumbleweed_910, andreasdagen, CHEESE-DA-BEST, kallenl8 Podcast links: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ZNciemLzVXc60uwnTRx2e Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-shower-thoughts/id1634359309 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/daily-dad-jokes/daily-shower-thoughts iHeart: https://iheart.com/podcast/99340139/ Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a5a434e9-da18-46a7-a434-0437ec49e1d2/daily-shower-thoughts Website: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/dailyshowerthoughts Social media links Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DailyShowerThoughtsPodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DailyShowerPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DailyShowerThoughtsPodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dailyshowerthoughtspod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You'll love this amazing story of an oncology nurse who reads patients' energy, communicates with their organs, and shifts them into a higher frequency of health and well-being. Today, Energy Intuitive, Psychic Medium, and author Marie Manuchehri, RN, is a world-renowned healer and teacher with decades of healing experience. In her private practice, Marie cares for clients around the world by providing effective insights into their health issues and mediumship to help them connect with loved ones on the Other Side. She has a bi-monthly live podcast, The Joyful Intuitive Podcast, and is the author of Intuitive Self-Healing and How to Communicate with Your Spirit Guides. More info at her website: www.energyintuitive.com More info about Rev Sue at www.SueFrederick.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stephanie Hodge is currently co-starring in the two popular series, The Comeback starring Lisa Kudrow and Jury Duty Presents Company Retreat. She got her start in stand-up comedy and appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, HBO's The 13th Annual Young Comedians Special, as well as various other programs. She has also co-starred in the series Unhappily Ever After, My Talk Show, and Nurses as well as guest starring on countless series such as NCIS, King of the Hill, Good Luck Charlie, Bones, The Rookie, NCIS: Los Angeles, and Young Sheldon.

To mark the sixth anniversary of Raise the Line from Elsevier we're revisiting one of the most remarkable stories we've had the privilege of sharing over the last 575 episodes. To do that, we're delighted to welcome back Dr. David Fajgenbaum, a physician-scientist who repurposed an existing medication that saved his own life from Castleman disease, an ultra-rare condition that nearly killed him on five occasions. Because there was no treatment specifically for Castleman, Dr. Fajgenbaum set out to find a previously approved medication that might work. “I eventually found a drug that was made for another disease 50 years ago. It's been over 12 years that I've been doing great on this medicine.”   When he first joined us in 2022, Dr. Fajgenbaum was just launching a non-profit organization called Every Cure with the hope of replicating the success he achieved in his own case, and as you'll learn in this inspiring interview with host Lindsey Smith, its work has already saved thousands of lives. “It's a tragedy if someone dies while there's already a drug in their local hospital that could help them.”  In the latest installment of our Year of the Zebra series on rare conditions, you'll hear an inspiring example of a life saved by this approach and also learn about: The role of artificial intelligence in scanning thousands of medications and diseases to find possible matches; How Every Cure decides which drugs merit the costly research needed to confirm a match;  Dr. Fajgenbaum's philosophy of “living in overtime.” Mentioned in this episode:Every Cure Osmosis Video on Castleman Disease Dr. Fajgenbaum's Bestselling Memoir, Chasing My Cure If you like this podcast, please share it on your social channels. You can also subscribe to the series and check out all of our episodes at www.osmosis.org/podcast

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What does it really look like to build a business from the ground up while balancing family, finances, and faith? In this episode, I sit down with sisters Wendy Jules and Carla Nelson to talk about their journey from nursing careers to founding a thriving med spa in Brooklyn. They share how they started with limited resources, leaned on community support, and turned a single machine in a basement into a profitable, purpose-driven business. We also talk about the financial realities of entrepreneurship, the flexibility and power of nursing as a career, and why relationships are often more valuable than money when building something meaningful. In this episode, Wendy and Carla discuss: How nursing can be a pathway to financial freedom and flexibility What it took to start and fund a med spa with limited capital The role of relationships, community, and trust in building a business Why customer experience and connection are key to long-term success  What's New in the Paperback Edition of Your Journey to Financial Freedom: A bonus chapter: When Life Happens: Staying on the Path to Financial Freedom Through Setbacks, Shifts, and Uncertainty A book club and discussion guide with prompts, exercises, and action steps Updated corrections from the original hardcover Exclusive bonuses when you purchase the paperback, including: The Fire Starter Course The Find Your FIRE Number Worksheet Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode: Check out Naseema's episodes on Journey to Launch Paying Off $1 Million Dollars of Debt With "The Debt Slayer" Naseema McElroy How This Nurse Earns $230K Salary While Balancing Motherhood & Entrepreneurship How Single Mom Naseema Went From Broke To Paying Off $300,000 in Debt Check out the FIRE Calc Get your paperback edition of Your Journey To Financial Freedom if you haven't already. Apply to Share Your Journeyer Story, here. Join the Journey to Launch Book Club to dive deeper into financial freedom with guided discussions and resources here! Join The Weekly Newsletter List to get updates, deals & more! Leave Your Journey To Financial Freedom a review! Get The Budget Bootcamp Check out my personal website here. Leave me a voicemail– Leave me a question on the Journey To Launch voicemail and have it answered on the podcast! YNAB –  Start managing your money and budgeting so that you can reach your financial dreams. Sign up for a free 34 days trial of YNAB, my go-to budgeting app by using my referral link. What stage of the financial journey are you on? Are you working on financial stability or work flexibility? Find out with this free assessment and get a curated list of the 10 next best episodes for you to listen to depending on your stage. Check it out here! Connect with Wendy & Carla: Website: www.fdlbeauty.com Instagram:@fleurdelisbeauty Visit them at 1468 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York Connect with me: Instagram: @Journeytolaunch Twitter: @JourneyToLaunch Facebook: @Journey To Launch Join the Private Facebook Group Join the Waitlist for My FI Course Get The Free Jumpstart Guide  

In the Last Big War we threw in America we still had "Camp Followers" to do the laundry, the nursing and a good amount of the cooking (not to mention helping with loading guns).  And George Washington hated having these women around so much that Army practice - and new war philosophies got rid of most of them.  But then, the American Civil War started producing injured guys in the 1000's.Suddenly having women around to do nursing and laundry was important.  And they had to call the women back.  To be fair - they did it more officially this time. To find out who these women were - and what they fed you - listen in.Also - Spoiler:  Still better to be an officer.Books Referenced:A Mother's Work: Mary Ann Bickerdyke by Mary VangorderThe Big Burn by Timothy EganMusic Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor TurtleShow Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood at gmail dot comThreads: @THoAFoodInstagram: @THoAFood& some other socials... @THoAFood

NurseKind AI (nursekindai.com) transcribes and analyzes real audio recordings of nursing student interactions and gives scored feedback on empathy, therapeutic communication, and clinical judgment in about 90 seconds. Simulation tools cover clinical knowledge through text-based scenarios. NurseKind AI covers the other side: how students actually talk to patients, whether they listen, and whether empathy comes through in the conversation. Built by a psychiatric nurse practitioner and nursing faculty member, NurseKind AI is a solution for programs dealing with faculty shortages and limited assessment time. A free pilot is available, up to 100 assessments, with no commitment. You can contact the developer at hi@nursekindai.com.  

Climate and planetary health shape the environments in which people live and, therefore, are central to nursing's mission to protect health and reduce inequities. Climate change drives heat-related illness, extreme weather, poor air quality, shifting infectious diseases, and food and water insecurity—all of which increase disease burden and disproportionately harm vulnerable populations. Nurses are often the first and most trusted professionals to encounter these impacts, but they frequently lack formal preparation in this area. In this podcast and article, Dr. Heide Cygan discusses the need for faculty development on climate and planetary health to thread these areas into the curriculum to prepare graduates to care holistically of patients.

After Japan invades the Philippines, the twelve Navy nurses find themselves imprisoned at a military hospital turned P.O.W. camp. They make the best of it, continuing to tend to their patients, confident that the American military will quickly defeat Japan and liberate them. But as the weeks drag into months, with no rescue in sight, the nurses are transferred to another camp. They soon discover that their new home is led by a sadistic commandant who likes nothing more than to make his prisoners miserable. Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Against the Odds ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Today, Hunter was joined by Maureen Hanlon and Anita Tabb, two people fighting to change how Missouri treats people with mental illness in the states jails and prisons. Under Missouri law, a person who is found incompetent to stand trial is to have a competency evaluation conducted within 60 days of the court ordering it. Yet, people are often waiting 6 months just to be evaluated, and on average, people are spending 14 months in custody before they get the mental healthcare they are owed. Today, we are talking about the lawsuit aiming to change this practice.     Guest: Maureen Hanlon, Attorney, Arch City Defenders Anita Tabb, Nurse and Mother of M, a Class Member in this class action law suit   Resources: Read More About the Suit Here https://www.macarthurjustice.org/advocates-sue-missouri-department-of-mental-health-for-failing-to-treat-pretrial-detainees-living-with-mental-illness-and-disabilities/ https://www.macarthurjustice.org/advocates-seek-preliminary-injunction-to-order-dmh-to-remedy-harms-caused-by-egregious-competency-waitlist/ https://missouriindependent.com/2026/02/05/more-than-500-missourians-await-court-ordered-mental-health-services-languishing-in-jails/ https://www.macarthurjustice.org/case/darrington-et-al-v-missouri-dmh/   Learn More About Arch City Defenders Here https://www.archcitydefenders.org/     Contact Hunter Parnell:                                 Publicdefenseless@gmail.com  Instagram @PublicDefenselessPodcast Twitter                                                                 @PDefenselessPod www.publicdefenseless.com  Subscribe to the Patreon www.patreon.com/PublicDefenselessPodcast  Donate on PayPal https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5KW7WMJWEXTAJ Donate on Stripe https://donate.stripe.com/7sI01tb2v3dwaM8cMN Trying to find a specific part of an episode? Use this link to search transcripts of every episode of the show! https://app.reduct.video/o/eca54fbf9f/p/d543070e6a/share/c34e85194394723d4131/home **** ALL OPINONS SHARED BY HOST HUNTER PARNELL DO NOT REFLECT THE THOUGHTS OR OPINIONS OF THE AURORA MUNICIPAL PUBLIC DEFENDER****

Hey friend! I am so glad you are here today, because this episode — this one right here — is one I have been genuinely excited to bring to you. Have you ever had that quiet, persistent feeling that God is calling you to something more — something beyond the bedside — but you did not know what to do with it? Maybe you have been faithful to your nursing career, you have given it everything, and yet there is this stirring in your spirit that will not go away. Like there is something else. Something bigger. Something you were built for that your nursing license alone cannot contain. If that resonates with you — stay right where you are. Because today's guest was made for this conversation. I have the honor of introducing you to Leniesha Norwood. Leniesha is a critical care nurse, a homeschool mom, an entrepreneur, a Holy Spirit-led coach, and the host of the Nurse to CEO Podcast. She brings over two decades of healthcare experience to everything she does — and she has spent that time not just caring for patients, but paying attention to what God was building in her through every single shift. She mentors nurses who feel that tension — the one so many of you know — between serving faithfully at the bedside and sensing God calling them to more.  In today's episode, Leniesha is unpacking something that I think is going to genuinely shift how you see yourself. Because here is the truth she is going to walk you through: you have been trained in far more than patient care. The skills you use every single day at the bedside; your ability to teach, to lead under pressure, to simplify complex information, to guide people through some of the hardest moments of their lives.... those are not just nursing skills. Those are Kingdom skills. Those are coaching skills. Those are the skills that build something that lasts beyond a 12-hour shift. Romans 11:29 says: "For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable." That means what God placed in you did not expire at the bedside. And today, Leneisha is going to help you start seeing that clearly. Now — I also want to make sure you know about something special she has coming up. On April 22nd at 11:30 AM Eastern, Leniesha is hosting the RN to CEO Shift Workshop — and it is going exactly where today's conversation is going, only deeper. She is going to walk you through how your nursing skills translate into coaching, mentorship, online business, and Kingdom-centered impact. Real examples. Practical steps. And the clarity you have been looking for about what your "next" could actually look like. You must be registered to attend or receive the replay. Go to rnskills.theconsecratedceo.com. I'll be there! You don't want to miss it!  Shalom Shalom,  Xx, Shan  ……CONNECT…… The Nurse to CEO Podcast www.Theconsecratedceo.com Hello@theconsecratedceo.com The STAT Protocol: 5 min Nervous system Reset + Mental Shift for Burnt Out                   Nurses (free gift) Take the Free QUIZ-  Are you in burnout or just stressed??

Ike Reese, Spike Eskin, and Jack Fritz evaluate the Eagles' salary cap hurdles and potential roster moves during the draft. They also critique Nick Nurse's decision to attend a Phillies game while preparing for the playoffs.

Remember the Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks movie, “Catch Me If You Can”? Leo's character pretended to be everything from an airline pilot to a doctor. Well, the good news here is that Autumn wasn't either of those… but she DID have a job she shouldn't have had in this Setting the Bar story! Sound: https://www.newser.com/story/387052/florida-woman-in-strange-fake-nurse-case-learns-her-fate.html

Recently, Mom and I shared coffee with a man who helped shape our lives decades ago. He wasn't a celebrity. He didn't make headlines. He was a caregiver at Mercy Hospital's burn unit, and we came to know him as Nurse Roy. Let me explain.

In this episode, Laura talks all about sales. She shares why so many nurses avoid sales and how that avoidance quietly blocks both impact and income. The truth is, sales is not a personality trait you either have or don't. It is a skill. And like any clinical skill, it gets stronger with practice. The real issue is not a lack of certifications or knowledge. It is mindset, experience, and a willingness to actually try.You will hear a powerful reframe on what you are really selling. Not sessions. Not time. Transformation. Outcomes. A version of your client that does not exist yet but absolutely could. Shelby also breaks down what makes someone say yes, how to lead a clean and ethical sales conversation, and why “maybe” is often just fear in disguise.If you have ever worried about being too new, too inexperienced, or too uncomfortable to charge, this episode calls that out directly. You do not need to be perfect to create value. You need to show up, hold space, and trust the process.Because at the end of the day, avoiding sales is not staying safe. It is staying stuck. And the people you are meant to help stay stuck right along with you.Connect with us:Instagram: @successfulnursecoachesWebsite: www.thesuccessfulnursecoaches.comJoin our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thesuccessfulnursecoachWatch full episode on YouTube:https://youtu.be/QbNVOJiVnbIMentioned in this episode:Apply for Nurse Coach Residency here: https://www.thesuccessfulnursecoaches.com/maketheleapwithTSNC

In this episode of Perspektives with Bank, Big Bank sits down with Angel Love for an inspiring conversation about career transitions, motherhood, and personal growth. From her beginnings in nursing to stepping into the spotlight of reality TV, Angel shares the challenges and rewards of navigating two demanding worlds. She emphasizes the importance of compassion in healthcare, balancing ambition with family life, and the empowerment of Black women striving to build success on their own terms. The conversation also dives into faith, mental health, and cultural identity, as Angel reflects on her roots in New Orleans and how they shaped her resilience, energy, and outlook on life. She discusses the impact of social media, the importance of self-care, and the balance between holistic and traditional approaches to wellness. Tune in and join the conversation in the socials below. Rate, subscribe, comment and share. Follow Perspektives With Bank on IG @perspektiveswithbank @iloveangel2See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's the Depression and twenty-three-year-old-Dorothy Still is desperate for a job. She joins the US Navy as a nurse, and by 1941, she's given a dream posting at an American base in the Philippines. Dorothy lives in a beautiful location, with easy work, and a thriving night life. But after the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, the Philippines becomes Japan's next target. Dorothy and eleven other Navy nurses find themselves in an active war zone, with a conquering army bearing down.Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Against the Odds ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What does Parkinson's smell like? Ask nurse Joy Milne. Born with a hypersensitive nose, she spent a lifetime learning to recognize diseases through their scents. When she smelled Parkinson's on her husband years before his diagnosis, she decided to put her gift to the test. Today, her extraordinary nose has been translated into a non-invasive test — helping researchers diagnose what was right under their noses all along.Learn more about our flagship conference happening this April at attend.ted.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.