Sheila Wilson has been a nurse for decades, but is still out there advocating and supporting nurses. Have you been a victim of healthcare violence and didn’t get the support you needed? Sheila will talk about how to find resources and continues to fight to decrease the incidence of assault and battery of our bedside nurses.

Ashley Hughes has been a Legal Nurse Consultant for several years and is back this season to talk about implications when standards of care have been breached. She will share tips on documentation and how to learn more about standards of care. Ashley also discusses how this impacts travel nurses, and how to become familiar with the state or facility that they are working in. Don’t miss out on this very informative episode!

June was excited about her new job in a facility caring for patients with mental health issues, but then it was cut short by a violent act from one of the patients. She shares her story with how she is healing both physically and emotionally from that dark time, and hopes that she can help others that have been the victim of violence in the workplace.

Rasheda Hatchett is helping our leaders and organizations understand what nurses need to be resilient and have healthy work environments. Do you want ideas to take back to your own leaders about how to start turning the ship to improve your work life? You will get some strategic tips from Rasheda on how to start the transition for improvement.

Nasrin “Nas” Parsian has spent years researching chronic health conditions, specifically DM Type I, and how spirituality and inner wellness can affect the outcome of those disease processes. She now teaches others how to best help our ourselves, and our patients, live healthier lives by utilizing a holistic approach. Join your host Beth Quaas in this episode as she has a delightful conversation with Nas.

Tessa Hayman is a RN in Canada that worked through her own burnout and is now helping other healthcare providers do the same. She has a unique perspective on burnout and how it affects all members of the team. Dealing with moral injury and vicarious trauma as causes of burnout will be points of her discussion. Tessa is very knowledgeable about what leads to burnout and her story will leave you wanting to hear more from her.

JoNeil Smith Conley has been in nursing for many years. Nurse bullying was something that she saw happen and knew that it needed to change. So what did she do? She did her doctoral dissertation on bullying and came up with very interesting information, as well as solutions to deal with it.

It’s not where you go, it’s what you see once you’re there. Travel slowly and experience more.

It’s the end of Season One!

It’s not where you go, it’s what you see once you’re there. Travel slowly and experience more.

Ivette Palomeque didn’t run from Covid, she ran towards it. As an RN with 10 years of ICU experience, she took her knowledge and worked as a traveling ICU nurse in some of the hardest-hit hotspots of the pandemic. Listen to her story of what it was really like and the toll that it’s taking on the people delivering care to the sickest of patients.

Katie Walker saw the gap in mental health care and decided to take matters into her own hands. In today’s episode, Katie is going to tell us how she helps people with mental health problems and how she reaches out to the often-overlooked frontline workers, including nurses, physicians, law enforcement personnel, and veterans. Katie also focuses her efforts on athletes that sometimes need help with the stress and pressure they are under in performing at the top of their game.

Ashley Hughes realized that her career wouldn’t always be as a bedside nurse. She found her passion in becoming a Legal Nurse Consultant. Ashley will inspire you to find what you love to do and then go all in. Are you ready to take a new direction in your nursing career? Ashley may have the answers for you in today’s episode.

Maureen Osuna chose nursing as a career later in life than most traditional students do. She believes that has helped her become the amazing mentor that she is today for students in nursing school. In this episode, Maureen shares her story of how she came to be a nursing educator in a non-traditional way – and why her followers love her!

Eboni Gee is a RN that found she has so much more to give as a nurse that doesn’t necessarily have to do with patient care. Eboni took her knowledge and passion and turned them into a goldmine of information to help others. Listen as she recounts her time from when she was part of a busy dialysis unit to now as someone transforming the lives of countless people with her skills as a nurse entrepreneur and podcast host.

After working in the OR for years, Tammy Jacobs finally decided that she had had enough of its hierarchy. How did she find the courage to leave her job? She’ll tell you it wasn’t easy but that it was the right thing to do. Tune in to listen to her story of making the leap from hospital nursing to entrepreneurship.

What do you do when you’ve had enough of bedside nursing? You turn to teaching other nurses. That is what Shane Slone decided to do. Listen to a great conversation about the toll that his experience as an ICU nurse took on him and how he chose not to leave nursing but to use all of his knowledge to help others.

Denise Crawley works for all nurses by helping them to understand their basic rights. She developed the Nurses’ Rights Association in Canada and is now working with nurses around the globe to change the culture of nursing so that our basic rights are recognized and respected.

Haley Bretl learned early in her life what burnout was all about. After working in many different nursing roles, Haley began to realize that she wasn’t who she wanted to be. Is there life after burnout in nursing? Yes there is, and Haley will tell you how she changed her life and now wants to be Your Biggest Fan!

Keeonna Williams knows first hand what it is like to suffer from burnout and come out better on the other side. From being in the ICU after suffering from a TIA, to a locum assignment on a Pacific Island, Keeonna will share her healing story and inspire us all to make the change now to care for ourselves.