http://nursingnoteslive.com Nursing Notes Live, is a series brought to you by the Johnson and Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future, delivers exclusive interviews from the Campaign’s award-winning monthly e-newsletter Nursing Notes. The show is hosted by fellow nurse, Jamie Davis. Wed, 15 May 2013 12:16:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Nursing Notes Live, a twice-monthly podcast series brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future, delivers exclusive interviews and news segments that provide further insight on topics featured in the award-winning monthly e-newsletter Nursing Notes. The e-newsletter offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. Each month, there will be two all-new episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content in Nursing Notes. The series is hosted by fellow nurse and podcast producer, Jamie Davis. Check out www.NursingNotesLive.com to subscribe to all episodes of this podcast and www.discovernursing.com to subscribe to Nursing Notes. Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S podmedic@mac.com podmedic@mac.com (Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S) MedicCast Productions, LLC Nursing Notes Live, a series brought to you by the Campaign for Nursing’s Future, delivers exclusive interviews from the Campaign’s award-winning monthly e-newsletter Nursing Notes. The podcast is hosted by fellow nurse, Jamie Davis nurse,nursing,rn,student nurse,nursing student,patient care,patient care plan,nurse career,career,nursing career http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/NNLive-New_600ppi-757.jpg http://nursingnoteslive.com TV-G http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/05/healthcare-and-environmental-sustainability-nurse-panel-discussion/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/05/healthcare-and-environmental-sustainability-nurse-panel-discussion/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 12:16:31 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=268 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/05/healthcare-and-environmental-sustainability-nurse-panel-discussion/feed/ 0 environment,healthcare,hospital,jamie davis,nurse,nursing,podmedic,sustainability Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue is accompanied by select few episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which expands on the content and provides you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast! With your host, Jamie Davis from the Nursing Show and MedicCast online programs. In the program this month, Nursing Notes Live will be taking a look at sustainability in healthcare and the efforts of nurses to move their facilities toward greener, environmentally sustainable initiatives. In our panel discussion this month, I chat with nurse Hermine Levey Weston, Facility Engagement Manager with Practice Greenhealth and Laura Wenger, a registered nurse and Executive Director of Practice Greenhealth. Here’s that nursing panel discussion. -------- Make sure you check out the entire April 2013 issue of Nursing Notes, looking at nurses and environmental sustainability. You can read the entire issue online at www.discovernursing.com and don’t miss the other Nursing Notes Live episode this month bringing you our Get to Know Nurse, Charlotte Wallace, who won an environmental sustainability award for her efforts in her facility. You’ll find this and other podcast episodes at the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page, and in the podcast area in iTunes.   Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 23:22 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/05/get-to-know-nurse-charlotte-wallace-on-green-healthcare-initiatives/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/05/get-to-know-nurse-charlotte-wallace-on-green-healthcare-initiatives/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 12:06:52 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=263 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/05/get-to-know-nurse-charlotte-wallace-on-green-healthcare-initiatives/feed/ 0 Charlotte Wallace,environment,green,hospital,sustainability Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue is accompanied by select few episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which expands on the content and provides you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast! With your host, Jamie Davis from the Nursing Show and MedicCast online programs. In the program this month, Nursing Notes Live will be taking a look at sustainability in healthcare and the efforts of nurses to move their facilities toward greener, environmentally sustainable initiatives. Our Get to Know Nurse this month is Charlotte Wallace, RN who recently received the Nursing Leadership in Environmental Health Award from the Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment. I chatted with Charlotte recently about her initiatives and how other nurses can learn how to duplicate what she’s done to reduce waste and environmental impact. ------- Make sure you check out the entire April 2013 issue of Nursing Notes, looking at nurses and environmental sustainability. You can read the entire issue online at www.discovernursing.com and don't miss the other Nursing Notes Live episode this month bringing you two nurses who are very active in supporting initiatives around greener healthcare settings. You'll find this and other podcast episodes at the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page, and in the podcast area in iTunes. Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 16:10 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/04/diabetes-education-in-nursing-panel-discussion/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/04/diabetes-education-in-nursing-panel-discussion/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:16:35 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=255 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/04/diabetes-education-in-nursing-panel-discussion/feed/ 0 cynthia watson,diabetes,education,marjorie cypress,nurse,nursing The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue is accompanied by select few episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which expands on the content and provides you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast! I'm your host, Jamie Davis. This month, Nursing Notes Live takes a look at nurses who work with and educate our patients with diabetes. With 26 million adults and children struggling with this disease and millions more at risk for developing diabetes, nurses who specialize in diabetes care and education will have their work cut out for them. Our panel discussion this month includes Marjorie Cypress, President-Elect for Health Care and Education with the American Diabetes Association, and Cynthia Watson, a nurse practitioner specializing in caring for patients with diabetes. Let's see what they have to share. Closing: Don't forget to check out the March 2013 issue of Nursing Notes, highlighting the work of nurses in caring for and educating people with diabetes. You can read the entire issue online at www.discovernursing.com and don't miss the other Nursing Notes Live episode this month with our "Get to Know" nurse Lynda Stallwood as she shares her path as a nurse and how she became involved with caring for diabetic patients. You'll find this and other podcast episodes at the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page, and in the podcast area in iTunes. Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 23:38 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/04/diabetes-nurse-practitioner-lynda-stallwood-on-her-nursing-career/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/04/diabetes-nurse-practitioner-lynda-stallwood-on-her-nursing-career/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:46:42 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=235 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/04/diabetes-nurse-practitioner-lynda-stallwood-on-her-nursing-career/feed/ 0 diabetes,get to know nurse,lynda stallwood,nurse,nursing,nursing notes live Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue is accompanied by select few episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which expands on the content and provides you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast! I’m your host, Jamie Davis. This month, Nursing Notes Live takes a look at nurses who work with and educate our patients with diabetes. With 26 million adults and children struggling with this disease and millions more at risk for developing diabetes, nurses who specialize in diabetes care and education will have their work cut out for them. This month’s featured “Get to Know Nurse” is Lynda Stallwood. Recently, I got the chance to chat with Lynda about her nursing career and her important work with patients living with diabetes. ------- Jamie Davis:         Lynda, let’s start off with asking you how you decided to become a nurse. What encouraged you that nursing was a career you wanted to follow? Lynda Stallwood:     As a very young girl, my sister and I always knew in our hearts, as very young children, nursing was what we wanted to do. We grew up wearing nursing uniforms. I’m not exactly sure why I knew that. I’m not even sure I knew what a nurse was at the time. But it was in my heart to always provide care. We took care of sick animals, dead flies, all kinds of things. It was just that caring gene perhaps that my family has. I am one of many nurses in my family. So it was just only something that was deep within my heart. I didn’t have the opportunity to go to nursing school until after my children were born. But once I did, I went into it full-fledged. I knew it was just what I needed to be. I think even as my children were born and growing, I saw that there tended to be a gap sometimes between the medical profession and taking care of your child at home. And I felt like if I could help bridge that gap as a nurse with educating my patients, empowering them to answer my questions, of your healthcare provider, that that’ll be very gratifying. Perhaps as important in their care is providing the correct medication is also providing them the tools that they need to navigate the healthcare system. Jamie:                   I agree completely. There’s so much about our current healthcare system that requires even more skills and navigating it. So it’s really important. I agree that nurses need to be the pilots for our patients to navigate that system. Lynda:                   Yes, absolutely. Jamie:                   So tell me a little bit about how you decided or what drove you into becoming a diabetes care specialist. There’s a lot of things that nurses go through and we come in contact with a lot of different specialties but something in diabetes care keep your interest. Lynda:                   It is. It was a particular young woman, I was working at a general peds unit at the time. This was over 25 years ago. She came in – she was about 10 years of age - she and her parents came in with a diagnosis of “rule out diabetes.” And they were very calm. They were very attentive. They presented themselves as very confident. That no matter what they will be able to handle the diagnosis which is wonderful. As the care progress and lab tests revealed it was in fact this young woman had Type 1 diabetes. So we started all the education. She was learning how to draw for insulin, test her blood sugar. She was going on a diet and exercise and lifestyle changes and all of those things that are part of diabetes care and management. Her parents were very active, very supportive. Everybody was just – “We can handle this, Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 25:37 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/03/nurse-philanthropy-volunteer-panel-discussion/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/03/nurse-philanthropy-volunteer-panel-discussion/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:41:24 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=223 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/03/nurse-philanthropy-volunteer-panel-discussion/feed/ 0 philanthropy,volunteer nurses The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Note... Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 28:10 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/03/nurse-philanthropy-interview-with-lynn-erdman/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/03/nurse-philanthropy-interview-with-lynn-erdman/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:15:04 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=224 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2013/03/nurse-philanthropy-interview-with-lynn-erdman/feed/ 0 lynn erdman,nurse,nursing,philanthropy,volunteer nurses,volunteers The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Note... Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 18:10 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2012/01/nursing-notes-live-2011-year-in-review/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2012/01/nursing-notes-live-2011-year-in-review/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:40:29 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=216 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2012/01/nursing-notes-live-2011-year-in-review/feed/ 0 ann mayo,cyndy krening,jackie grandt,jamie davis,mary ann gapinsky,mary anne kenyon,nickie damico,nurse,nursing notes live,pamela johnson,sally schoessler,susan bruce The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue will be accompanied by a couple of episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content and provide you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or NursingNotesLive.com; or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast! Student nurses – now you too can submit your photo to be included in the Campaign’s Portrait of Thanks Mosaic Project! For every photo uploaded by February 1, 2012, the Campaign will donate one dollar to the Foundation of the National Student Nurses Association to help fund nursing student scholarships. Submit your photo today at www.campaignfornursing.com/portraitofthanks. The Campaign also encourages you to check out the recently launched Short Takes: Narratives by Nurses video series! A group of nurses and one nursing student – people just like you – each filmed their very own videos, where they share their thoughts on their nursing careers. To watch the videos, visit the YouTube section of the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or www.youtube.com/JNJHealth. And congratulations to the Campaign’s Amazing Nurses contest winner Lillian Shockney! Find out more about Lillian and the contest finalists at the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page. I’m your host, Jamie Davis. This month’s issue of Nursing Notes highlights nurses giving back to patients and their communities. I took this opportunity to look back at this year’s episodes to pull out some of the best statements on what nursing is and how we all can share our skills in a broader way with those around us in both the facilities in which we work and our community at large. ------------- Early in 2011 I chatted with a panel of Oncology nurses including Jackie Grandt, Program Director, Outpatient Oncology Services at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center in California. Jackie shared her personal experience of the importance of nurses sharing their skills not just with helping patients but also through mentorship and clinical education of new nurses and nursing students. Jackie:  How I got into oncology nursing was during the final rotation in nursing school on an oncology unit. It was during that experience that I really identified an oncology nursing that there’s many challenges and there’s many rewards. That was what I was looking for in my nursing career. I wanted to be challenged and I wanted to feel that – every day I was learning something new and definitely with what I’ve seen over 30 years on oncology nursing that that’s been very true. For our new person, I agree with you having opportunity to spend some time and rotate in that area while you’re in training is absolutely an excellent way. Also identifying people who are already working in the field then asking to spend some time with them and learning from them how they got into it and what they do on a day-to-day basis and even developing maybe some opportunities for mentorship if you decide to go into that area and get the support because oncology nursing and oncology treatment can sometimes be really overwhelming. Along with mentorship is the importance of advancing your education and practice level as a nurse. As there is more and more focus on advanced practice nurses and the opportunities they might offer to improve health care systems nationwide, what opportunity and value is there for the patient care team to have access to resources like clinical nurses specialists.  Susan Bruce, Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 24:45 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/12/amazing-nurse-2011-lillian-shockney/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/12/amazing-nurse-2011-lillian-shockney/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:43:24 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=198 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/12/amazing-nurse-2011-lillian-shockney/feed/ 0 amazing nurse,johns hopkins,johnson & johnson,lillian shockney Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue will be accompanied by a couple of episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content and provide you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or NursingNotesLive.com; or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast! Student nurses – now you too can submit your photo to be included in the Campaign’s Portrait of Thanks Mosaic Project! For every photo uploaded by February 1, 2012, the Campaign will donate one dollar to the Foundation of the National Student Nurses Association to help fund nursing student scholarships. Submit your photo today at www.campaignfornursing.com/portraitofthanks. The Campaign also encourages you to check out the recently launched Short Takes: Narratives by Nurses video series! A group of nurses and one nursing student – people just like you – each filmed their very own videos, where they share their thoughts on their nursing careers. To watch the videos, visit the YouTube section of the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or www.youtube.com/JNJHealth. And congratulations to the Campaign’s Amazing Nurses contest winner Lillian Shockney! Find out more about Lillian and the contest finalists at the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page. I’m your host, Jamie Davis. This month’s featured “Get to Know Nurse” is Lillian Shockney, winner of the 2011 Amazing Nurses contest and Administrative Director, Johns Hopkins Breast Clinical Program. Lillie expressed her excitement of being named the 2011 Amazing Nurse and also talked about the importance of finding ways to expand beyond the basic nursing job description. Don't forget to check out the entire December 2011 issue of Nursing Notes, featuring inspirational stories about nurses like you giving back to patients and their communities. You can read the entire issue online at www.discovernursing.com and don’t miss this month’s other episode featuring a look back at highlights of some of the great nursing discussions we had this year on Nursing Notes Live. You’ll find this and other podcast episodes at www.NursingNotesLive.com, the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page, and in the podcast area in iTunes. Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 23:33 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/12/nurses-discuss-the-specialized-nature-of-medical-surgical-nursing/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/12/nurses-discuss-the-specialized-nature-of-medical-surgical-nursing/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:39:57 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=189 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/12/nurses-discuss-the-specialized-nature-of-medical-surgical-nursing/feed/ 0 Cynthia Steinwedel,Kathleen Latavo,med surg,medical surgical,nurse The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue will be accompanied by a couple of episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content and provide you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or NursingNotesLive.com; or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast! Be sure to check out the Campaign’s recently launched Short Takes: Narratives by Nurses video series at the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or www.youtube.com/JNJHealth! A group of nurses and one nursing student – people just like you – each filmed their very own videos, where they share their thoughts on their nursing careers. The Campaign also encourages you to upload your photo for the Portrait of Thanks Mosaic Project. For every photo of a nurse uploaded between now and February 1, 2012, the Campaign will donate one dollar to the Foundation of the National Student Nurses Association to help fund nursing student scholarships. Submit your photo today at www.campaignfornursing.com/portraitofthanks. And check out the five finalists of the Amazing Nurses Contest at the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page!  The Grand Prize Winner will be announced during the CNN Heroes: All-Star Tribute Show on December 11. I’m your host, Jamie Davis. This month we kick off our second season of Nursing Notes Live with a look into the lives and careers of medical-surgical nurses. This month’s panel discussion includes Kathleen Lattavo, a Clinical Nurse Specialist at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, Texas, and Cynthia Steinwedel, Assistant Professor and Sophomore Level Course Leader at Bradley University in Illinois. Listen to what these med-surg nurses have to say about the future of the specialty. INTERVIEW>>> Don't forget to check out the entire November 2011 issue of Nursing Notes, featuring med-surg nursing careers. This month’s Nursing Notes newsletter highlights the growing recognition of the med-surg specialty, the necessary skills of a med-surg nurse and provides information on nursing scholarship opportunities. You can read the entire issue online at www.discovernursing.com and don’t miss the other Nursing Notes Live episode this month and a special interview with our Get to Know Nurse, Kelly Hyde. You’ll find this and other podcast episodes at www.NursingNotesLive.com, the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page, and in the podcast area in iTunes. Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 34:24 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/12/kelly-hyde-and-her-get-to-know-nurse-journey-in-med-surg-nursing/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/12/kelly-hyde-and-her-get-to-know-nurse-journey-in-med-surg-nursing/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:35:47 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=183 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/12/kelly-hyde-and-her-get-to-know-nurse-journey-in-med-surg-nursing/feed/ 0 Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. 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Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 24:20 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/11/orthopaedic-nurses-share-their-careers-and-stories-on-nursing-notes-live/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/11/orthopaedic-nurses-share-their-careers-and-stories-on-nursing-notes-live/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:57:37 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=170 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/11/orthopaedic-nurses-share-their-careers-and-stories-on-nursing-notes-live/feed/ 0 arthritis,barbara kahn,joint replacement,knee replacement,mary anne kenyon,mary jo satusky,nurse,nursing,orthopaedic,rn The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue will be accompanied by a couple of episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content and provide you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or NursingNotesLive.com; or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast! The Campaign encourages you to check out its Portrait of Thanks Mosaic Project which invites nurses from around the world to submit a photo online to be part of a historical image of nursing. For every photo of a nurse uploaded between now and February 1, 2012, the Campaign will donate one dollar to the Foundation of the National Student Nurses Association to help fund nursing student scholarships. Submit your photo today at www.campaignfornursing.com/portraitofthanks. And check out the five finalists of the Amazing Nurses Contest at the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page! The Grand Prize Winner will be announced on December 11. I’m your host, Jamie Davis. This month marks the one year anniversary of Nursing Notes Live! In this month’s episode, Nursing Notes Live takes a look at the world of orthopaedic nursing. This month’s orthopaedic nursing panel discussion welcomes the President of the National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses, Mary Jo Satusky, Barbara Kahn,  nurse clinician at New York City’s Hospital for Special Surgery, and our “Get to Know Nurse” Mary Anne Kenyon, Nursing Director for Orthopaedics at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Join us as we talk about how they each got started as an orthopaedic nurse. Transcript of the Panel: Jamie:                         Mary Jo, why don’t we start with you and I’d like to ask you how you started as a nurse? What drew you to the nursing profession to begin with? Mary Jo:                      Well, my mother was a nurse. So I’m kind of second generation from that. I’ve actually been a nurse for 36 years and did a variety of roles of nursing. I worked at Med-Surg. I did some Coronary Care. I worked in a urologist office. I did some Obstetrics and Out-patient surgery. Then back in 1995, I got into orthopedics when I went to work there. My husband’s job had moved us around a bit. I was offered orthopedics or coronary care and I didn’t know anything about orthopedics so I thought it might be a good learning experience, something new. I went to work at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and they were willing to give me a chance. I really have to say that getting into orthopedics ended up to be kind of a turning point in my career. I realized I had found my niche after being a nurse for twenty years. I ended up getting certified in orthopedic nursing. It was the impetus for me to return to school to get my bachelor’s degree. I really became a professional. I became very involved in the hospital. We had shared governance. Then I joined the National Association of Orthopedic Nurses and now I’m president. Orthopedics really has spoken to my heart. Jamie:                         I really think it’s amazing how you have this passion for nursing and I see this in my own experience as a nurse as well as everyone else’s – most other nurses I talked to their passion as a nurse is there, but when they find that thing that really clicks for them it becomes really something even more special. Mary Jo:                      Yes, go from having a job to having a profession. Jamie:                         Barbara, what about you? Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 37:50 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/10/get-to-know-nurse-mary-anne-kenyon-and-orthopaedic-nursing/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/10/get-to-know-nurse-mary-anne-kenyon-and-orthopaedic-nursing/#comments Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:57:16 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=165 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/10/get-to-know-nurse-mary-anne-kenyon-and-orthopaedic-nursing/feed/ 0 brigham and women's hospital,joint replacement,knee replacement,mary anne kenyon,nurse,nursing,orthopaedic,rn The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - ... Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 26:55 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/10/nurses-make-the-best-patient-pain-champions/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/10/nurses-make-the-best-patient-pain-champions/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:35:18 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=158 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/10/nurses-make-the-best-patient-pain-champions/feed/ 0 ann schreier,barbara st marie,discover nursing,esther bernofer,jamie davis,johnson & johnson,nurse,nursing,pain management,podmedic Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue will be accompanied by a couple of episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content and provide you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or NursingNotesLive.com; or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast! The Campaign invites you to check out The Art of Nursing: A Portrait of Thanks Mosaic Project that invites nurses from around the world to submit photos online to be part of a historical image. For every photo uploaded between now and February 1, 2012, the Campaign will donate one dollar to the Foundation of the National Student Nurses Association to help fund nursing student scholarships. Submit your photo today at www.campaignfornursing.com/portraitofthanks. Also, vote on our Top 20 “Amazing Nurse” nominees at our facebook page between September 27 and October 18. In this month’s episode, Nursing Notes Live delves into the world of the pain management nurse. This month’s panel discussion includes Barbara St. Marie, Palliative Care Supervisor at Fairview Ridges Hospital, Ann Schreier, President of the American Society for Pain Management Nursing, and our “Get to Know Nurse” Esther Bernhofer, a Pain Research Nurse at the Nursing Institute of Medicine and Digestive Inpatient Cleveland Clinic. I asked them about their nursing careers and about the future challenges facing pain management nursing. Panel Discussion on Pain Management Nursing Jamie:                         Ann Schreier, I’d like to start with you. Let’s start with just asking how you became a nurse? What led you into the nursing profession and what led you into pain management as a career path there? Ann:                            Okay. Well, I sort of always wanted to be a nurse when I was a young girl. I got into nursing school at Boston University and really felt like, “Oh, this is where I want to be.” As I started in my first job in nursing, I was on a general medical unit, and I got to know some patients that were suffering from leukemia and really understood that there was a lot of distress that they had in their life. So that really was, “How am I going to, as a person, help them with that distress?” Then I moved to California and, lo and behold, I got a job at Stanford University in the Cancer Research Center. I found that in doing that job that I really became involved with patients. I sort of felt like I found my home in terms of these were patients that I could relate to and I thought I was doing something very important for them. To get into pain management it’s sort of began in that way because with cancer - and with cancer treatment in particular - often pain is a component of that. I gradually had an opportunity then to some research with helping patients in terms of education about their conditions and about the symptoms that they had. Moved on from there to starting to teach in nursing and then took some time to work in hospice. I think that it was really when I began working in hospice that I really got involved with pain management as an essential component. It evolved in that way. As I became an educator - more when I moved to North Carolina at East Carolina University - really came to see the impact of pain in all areas in which my students were experiencing patients and that there was a lot of misunderstanding about pain and about pain medications and risks of addictions. So there was clearly a real need for nurses to know more about that. Eventually, I became after taking a course at City of Hope for Nurse Educators and putting pain management into the curriculum really became involved with ASPMN. It was there, Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 33:27 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/09/pain-management-nurse-esther-bernhofer-shares-her-nursing-career-path/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/09/pain-management-nurse-esther-bernhofer-shares-her-nursing-career-path/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:34:54 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=156 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/09/pain-management-nurse-esther-bernhofer-shares-her-nursing-career-path/feed/ 0 esther bernhofer,jamie davis,nurse,nursing,pain management,podcast,podmedic Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each mo... Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 28:46 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/09/school-nurse-panelists-discuss-issues-in-school-and-public-health/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/09/school-nurse-panelists-discuss-issues-in-school-and-public-health/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:16:04 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=152 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/09/school-nurse-panelists-discuss-issues-in-school-and-public-health/feed/ 0 mary ann gapinsky,nasn,nursing,school nurse,sheila caldwell Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes – which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes – which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each... Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 33:38 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/08/school-nurse-sheila-caldwell-share-her-nursing-career/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/08/school-nurse-sheila-caldwell-share-her-nursing-career/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:25:33 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=147 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/08/school-nurse-sheila-caldwell-share-her-nursing-career/feed/ 0 Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue will be accompanied by a couple of episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content and provide you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or NursingNotesLive.com; or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast! Also check out the Campaign’s latest initiative, “Thank A Nurse,” which includes a new mobile app game, called Happy Nurse, available in the App Store and online at www.discovernursing.com and The Art of Nursing: A Portrait of Thanks Mosaic Project that invites nurses from around the world to submit photos online to be part of a historical image. Submit your photo at www.campaignfornursing.com. In this month’s episode, Nursing Notes Live goes back to school with a look at school nurses. This month’s Featured “Get to Know Nurse” Sheila Caldwell, took her background in hospital patient care and case management into the school setting as a school nurse in New Jersey. I asked her how she decided to become a nurse and how she became interested in caring for an entire school’s student population. Jamie:                         In this month’s episode, Nursing Notes Live goes back to school with a look at school nurses. This month’s featured Get-to-Know nurse, Sheila Caldwell, took her background in hospital patient care and case management into the school setting as a school nurse in New Jersey. I asked her how she decided to become a nurse and how she became interested in caring for an entire school’s student population. Sheila, tell us a little bit about what got you started in nursing, how you decided to become a nurse and your career path through school that led you here. Sheila:                       Okay. When I was a young girl, my mom was a social worker. She would always tell me that she had wanted to become a nurse but, financially and schooling-wise, she wasn’t able to do such. She guided me into that path of when I would see her out working and helping people and doing different things, I kind of said to myself I knew I wanted to do something in to the medical field but a little bit different than what she was doing as a social worker. I wanted to just make sure that I went into the direction of medical health in that fashion. She had told me she had been named after a nurse from years back and it really keep my interest and I did like the health sciences as far as when I was in high school and things and that was the career path I took. I started out as an LTN and one that really likes to enjoy education and things. I, then, as I was working on the Med-Surg floor, decided I wanted a little bit more and I wanted a little bit more. I went on to acquire my Associate degree of Registered Nurse. From there, still yearned for more education and decided to pursue my Bachelor’s tracking through intensive care and various other areas of nursing within the hospital realm and on to case management within a hospital. I ended up on a pediatric floor and that really interests me to track people from the beginning to the end and even at home with setting them up for their healthcare and tracking them to the system and then empowering them, the families of these children on this particular floor. Then from there decided, “Okay, I want to become a school nurse.” Jamie:                         When you got to be a school nurse, have you worked in the same school throughout your career as a school nurse? Sheila:                       No, I haven’t. I’ve been in a couple of different type of settings at schools. I’ve been in what they call in New Jersey, an “Abbott district school, Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 31:50 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/08/nurse-entrepreneurs-share-their-insights-into-nurses-in-business/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/08/nurse-entrepreneurs-share-their-insights-into-nurses-in-business/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:25:56 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=135 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/08/nurse-entrepreneurs-share-their-insights-into-nurses-in-business/feed/ 0 business,entrepreneur,nurse,nursing In this month’s episode, Nursing Notes Live looks at nurse entrepreneurs. Our panel discussion is joined by Patricia Bemis, President of the National Nurses In Business Association, LeaRae  Keyes, Executive Director of the Nurse Entrepreneur Network an... In this month’s episode, Nursing Notes Live looks at nurse entrepreneurs. Our panel discussion is joined by Patricia Bemis, President of the National Nurses In Business Association, LeaRae  Keyes, Executive Director of the Nurse Entrepreneur Network and Victoria Powell, founder and current President of VP Medical Consulting. I spoke with them about nurses in business and entrepreneurial positions. LeaRae, tell us a little bit about what you did when you decided to move out and work on your own and how that developed. LeaRae:                I have to backtrack a little bit more to probably the early ‘80s when I decided to go into sales because I wanted to be paid more for what I produced than a straight salary. Within six months of getting into sales, I won the national sales award for that company by applying the nursing process to sales which is basically assess, diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate. I found that by applying that process to sales, I was able to quickly soar above the other people who were in sales. I later became a marketing director for a rehabilitation company and I have a staff for which I was responsible. I became a full-time case manager in 1989 and then decided to start my own case management company in 1998. After several Intrapreneurships - an intrapreneurship is starting a division or a company within a company. I did that at least three times: trying a work comp rehabilitation model and applying a work comp case management model to catastrophic case management in healthcare; and then applying a case management model and starting a telephonic case management company. I can [share] that with nurses who wanted to own their own a company or had a company but lack the skills in sales and marketing skills. I decided to start the Nurse Entrepreneur Network which provides lots of information on sales and marketing skills for nurses. It provides other information but it really focuses on sales and marketing. Jamie:                  LeaRae, I like what you said about applying a nursing process, your critical thinking aspect of nursing to something that’s not nursing-centered or not patient-focused but really focusing on business. It’s very interesting that you found a way to apply that in other aspects of your life. LeaRae:                Yes. I think a lot of nurses don’t realize that they already have a lot of the skills and tools they need to go into business. Victoria:                I agree with LeaRae. I think the biggest thing that nurses are missing is not the critical thinking to get started in business but just the marketing and sales and asking for the business. That’s where nurses fall short. Jamie:                  I think it’s not uncommon. We’re not very good at tooting our own horns. We’re all about everyone else, right? That’s why we became nurses. We’re caring people. It’s hard to be the person who goes out and says, “Look what I’m doing. I can offer you something.” That’s not really something that we focus on in nursing very often. Victoria:                We’re educators. We like to share and we like to teach and that comes pretty naturally to most of us. But we don’t toot our own horns and I think we should do that more often. Jamie:                  Pat, tell me a little bit about how you got into being a nurse entrepreneur initially and then taking that nursing education focus that we have and offering some assistance and putting together this opportunity to help other nurses. Patricia:                Thanks. You know, it’s kind of interesting you talked about nursing skills. I think that it comes naturally to us to initiate that nursing process. I think that’s part of the talent that we have, that we bring with us and bring into nursing. I think it is part of us before we are educated as a nurse. As far as my experience, I was an emergency nurse and I did know how to toot our horn. Emergency nurses, we usually get right out there. Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 31:40 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/08/nurse-entrepreneur-story/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/08/nurse-entrepreneur-story/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:29:49 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=131 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/08/nurse-entrepreneur-story/feed/ 0 In this month’s episode, Nursing Notes Lives looks at nurse entrepreneurs. This month’s featured Get-To-Know nurse, Sharon Rogone, uses her experience as a NICU nurse to create specialty products to improve care for these tiny patients with her busines... In this month’s episode, Nursing Notes Lives looks at nurse entrepreneurs. This month’s featured Get-To-Know nurse, Sharon Rogone, uses her experience as a NICU nurse to create specialty products to improve care for these tiny patients with her business “Small Beginnings.” I asked her how she decided to become a nurse and what led her to branch out on her own with a new patient care innovation. Sharon:                 When I was a kid I was a candy striper. I was always fascinated by medicine and science. I looked at nursing as a way of helping people. The candy striper, you do all the dirty jobs. That you watch all the people do all the great things that they do for people and that’s where I wanted to go. Jamie:                  Where did you go to school and how did that progressed? Did you start off in an RN program or did you go right into a BSN program? I know this was a few years ago. Sharon:                 Well, I got married young. I started back to school actually when I was in my late thirties. I became an LVN first. Then I went into a RN program. I got my Associate degree and I do not have a BSN. I found neonatal nursing when I was in LVN and I worked in the unit as an LVN and was taking on greater responsibilities because I was good and passionate about what I did in there. That’s when I decided to go back to school and get my RN. Like I said, I was very passionate about “Do no harm” that’s an oath that we take as nurses. Nurses are out there without the tools to do no harm and that bothered me greatly. That’s why I started doing things to make the job better for the baby, better for the nurses and cost-effective. If you don’t make them cost-effective, then you’re not going to do any good. If they’re too labor-intensive to make, your products aren’t going to get on the market because the units are not going to buy them. Jamie:                  We see a lot of nurses out there and people listening to the show are going to be nodding their heads, I know, when they think about this. But we’re constantly innovating, making do with the tools that we have to adapt them to a new task or job that they weren’t originally intended to be used for simply because we have a need to fill. Many times you sit there and you scratch your head and go, “Wow! I wish there was a better way to do this,” and you did that. I looked at your first product you ever came up with called the “Bili-Bonnet Phototherapy Mask.” A lot of people may know what the phototherapy mask is but why don’t you tell us a little bit about what your thought-process was when you first came up with this idea and what exactly it does - the advantages it brings over what was there before? Sharon:                 Okay. When I was in the unit, it was a long time ago, there were very few products for the babies. We used to cut black construction paper in a shape of a mask and put cotton balls or eye pads behind it and use stockinettes from the ortho unit to make little hats to hold it in place. Gradually, the bigger companies started coming out with products that were not easy for the nurse to use, didn’t stay in place well. I came up with this idea of using the burn net and making it into a bonnet. I was making them by hand for myself. Other nurses started seeing, “Could you make me one of those?” It just kind of grew from there, just kind of snowballed. I just had one product that started my business with about $3,000.00 and it just kind of snowballed. It’s so like I was on a fast-moving train because I had other ideas in my head but it takes a while to get them to the market place if you have no backing. As a blond with a little squeaky voice, nobody took me seriously for a long time. It’s been a long and slow process. But, like I said, I had a passion for making things better for the baby. I was looking at the outcomes for the babies. We see these kids with their arms spread wide and their legs spread wide learning to walk and talk. Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 24:00 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/06/urban-zen-integrative-therapy-scholarship-nurses-on-nursing-notes-live/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/06/urban-zen-integrative-therapy-scholarship-nurses-on-nursing-notes-live/#comments Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:25:49 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=127 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/06/urban-zen-integrative-therapy-scholarship-nurses-on-nursing-notes-live/feed/ 0 The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - ... Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 31:33 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/06/hospice-and-palliative-care-nursing-on-nursing-notes-live/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/06/hospice-and-palliative-care-nursing-on-nursing-notes-live/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:06:23 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=122 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/06/hospice-and-palliative-care-nursing-on-nursing-notes-live/feed/ 0 The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue will be accompanied by a couple of episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content and provide you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or NursingNotesLive.com; or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast! Also check out the Campaign’s latest initiative, “Thank A Nurse,” which includes a new mobile app game, called Happy Nurse, available in the App Store and online at www.discovernursing.com and The Art of Nursing: A Portrait of Thanks Mosaic Project that invites nurses from around the world to submit photos online to be part of a historical image. Submit your photo at www.campaignfornursing.com. In this month’s episode, Nursing Notes Live will be discussing Holistic Care and the unwavering compassion and commitment by nurses in the field of Hospice and Palliative Care nursing. I got the chance to talk with this month’s featured get-to-know nurse, Pamela Johnson. Pamela is a certified Hospice and Palliative Care nurse and Director of Clinical Services at Odyssey Hospice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I asked her about what drew her to a nursing career focusing on end-of-life care. Pamela:    Basically, I have decided, I think, in Junior High School, to volunteer at a community hospital that wasn’t far from my home. I did that once or twice a week. I went all over the hospital. I was in a pharmacy. Then I got to go up in the nursing unit and watch the care that nurses be giving help in little ways but not that much but I really enjoyed watching the interactions between patients and the nurses and thought, “I can do this.” I thought I can go and make a difference. That experience shaped my drive, I guess, to be a nurse. My parents really wanted me to go to college and I was “No. I wanted to go to nursing school. I wanted to go out there and do it as soon as possible.” I did go to nursing school and did that two-and-a-half-year program. I graduated and went right to a Med-Surg unit. I did that for about six months. Then I went to the Emergency Room. I was really kind of driven to do all that high-tech stuff in the emergency room. I did helicopter service for a little bit. I worked in a trauma unit for some time too. Then I ended up in critical care. I watched the way patients die without their families and with little support and nobody really talked about what exactly what’s going on with that patient or the family. I just didn’t think that was the right way for things to happen. As it turned out, I was a newly-married and my husband had a heart attack. He ended up giving me all the young patients that had MIs, those were young guys, and talking to their wives about how to deal with somebody young that’s having a heart attack. Some of those patients would die. I was just having a hard time with it and decided that I think that it was time for me to go into something different, so I started to do home care. Hospice was first talked about and I got to go along with the nurse who was seeing a hospice patient. I thought, “This is it. This is really what I am supposed to do.” Jamie:    It’s funny how you fall into it. You were involved in such a broad range of nursing care, really looking for that niche that fits you. You get to that one thing. It’s amazing how it clicks. Pamela:    It did. It did for me. Jamie:    What’s one of the things you find most gratifying? I think a lot of people look at hospice care and all they can see is death and dying. Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 33:54 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/05/crna-anesthesia-nursing-panel-discussion/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/05/crna-anesthesia-nursing-panel-discussion/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 13:13:30 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=112 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/05/crna-anesthesia-nursing-panel-discussion/feed/ 0 In this month’s episodes, Nursing Notes Live will look into the nursing specialty of the nurse anesthetist. I got the chance to chat with several of these advanced practice nurse specialists in our panel segment this month. In this month’s episodes, Nursing Notes Live will look into the nursing specialty of the nurse anesthetist. I got the chance to chat with several of these advanced practice nurse specialists in our panel segment this month. Joining me are former American Association of Nurse Anesthetists President Terry Wicks, Nickie Damico, assistant professor and director of professional practice at the Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Nurse Anesthesia in Richmond, Virginia, and Timothy Holt Smith, a CRNA at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue will be accompanied by a couple of episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content and provide you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter.   You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or NursingNotesLive.com; or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast! With your host Jamie Davis, RN, NREMTP, the Podmedic. Transcript of the Discussion: Jamie: Terry, this is the oldest nursing specialty. How did nurse anesthetist become a specialty when there weren’t other nursing specialties per se at the time? Terry: Early in the 20th century, most of the anesthesia was administered by interns and junior surgery residents who really were more interested in becoming surgeons. They were in the operating room simultaneously watching the surgery and administering the anesthesia. Not surprisingly, knowing what we do about anesthesia agents at the time, a lot of patients didn’t do so well. So some enterprising surgeons decided to have dedicated nursing staff, learned to administer anesthesia, particularly at the Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis. That really was the birth of the profession as a specialty for nurses. For a long, long, long time, nurse anesthetists were the only healthcare specialty, if you will, that administered an anesthesia and then anesthesiologists sort of came along after that, years after that, and our two professions grew along parallel paths. As recently as the middle of 1970’s there were probably equal numbers of nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists in the country. The numbers are not significantly different today but there are a few more anesthesiologists than CRNAs. Jamie: That’s amazing to hear that story. Really, nurses set the standard of care for the specialty and were there doing it actively as specialists before doctors were. I wasn’t aware of that. That’s pretty fascinating. Terry: You’re not going to have doctors tell you that. Jamie: Well, of course, we won’t. But we all know what really goes on, right? Terry: Yes. Jamie: Tim, were you going to say something? Timothy: I was going to say, Terry was talking about the Mayo Clinic. Alice Magaw who was sort of – she was a nurse and she was friends with, I think, Charles Mayo’s wife who was also a nurse. She really started the ball rolling. She saw that the mortality was pretty high at that time. She started talking to patients. Since she was doing it on a consistent basis, she learned to really taper down from the amount of anesthetic that was being given because nobody was keeping records at the time. To make a long story short, she wrote five academic articles. The last one was about her experience of 14,000 anesthetics without a catastrophe occurring. People came from all over the place to the Mayo Clinic to see how this team worked. I think it’s pretty fascinating that she talked. She was a nurse. She spoke with patients. She made suggestions. She told them about what was going to happen. She was pretty much the art of nursing and the art of what we do in providing anesthesia. Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 34:05 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/05/interview-with-nurse-anesthetist-don-wood/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/05/interview-with-nurse-anesthetist-don-wood/#comments Sun, 15 May 2011 12:56:59 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=104 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/05/interview-with-nurse-anesthetist-don-wood/feed/ 2 In this month’s episodes, Nursing Notes Live will look into the nursing specialty of the nurse anesthetist. I got the chance to talk with this month’s Featured “Get to Know Nurse” Don Wood. Don’s a certified registered nurse anesthetist at South Bro... In this month’s episodes, Nursing Notes Live will look into the nursing specialty of the nurse anesthetist. I got the chance to talk with this month’s Featured “Get to Know Nurse” Don Wood. Don’s a certified registered nurse anesthetist at South Bro... Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 22:15 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/04/perinatal-nurse-panel-a-continuum-of-nursing-care/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/04/perinatal-nurse-panel-a-continuum-of-nursing-care/#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:41:30 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=91 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/04/perinatal-nurse-panel-a-continuum-of-nursing-care/feed/ 0 Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each mo... Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 27:50 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/04/perinatal-get-to-know-nurse-cyndy-krening/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/04/perinatal-get-to-know-nurse-cyndy-krening/#comments Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:40:24 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=84 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/04/perinatal-get-to-know-nurse-cyndy-krening/feed/ 0 Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. 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Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 23:20 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/03/panel-discussion-on-clinical-nurse-specialists-and-other-advanced-nurses/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/03/panel-discussion-on-clinical-nurse-specialists-and-other-advanced-nurses/#comments Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:23:43 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=72 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/03/panel-discussion-on-clinical-nurse-specialists-and-other-advanced-nurses/feed/ 0 advanced practice nursing,Clinical nurse specialist,education,nurse practitioner,nursing Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue will be accompanied by a couple of episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content and provide you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter.   You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or NursingNotesLive.com; or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast. I’m your host, Jamie Davis. This month's Nursing Notes newsletter delves in to the world of the clinical nurse specialist. In this episode we brought together a panel of clinical nurse specialists from around the country to talk about this advanced practice nursing path. Joining us today are Martha Gurzick, Clinical Nurse Specialist in Pediatrics at Frederick Memorial Hospital in Maryland, Ann Mayo, Professor at the University of San Diego Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science, and Peggy Wellman a Nurse Manager at CDH Proton Center in Illinois. Interviews with Martha Gurzick, Ann Mayo and Peggy Wellmann Jamie Davis: I’m excited to have the two of you here to talk about clinical nurse specialists and advanced practice nursing in general and I know a little bit of our discussion earlier. Ann, you brought up that clinical nurse specialists and nurse practitioners are seen as peers as advanced practice nurses. Would you like to talk a little bit about what the similarities or differences are between what you will consider a nurse practitioner and a clinical nurse specialist? Ann Mayo: Well, sure. I’d also like to add to that list that certified registered nurse anesthetists as well as nurse midwives are also advanced practice nurses. In the United States we have actually four categories of advanced practice nurses. States will regulate the practice of advanced practice nurses. In some states advanced practice nurses obtain licenses to practice. In other states, they’re certified. There are a few states that don’t regulate the practice of some of their advanced practice nurses and that does apply to some CNS in a few states across the United States. But in terms of practice, generally, across the US there are actually four categories. I think the CNS and NP are probably paired together most frequently because we – in both groups have the opportunity to provide care and give access to care to diverse population of patients anywhere from newborns all the way up to geriatric - very frail, elderly older persons. Because of that, I think the CNS and NP can sometimes be confused with each other. The NP provides direct patient care. To contrast that to the CNS, the CNS not only provides direct patient care but they also consult with other nurses who might need their expertise and they work in systems whether it’s clinical systems or hospital systems on very large evidence-based practice projects to roll those out, to improve the quality of care. As a result the NP, because they see patients and provide direct patient care, can see a broader spectrum of patients. So, for example, they could be in a primary care clinic. They could see newborns all the way to older adults all the daylong in their practice. For instance, the clinical nurse specialist, the key word here is “specialist.” Because the clinical nurse specialist has these other spheres both patient, nursing, and systems sphere that they operate in – they have a more narrow specialty. You may find CNS who specialized in geriatric nursing, who specialize in cardiovascular nursing, who specialize in pulmonary nursing. Like Martha, Martha specializes in pediatric nursing. Jamie: Martha, how does being a clinical nurse specialist in your facility help you provide a unique type of care for your patients? Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 37:00 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/03/interview-with-susan-bruce-clinical-nurse-specialist-in-oncology/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/03/interview-with-susan-bruce-clinical-nurse-specialist-in-oncology/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:20:24 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=73 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/03/interview-with-susan-bruce-clinical-nurse-specialist-in-oncology/feed/ 0 Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue will be accompanied by a couple of episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content and provide you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. You can listen to previous podcasts on the Nursing Notes by Johnson & Johnson Facebook page or NursingNotesLive.com; or visit iTunes to subscribe to the podcast! I’m your host, Jamie Davis. This month's Nursing Notes newsletter delves into the world of the clinical nurse specialist. Recently, we got the chance to talk with Featured “Get to Know Nurse” Susan Bruce, a clinical nurse specialist in oncology at Duke Raleigh Cancer Center in North Carolina. I asked Susan about her career as a nurse and what inspired her to continue to advance her practice level as a Clinical Nurse Specialist. ------------ Jamie Davis:           Susan, welcome to Nursing Notes Live. Susan Bruce:         Thank you, Jamie. I’m happy to be here. Jamie:                  Susan, one of the things I like to always ask is what led you to become a nurse and enter this career, this calling which I think any of us nurses really believe it is a calling, to be part of this healing team that brings people such comfort and nurses certainly are very good at doing that. Tell us a little bit about how you became a nurse, how you made that decision. Susan:                  Yes. Once upon a time – now, seriously though, my grandmother was nurse. I think I never had any questions about what I wanted to be. I don’t recall ever wanting to be anything else but a nurse. I think I was very much taken in with some of her stories about what it was to be a nurse. Back in those days, because I’ve been a nurse now for 33 years, so back in those days they prepared the meals, they scrubbed the floors, they did the nursing care and all of that. There was just like something very touching about the way she would tell stories about being a nurse. Her background was mother-baby. She worked nights and spent a lot of times with the new mothers after they had delivered babies so I think a lot of teaching occurred. Then I thought, “That really sounds like what I wanted to do.” I get to meet people at a happy time in their life - or she did anyway – I would have that opportunity as well. I think that’s what initially got me drawn into nursing. Also of note, her sister was a nurse. I don’t know that much background, what kind of nursing she did, but just the thought that a couple of members in my family were nurses, I think, just kind of guided me in that direction. How I got to where I am today in oncology: I started out in a Children’s Hospital after I graduated from school and worked on a teenage Psych unit and Medicine unit. I think I took care of my very first oncology patient there. She was a 16-year-old leukemia patient. I just really got involved with her care and the fact that she was in and out and the ability to get to know her better. I really liked that more than just hands-on a patient that maybe came in to surgery, have their surgery, and went home. You really didn’t get to know the people that well. After that, I did a brief period of medical-surgical nursing and have the opportunity to relocate to Boston and decided to pursue my career in oncology nursing. I’ve been doing that now for 30 years and can’t think of anything else that I would rather do. There is something about being able to reach out and touch the lives of people and their families when they are at a very vulnerable time in their life and certainly people diagnosed with cancer they are in a very vulnerable state of time. Just getting to know them being there and being their guide through this journey is how I like to think of it. Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 26:47 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/02/discussing-the-future-of-emergency-nursing/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/02/discussing-the-future-of-emergency-nursing/#comments Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:56:20 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=64 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/02/discussing-the-future-of-emergency-nursing/feed/ 0 emergency,ena,er nurse,future of nursing,hospital,nursing,trauma nurses society,trauma nursing The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - ... Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 29:42 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/02/trauma-and-emergency-nursing-compared/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/02/trauma-and-emergency-nursing-compared/#comments Mon, 21 Feb 2011 02:48:07 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=61 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/02/trauma-and-emergency-nursing-compared/feed/ 0 emergency,ena,er,golden hour,nurse,nursing,rn,trauma,trauma nurses society The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. - Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - ... Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 28:56 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/01/inside-oncology-nursing-panel-discussion/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/01/inside-oncology-nursing-panel-discussion/#comments Fri, 28 Jan 2011 19:10:59 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=52 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/01/inside-oncology-nursing-panel-discussion/feed/ 0 cancer,carlton brown,hematology,infusion,jackie grandt,nurse,nursing,oncology,panel Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” - Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive. Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive.com. Subscribe to the show via iTunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nursing-notes-live/id408728865 *** This month's issue of Nursing Notes looks at the field of oncology nursing. In this show, we gathered a group of Oncology Nurses to share what they think it means to be an “Oncology Nurse.” Our guests include Carlton Brown, the President of the Oncology Nursing Society, and Jacquelyn Grandt, Program Director, Outpatient Oncology Services at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center in California. Oncology Nurse Panel Discussion Jamie:                  One of the things I’d like to just touch on first off is the treatment of cancer patients seems to have changed so dramatically over the last twenty years. You must have seen a whole lot of change where we’ve moved from inpatient treatments and lots of surgeries to more targeted treatments and outpatient treatment programs. Tell me a little bit about some of the changes that have occurred that really you’ve noticed most over the last twenty years. Jackie Grandt:       Yes. I can answer that. Actually, I’ve been in oncology nursing for about 30 years. My beginning in oncology nursing was inpatient. At that time we had mostly inpatient patients that we managed. There wasn’t really the outpatient arena that exists today. Over the course of my career, I got into outpatient practice and spent a good portion of my time in private practices and, in doing that, really saw the transition of patients from inpatient care to outpatient care and providing them with chemotherapy treatments which was the primary area that I was in and outpatient office. Initially when I started, all treatments we did in the hospital. It was like patients had to be monitored and followed extensively. Now, we’re giving them these treatments and then sending them home and monitoring them from an outpatient status. That was a significant change. Also the types of treatments have changed. We have now targeted therapies. We also now do combination therapies with chemo and radiation together or do neo-adjuvant treatments which when I first started those kinds of things didn’t exist. Carlton Brown:      Yes. I agree. I recently heard somebody say that, “Yes, you are an inpatient. If you are a patient in an inpatient arena now, you are really the sickest of the sick.” The future of the next three or four years of inpatient care will really become mini-ICUs or intensive care units because the inpatient facilities will be mostly held for those patients that are very ill. I agree that we’ve seen a lot of our treatments – even within the last three years of seeing how – even the care now is moving from the outpatient arena really to the home so it’s not uncommon for patients to be treated in their own homes for cancer and certainly a move more towards the oral chemotherapies or oral medications that certainly have their own special side-effects. I agree with Jackie that we’ve really seen quite a change over the last 30 years and even the last 5 years. Jamie:                  I saw on one of the pieces you commented on for the Nursing Notes newsletter that’s coming out this month that you talked about some of the challenges and rewards for oncology nurses based on breakthroughs and cancer treatments. Could you talk a little bit about how those breakthroughs are affecting the oncology nurses here in the United States? Carlton:                Well, the breakthroughs – I think I was talking about the move towards more oral chemotherapy or oral agents. There are probably 50 to 100 chemotherapies out there that each come with their own very individual special symptoms. We always think nausea or alopecia but not all of those cause that. Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 29:06 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/01/get-know-oncology-nurse-jacquelyn-grandt/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/01/get-know-oncology-nurse-jacquelyn-grandt/#comments Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:02:59 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=44 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2011/01/get-know-oncology-nurse-jacquelyn-grandt/feed/ 5 cancer,jackie grandt,long beach memorial medical center,nurse,oncology,oncology nursing society Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” - Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive. 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Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 20:06 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/12/second-career-nurse-theresa-brown-author-nurse-former-english-professor/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/12/second-career-nurse-theresa-brown-author-nurse-former-english-professor/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:20:22 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=25 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/12/second-career-nurse-theresa-brown-author-nurse-former-english-professor/feed/ 0 Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” - Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive. Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive.com. Subscribe to the show via iTunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nursing-notes-live/id408728865 *** Many people are exploring becoming a nurse as a second career option mid-life. In this episode of Nursing Notes Live, host Jamie Davis interviews our December 2010 "Get to Know Nurse" Theresa Brown. A former college English Professor, Theresa Brown, RN, lives and works in the Pittsburgh area. She received her BSN from the University of Pittsburgh, and during what she calls her past life, a PhD in English from the University of Chicago. Brown is a regular contributor to the New York Times blog “Well.” Her essay “Perhaps Death is Proud; More Reason to Savor Life” is included in Best American Science Writing 2009 and Best American Medical Writing 2009. Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between (HarperStudio, 2010) is her first book. --- Don't forget to check out the entire December issue of Nursing Notes, featuring a look at second bachelor’s degree programs in nursing around the country, information on nursing school scholarships, and continued increases in nursing school enrollment.  You can read the entire issue online at www.discovernursing.com and don’t forget to catch our other Nursing Notes Live episode this month where we brought together a group of nurses and nurse educators to discuss the advantages and unique challenges faced by those who decide to pursue nursing as a second career.  You’ll find this and our other podcast episodes at www.NursingNotesLive.com or in the podcast area in iTunes. --- Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue will be accompanied by a couple of episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content and provide you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. Check out NursingNotesLive.com or visit iTunes to subscribe to all episodes of this podcast! Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 21:56 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/12/second-career-nurses-a-panel-discussion-for-nursing-notes-live/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/12/second-career-nurses-a-panel-discussion-for-nursing-notes-live/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:03:24 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=19 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/12/second-career-nurses-a-panel-discussion-for-nursing-notes-live/feed/ 0 Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” - Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive. Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive.com. Subscribe to the show via iTunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nursing-notes-live/id408728865 *** In this episode of Nursing Notes Live, the panel discussion revolves around those who choose nursing as a second career. What do these nurses bring to the profession and do they face unique challenges entering the rigorous training as a nurse at a mid-point in their lives. Our Nursing Notes Live Panel Suzette Cardin: Suzette holds a doctorate in Nursing Science and is the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at the UCLA School of Nursing. Christy Dryer: Christy Dryer, MSN, RN, CNE has a background in medical/surgical nursing with time also spent in pediatrics and staff education. She is currently the Director of Nursing and Health Professions at Cecil College and enrolled in the Doctorate of Nursing Practice program at the University of Maryland. Jack Jordanowski: Jack is currently working on the telemetry floor of Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Rahway and loving it. Charge Nurse. Ex United States Air Force Officer. Graduated from Rutger's University School of Nursing at 47. Rick Russotti: Rick is the host/author of Mitigation Journal podcast/blog. He retired from the Ridge Road Fire District as a battalion chief after 21 years of service and continues to work as a paramedic and EMS educator while pursuing nursing at Monroe Community College. Rick lives in Greece, NY with his wife and five children. Don't forget to check out the entire December issue of Nursing Notes, featuring a look at second bachelor’s degree programs in nursing around the country, information on nursing school scholarships, and continued increases in nursing school enrollment.  You can read the entire issue online at www.discovernursing.com and don’t forget to catch our other Nursing Notes Live episode this month where we interviewed second career nurse Theresa Brown about her transition from college English Professor to a career in nursing. You’ll find this and our other podcast episodes at www.NursingNotesLive.com or in the podcast area in iTunes. --- Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue will be accompanied by a couple of episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content and provide you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. Check out NursingNotesLive.com or visit iTunes to subscribe to all episodes of this podcast! Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 35:32 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/12/interview-with-pediatric-nurse-kelli-anderson-from-childrens-hospital-l-a/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/12/interview-with-pediatric-nurse-kelli-anderson-from-childrens-hospital-l-a/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:24:34 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=15 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/12/interview-with-pediatric-nurse-kelli-anderson-from-childrens-hospital-l-a/feed/ 2 children's hospital los angeles,get to know nurse,kelli anderson,nurse,nursing,pediatric,podcast Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” - Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive. Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive.com. Subscribe to the show via iTunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nursing-notes-live/id408728865 *** Transcript of interview of pediatric nurse Kelli Anderson Jamie: Kelli, welcome to Nursing Notes Live. Kelli: Oh, thank you. Thank you for having me today. Jamie: I wanted to ask you a little bit - to get started, how you got into nursing? What made you choose that as a career path and what educational process did you use to get your RN? Kelli: Well, I was one of the youngest in my nursing program. Actually, I was 22, the youngest of my graduating class. The average age was in the thirties. It was very challenging. I went right from high school into a four-year nursing program at University of Colorado. I really value that education. I went up the ladder pretty quickly in nursing. I was a manager at the age of 26, if you can believe that. I felt like my Nursing Bachelor’s degree really promoted me to be prepared straight out of nursing school because it makes you think outside the box. It was very interesting when I got into management interviewing other people from different programs. I really value the four-year degree. It really helps you have more diversity in nursing. I chose pediatrics because of my nursing experience when I was in nursing school. I just have a love for children. I’m very, very passionate about that. I did start straight into adults because that’s always was encouraged at that time to have experience. I have to say, walking away, I’m glad I did because it gave me some really strong basic nursing straight out of the gate. It helped me prepare to be a pediatric nurse because it is very specialized and very challenging emotionally and physically to be a pediatric nurse. I’ve been here at Children’s Hospital for 20 years and I still love it as much as the first day I came here. Jamie: You said that choosing pediatric nursing you made that decision while you were in nursing school. I’ve heard that from so many other nurses that it just seemed to be one of their clinical rotations clicked with them. When you made that decision, was it in a particular rotation or how did you decide that: “This is what I want to do”? Kelli: It was that specific clinical rotation. It was my experience—it was funny—it was in Denver. The nurses didn’t even wear uniforms. They wear street clothes because they felt like it was ecologically better for the patients there. The patients varied from complexity and acuity. It’s just challenging every day. You may have a child the same age but it’s very different developmentally or what they’re going through so it’s never the same. Every day is a different day. It keeps you on your toes. I always ask nursing students that I work with today, “Why did you like it? Really pay attention to your clinical experience. Even if it isn’t what you saw that would be it. If you’re really passionate about the patients you’re taking care of, being in a different venue, a different area, so follow your heart and follow your dreams because you really needed to what you love and feel.” Jamie: I’m glad you said that because I’d give the same advice to nursing students. When I speak to them it’s just, “Make sure you get the most out of each rotation. You may be surprised the ones that you like and the ones that maybe are more challenging. It’s not always intuitive as how that works out.” Kelli: And that’s the beauty of nursing because if you are tired of it or you want to try something else, there’s just so many avenues that you can change, go to try and move on and move up the ladder. You could become an instructor. It’s an endless choice, but you still have to have the bottom basics of why you became a nurse. Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 20:47 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/11/pediatric-nurse-panel-discussion-on-nursing-notes-live/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/11/pediatric-nurse-panel-discussion-on-nursing-notes-live/#comments Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:21:50 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=12 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/11/pediatric-nurse-panel-discussion-on-nursing-notes-live/feed/ 0 children's hospital los angeles,joetta wallace,kelli anderson,ladonna northington,miller children's hospital,nurse,nursing,pediatric,university of missippi Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” - Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive. 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Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 29:47 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/10/interview-with-kim-mcallister-author-of-the-emergiblog/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/10/interview-with-kim-mcallister-author-of-the-emergiblog/#comments Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:18:55 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=9 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/10/interview-with-kim-mcallister-author-of-the-emergiblog/feed/ 0 blogger,emergiblog,get to know nurse,kim mcallister,nursing,podcast,social media Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” - Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive. Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive.com. Subscribe to the show via iTunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nursing-notes-live/id408728865 *** Interview with Kim McAllister, Author of the Emergiblog The latest nursing news and information brought to you by the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's Future - This is Nursing Notes Live. Nursing Notes and Nursing Notes Live: Nursing Notes Live is an audio extension of the national award-winning monthly e-newsletter, Nursing Notes - which offers the latest industry news, trends and updates in nursing. You can subscribe to the e-newsletter at www.discovernursing.com. Each month's Nursing Notes issue will be accompanied by a couple of episodes of Nursing Notes Live, which will expand on the content and provide you greater insights into the topics presented in the e-newsletter. Check out NursingNotesLive.com to subscribe to all episodes of this podcast! This month's issue of Nursing Notes is the Digital Issue, with a focus on helpful social media tools and applications that nurses, nursing students and nurse educators can utilize to continue their professional development.  The Campaign recently traveled to the BlogWorld & New Media Expo Conference  in Las Vegas and met up with key nurse bloggers, like Kim McAllister of Emergiblog, Cora Vizcarra of Infusion Nurse and Lorry Schoenly of Correctional Nurse. Today, on Nursing Notes Live, we'll be talking to Kim McAllister of Emergiblog about her experience as an emergency department nurse and blogger. Kim was featured in the October issue of Nursing Notes as our Get to Know Nurse. Kim is an ER nurse in northern California, author of one of the most popular nursing blogs at emergiblog.com and one of the regular hosts of the “Insights in Nursing Podcast” that you can find at insightsinnursing.com. Let’s jump on over that interview with Kim recorded earlier this month prior to our trip to BlogWorld and the New Media Expo. *** Jamie:    I’m here speaking with Kim McAllister, author of the Emergiblog and we’re going to find out a little bit from Kim about how she became a nurse and what interested her to become a nurse blogger. Hi, Kim, great to have you on the show. Kim McAllister:    Hi, Jamie, thanks. Good to be here. Jamie:    Let’s start off with how Kim became a nurse. What brought you into the nursing field? Kim:    Cherry Ames brought me in to the nursing field. I was nine years old. It was my ninth birthday actually. My great grandmother had bought me “Cherry Ames Student Nurse” and “Cherry Ames Senior Nurse.” I was sitting on her front porch and I got maybe four or five chapters into the first book and decided, “This is what I’m going to be.” It wasn’t so much because I fell in love with nursing but I fell in love with the nursing uniform and the cap. Decided at nine that it was worth going to nursing school just to be able to wear that cap and ten years later, I was actually in nursing school and never deviated from wanting to do it. Obviously I learned more about the profession as I got older and it was about more than just wearing Cherry’s cap. Never deviated and started school when I was 18, graduated when I was 20 from Associate degree program. Basically, I’m almost nursing my whole life. Jamie:    Wow, that’s a new one. I’ve heard lots of different ways people became nurses but never from the Cherry Ames’ books. That’s interesting. Kim:    Yes. It was pretty funny when I tell people. It wasn’t like, “Well, I respected the nursing profession,” which I do, but I was nine years old. It was like a light went on and it was like, “This is what I’m meant to do,” and I did it. I can credit my great-grandmother for my career. Jamie:    What areas of nursing? Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 22:10 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/10/social-media-and-nursing-care-on-nursing-notes-live/ http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/10/social-media-and-nursing-care-on-nursing-notes-live/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:17:49 +0000 admin http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/?p=4 http://mediccast.com/nursingnotes/2010/10/social-media-and-nursing-care-on-nursing-notes-live/feed/ 0 blogworld,christina mcmenemy,cora vizcarra,epatient dave,kerri sparling,lorry schoenly,nursing,social media Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” - Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive. Info for nurses from people you trust, this is “Nursing Notes Live.” Visit http://www.DiscoverNursing.com for the monthly eNewsletter, Nursing Notes and for other episodes of this podcast the Nursing Notes Facebook page, visit http://NursingNotesLive.com. Subscribe to the show via iTunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nursing-notes-live/id408728865 *** Hello and welcome to this week’s episode of “Nursing Notes Live.” I’m your host, Jamie Davis. I’m an R.N., a health educator, here on behalf of Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future. Each month, the Nursing Notes newsletter is going to be accompanied by a couple of episodes of this program to provide you additional insights and access to some audio files that relate some of the content for the monthly newsletter. You can find out more over at nursingnoteslive.com including links to subscribe to this podcast and the Nursing Notes newsletter. So please head over and check out nursingnoteslive.com. This month’s episode, like the Nursing Notes newsletter, they’re devoted to looking at social media applications for the month of October 2010 and the uses of nurses, nursing students, educators in using those social media tools to provide better patient care, to provide sources of education and information to provide better outcomes for our patients. Earlier in October, a group of active social media nurse bloggers, podcasters, met up with other social media healthcare social media sectors to talk about the future of healthcare and how social media and web content can be used to improve outcomes for our patients. Now, the special Social Health track at the BlogWorld in New Media Expo at Las Vegas was sponsored by Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future and included several exciting sessions and discussions about everything from patient bloggers to integrating voices from the healthcare industry sectors with patients and healthcare professionals as one unified voice in the social media environment. *** Now among the most inspiring stories was the story of e-Patient Dave. Dave is a cancer survivor. He credits his involvement with social media, with online patient forums, and blogs to have a huge contribution into his survival from kidney cancer to this day. I got the chance to chat with e-Patient Dave right after his keynote speech and I got a little bit from him on his ideas about the importance of social media awareness for nurses. Jamie Davis: Hi, this is Jamie Davis at BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas 2010. I’m interviewing e-Patient Dave here very briefly. Dave, you talked a lot about patient blogging and patient advocacy, what would you say to nurses as they educate patients about their healthcare problems encouraging them to become more involved in the internet aspect of information about their conditions because so often in healthcare we are told to not pay attention or not encourage our patients to go on the web for information? Dave: This is just the latest version of an on-going – the important skill which is patient education. Whatever the field maybe—sex or smoking or disease management or whatever—health professionals are in a great and trusted position. The Pew Internet Project research shows that the public prefers and trusts the most information that comes from health professionals. They’re in a great position to give guidance. Like when my primary says, “Here’s a good website on this subject.” That’s really valuable to me. Now the thing is, everybody knows that there’s garbage on the internet and yet it’s also a vast resource. The skill, the teachable skill, is how to find good websites and point out ones that are relevant for a particular condition. Jamie: Great, Dave. Well, thanks for sharing some of your thoughts about social media and nursing. Dave: It’s a pleasure. From my own cancer case, I just had the most fabulous memories of good nurses really taking care of me. Jamie Davis, the Podmedic, RN, NREMT-P, B.A., A.A.S clean 20:14