Once a Nurse, Always a Nurse

Critical Thinking: NO Time for It!

leanne@onceanurse.com (Damion Keith Jenkins, Leanne Meier, BSN, RN) — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Damion Keith Jenkins is a Registered Nurse, NCLEX Prep Expert, Educational Consultant, Public Speaker and Podcaster. He has a passion for helping nurses and clinicians to advance their critical thinking skills with high-quality nursing education! Damion is the owner and lead educational specialist at The Nurse Speak; each day he helps leaders develop strategies for nursing success! From launching his own online NCLEX Strategies for Success Program, to developing transformative education and programs for a variety of healthcare related businesses and organizations, Damion is committed to excellence in helping his clients energize, strategize and mobilize - so they can reach their academic and professional goals.

To contact Damion: linkedin.com/in/damionjenkins; Website: thenursespeak.com (Company); Email: damion.jenkins@thenursespeak.com

Everyday Courage for Extraordinary Times

leanne@onceanurse.com (Leanne Meier, Joe Tye, Devin Carr) — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:04:04 +0000

About Joe Tye:

Founder and Head Coach, Values Coach Inc., Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Author of The Florence Prescription and (with Bob Dent) Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare 319.624.388 www.ValuesCoach.com. Joe consults with hospitals on what he calls “the Invisible Architecture” of core values, organizational culture, and workplace attitude. He is a frequent speaker and author or coauthor of a dozen books including The Florence Prescription and (with Dr. Bob Dent) the 2-time AJN Book of the Year Award winning Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare. www.ValuesCoach.com

About Devin Carr:

Dr. Devin Carr is Chief Nursing Officer at Maine Medical Center and leads the medical center’s three-time Magnet-Recognized nursing team. He joined MMC in 2020, coming from the University of Michigan Medical Center (U of M) in Ann Arbor, a Magnet-designated hospital, where he served as the Chief Nursing Officer for one of the nation’s leading medical centers. Prior to U of M, Devin served as Administrative Director of the Surgery and Transplant Patient Care Center at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN. He has 30+ years of experience in healthcare, including clinical, academic, and leadership roles. Devin has an extensive background in nursing education including program development and evaluation. He earned a DNP from Concordia University WI, an MSN from Clarkson College, and a BSN from Middle TN State University. Additionally, he holds advanced practice certification as an adult health clinical nurse specialist (ACNS-BC); advanced certification as a nurse executive (NEA-BC); and is a certified professional in-patient safety (CPPS).

https://www.linkedin.com/in/devin-carr-dnp-rn-rrt-acns-bc-nea-bc-b203aa6/

Twitter: @DevinCarrRN

The Calling: Cultures of Replenishment

leanne@onceanurse.com (Quint Studer, Joe Tye) — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 13:04:12 +0000

Quint Studer is author of 10 books including Wall Street Journal bestseller The Busy Leader’s Handbook: How to Lead People and Places That Thrive and his current new book, The Calling: Why Healthcare is So Special, which we discuss in this episode. He is founder of Pensacola’s Studer Community Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on improving the community’s quality of life. Quint speaks and works with companies across the country helping them build and sustain high-performing organizations. He is a businessman, a visionary, an entrepreneur, and a mentor to many. He has been recognized by Florida Trend for the past three years as a ”living legend” and an influential business leader in the state. He currently serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of West Florida, Executive-in-Residence at George Washington University, and Lecturer at Cornell University. For more information, call: 850-232-4648 please visit: www.quintstuder.com

Joe Tye, Founder and Head Coach, Values Coach Inc., Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Iowa College of Public Health, Author of The Florence Prescription and (with Bob Dent) Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare 319.624.388 www.ValuesCoach.com Joe consults with hospitals on what he calls “the Invisible Architecture” of core values, organizational culture, and workplace attitude. He is a frequent speaker and author or coauthor of a dozen books including The Florence Prescription and (with Dr. Bob Dent) the 2-time AJN Book of the Year Award winning Building a Culture of Ownership in Healthcare. Joe will return in November 2021 to Once a Nurse, Always a Nurse to share his 13 strategies for effective leaders during unprecedented times from his award-winning article with Bob Dent in the January Nursing Management magazine. You won’t want to miss it. Call 319.624.388 www.ValuesCoach.com

What Healthcare Leaders Can Do Now To Save Nursing

leanne@onceanurse.com (Dan Weberg, PhD, RN) — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 09:48:03 +0000

It is TIME to take action that will be felt at the bedside! We know that HC leaders are working hard (for the most part) to resolve the issues that COVID uncovered and brought to the front of their Priority Lists. Still, many leaders are at a loss as to what TO do. Many, if not most, employees believe nothing is happening and fear they have been abandoned by their leadership. My guest on this episode is Dr. Dan Weberg, Head of Clinical Innovation for Trusted Health in CA and former Guest on OAN 8/3/2020. THIS show is about a Blog that Dan wrote for the Medcity News, July 8, 2021, called “Why the Nursing Profession is in Crisis and What We can Do to Save It.” Dan discusses the state of HC Bedside Nursing and 4 actions that Hospital CNO’s could do NOW to improve trust and provide rest for exhausted healthcare employees. Some of his ideas include: Prioritize nurses in distress AWAY from the bedside; Create CAREER Planning around what the Nurse wishes to do; DROP the Hero label and focus on substantive culture changes; and RETHINK Nurse staffing (our current system never worked and is NOT working now). Learn new options. Please enjoy and share widely!

Dan Weberg, PhD, RN

Dr. Dan Weberg, an expert in nursing, healthcare innovation & human-centered patient design, has clinical experience in ED, Level 1 trauma nursing centers & academia. He is the Head of Clinical Innovation for Trusted Health, the staffing platform where he drives product strategy & changes attitudes about innovation in the healthcare workforce. Dan had 7 years at Kaiser Permanente, where he was an executive in nursing innovation, research, & technology strategy across eight regions, 38 hospitals, & 60,000 nurses. He helped found the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. Dan is on the faculty at The Ohio State University College of Nursing & multiple innovation fellowship programs. He is on the editorial board for Nursing Administration Quarterly, has authored 24 peer-reviewed articles & 2 textbooks, including Evidence Based Innovation Leadership for Health Professions and Leadership in Nursing Practice. He can be reached at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-weberg-phd-rn-6195894/

How To Regain the Trust of Nurses Everywhere

leanne@onceanurse.com (Leanne Meier, BSN, RN, Melanie Marshall) — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 17:42:49 +0000

Leanne's guest on this episode is Melanie Marshall. Melanie has had multiple roles as a military veteran, public servant, service delivery executive, business coach, and leadership advisor. Her passion and value come from sharing how to develop and improve organizations by co-designing better experiences for the people and teams working in them.

You can download the first chapter of Melanie's book TRUST on her website: https://melaniemarshall.com.au/trust-the-book#362335e9-6b0d-4bdb-8458-4f2e0080c322

We invite you to share this podcast with friends and colleagues!

Nurse Leaders 2020 Gains, Losses, Learnings - Part 2

leanne@onceanurse.com (Leanne Meier, BSN, RN) — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 20:00:00 +0000

This episode continues the conversation with Dr. Chris Recinos, CEO and founder of Nurse Leader Network. The 2020 pandemic was monumental for nurses and health leaders around the world. While it highlighted the great importance of nurses in the provision of healthcare,, it also revealed how broken our current healthcare systems are. Your host, Leanne Meier, and Dr. Recinos reveal the specifics of doing and maintaining Self Care. Chris shares an exercise she uses with her clients, and guides listeners on how to align your actions to what your dreams truly are. Together, we have an opportunity to change the structure of healthcare to a healthy and functional system, prepared to win over the NEXT onslaught!

BIO: Dr. Chris Recinos is the CEO and founder of Nurse Leader Network, and Tikidas, an educational platform for nurses. She is also the creator of the mental health app for teens, Hello, Harmony. Her former roles include Chief Nurse Executive for Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center, Deputy Nurse Executive for the Veterans Administration and a variety of academic, nurse practitioner and registered nurse roles. She also advocates policies that promote prevention of suicide.
https://www.nurseleadernetwork.com

Nurse Leaders 2020 Gains, Losses, Learnings - Part 1

leanne@onceanurse.com (RN, Leanne Meier, BSN) — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:00:00 +0000

This episode is the first of a series of podcasts with incredible CNO’s and Nurse Leaders who exemplified respect, courage and support to nurses in their hospitals. We need to shine a spotlight on how to do this “Right” even in a world Pandemic. This is a fast-paced, packed show with down-and-dirty real pandemic issues, mistakes, innovations and new ideas for the future. The stories that have been told up to this time have, to a large extent have been about massive failures of large healthcare organizations, who have not respected or supported nurses over the past decades and found they had NO idea what TO do to truly help their staff. Dr. Chris Recinos is about as REAL as a nurse leader can possibly be. She is what I call a “Nurse’s Nurse”. She tells us the behind-the-scenes efforts of leaders who were doing impossible preparations/slash support of which MOST staff had NO idea was happening. This episode is a handbook of HOW to lead from the front and taking into consideration the humanity of the people across her system, while doing the same for the nurse leaders surrounding her. PLEASE LISTEN, SHARE, and TALK with others about this show. Listen Next week to Part 2 of the discussion I recorded with Dr. Recinos.

Dr. Chris Recinos is the CEO and founder of Nurse Leader Network, and Tikidas an educational platform for nurses. She is also the creator of the mental health app for teens, Hello, Harmony. Her former roles include Chief Nurse Executive for Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center, Deputy Nurse Executive for the Veterans Administration and a variety of academic, nurse practitioner and registered nurse roles. In her spare time, she can be found advocating for suicide prevention policies.
Contact Dr. Recinos by email at chris@nurseleadernetwork.com or visit her website at nurseleadernetwork.com for more information and links to social media accounts.

Caring By The Numbers

leanne@onceanurse.com (RN, BSN, Leanne Meier) — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 08:00:00 +0000

Join your host, Leanne Meier, and her guest and long-time colleague, Dr. John Nelson, as they discuss the significance of using science and mathematics to understand caring as an intention. Discover how gripping science and research can be, when paired with the passion of caring and can be aligned to actually realize the quadruple aim. Leanne and John sound the alarm for all leaders to leverage the rich amount of data gained, through the pandemic stories of healthcare providers and support individuals who lived it, to do true predictive analytics and avoid the likelihood of another pandemic ravaging the world as did Covid-19 in 2020. Whatever your career or role, you will be inspired by Leanne and John's passion and gain critical insights that are relevant to us all.

Transforming Healthcare: The Exponential Power of Nurses

leanne@onceanurse.com (RN, Leanne Meier, BSN) — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:00:00 +0000

In this episode you will meet four of my former guests, who have melded organically to form a Mastermind Group. We share a passion and commitment to help Nurses Transform Healthcare.

Kim Evans, APRN, has 20+ years of experience leading her own Nurse-led Integrative Medicine Clinic. Her recent book titled "Transforming Healthcare: Healing You, Me and our Broken Disease-Care System" provides valuable insights.

Dr. John Silver engineered an economic Public Utility Model that cuts in half the current cost of the U.S. healthcare system, with far better outcomes.

Kathleen Bartholomew is an international speaker, who has written many books on Nurse culture and communication systems. She has crafted our passion into words.

Melissa Cortez, an ICU nurse for over ten years, spent 2020 as a COVID ICU Travel Nurse. She brings to vivid life the realities for nurses in this dysfunctional healthcare structure.

Who better to fix our healthcare system than nurses with this type of passion! Do you have this passion? Join us by going to https://NursesTransformingHealthcare.org and let us know what you want to participate in this Mission!

NURSES: A Call to Health!

leanne@onceanurse.com (RN, BSN, Leanne Meier) — Tue, 6 Jul 2021 09:00:00 +0000

The beloved radio show, Once a Nurse, Always a Nurse, is back as a weekly podcast! Join your host, Leanne Meier, as she introduces you to nurses transforming healthcare, a new initiative that recognize nurses as the leaders in fixing the broken healthcare system.