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This special episode was recorded live at the Atrium Health Virtual Nursing Summit in December 2020. Hear from a few of our exceptional Chief Nurses as they talk about their past, present and the future of nursing.
The Pearl is Advocate Health's new innovation district. Learn more about the Pearl and the vision for innovation in Advocate Health and for Charlotte in this episode.
August is Civic Health month, and in that spirit, we bring you a lively conversation with Dr. Kimberly Gordon, co-founder of Healing Politics. This organization is built with an aim to arm nurses with tools to increase their civic engagement, from simply voting to running for office. We know you will be impressed and inspired. Learn more about Healing Politics here: Healing Politics | Inspire. Motivate. Recruit. Train.
In this short episode, you meet Meredith Wallace, RN, sepsis coordinator as she discusses the importance of timely, appropriate sepsis care.
When something doesn't go as expected in our nursing care, how do we know if the standard of care was followed? Was generally acceptable practice used? This episode takes a deep dive into a nursing event peer review process in place at Atrium Health, part of Advocate Health.
Recorded live at the Advocate Health Nursing Summit during nurses week, this episode features guidance and conversation around the use of social media.
Eden Lee, RN lives in 2 worlds as a nurse and an actress. Listen to this insightful conversation about how she balances both dreams.
Jaclyn Duncan, RN shares details of a research study on preparing nurses to support family presence in resuscitation.
This short bonus episode features our Code Lavender program. Specifically, a grant-funded expansion of code lavender to ambulatory spaces. The conversation features Patara Parham, Deanca Crouch, and Zach Fulbright.
This is a conversation with Dr. Betty Jo Rocchio, Advocate Health's enterprise Chief Nursing Officer. This conversation talks about the now, near, and far of nursing.
Dr. Whitney Bradshaw and Dr. Fran Charlton share an improvement project done in the ED, aimed at improving the quality of life and care for patients who stay in EDs for long periods. This was Dr. Bradshaw's DNP project.
In this burst, Dr. Carmen Shaw shares insights from her published article,ADifferent Mindset fora Different Culture: Sustaining the Next-Generation Workforce
In this burst you can hear about Navicent Medical Center's experience with doll therapy, along with an entreprenurse who aspires to make doll therapy broadly available .
In this episode, we hear from four of Advocate Health's ultimate advocates - the CNS team.
Day 2 at the ANCC Magnet and Pathway Conference delivered some great conversations! We hope you enjoy!
Carmen and Stephanie attended the annual ANCC conference - along with 13,000 other nurses. This is part one of the interviews done while on site, and it's filled with great energy and insights!
We are trying something new - offering some shorter bursts of information in between our longer episodes. Carmen and I hope you like this format! In our first burst, here from MaryAnn Moon as she talks a little about what a CNS role is, as a teaser to an upcoming longer episode. Let us know what you think. Steph
Carmen and Stephanie talk about some of the lessons learned this year in our previous episodes, and some of our plans for future episodes.
At Advocate Health, each of our large care regions has a President of Nursing position. In this episode, you'll hear from our presidents about their role in professional governance and leadership.
This episode features the 3 male chief nurses of Advocate Health in a candid dialogue about men in nursing and leadership.